The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 27523

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9964

Shelfmark:

mssHM 27523

Title:

Livre des proprietes des choses

Author:

Bartholomaeus, Anglicus, active 13th century

Bartholomew Anglicus WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

between 1400 and 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

French

French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 277 : parchment ; 290 x 380 mm

Note:

Livre des proprietes des choses, a translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus' De proprietatibus rerum into French by Jean Corbichon. Written in France, possibly Britanny, in the first half of the fifteenth century.
Span folios: ff. 1-277v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 110(-1) 2-358 366(-6). Catchwords in the hand of the text in the lower right margin; quire signatures in black ink in the lower left corner of the first recto: c-z and aa-oo (a and b presumably cropped); traces of quire and leaf signatures following the same sequence, in red ink in the lower right corners of leaves: f. 12, b.iiii; f. 84...
Decoration: Nineteen miniatures introducing each book, framed by simple burnished gold bands, with backgrounds often as feathery gold or silver rinceaux against black or dark pink grounds; opening miniature, f. 1, the width of both columns, ca. 200 x 160 mm., divided into 4 compartments; the roundel placed at the center of the 4 compartments contains a coat of arms; full border of black ink...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/21/2012.
The first owner was a member of the Laval family, whose coat of arms is in the roundel on f. 1: or, on a cross gules 5 escallops argent, semé of alerions azure (Rietstap, vol. 4, pl. 33). On f. I, shelf mark or notarial mark composed of a large flourish or paraph and the number "cinq," found on manuscripts of the library of the Château d'Anet, sold in Paris in 1724; this manuscript [n. 98] in...

Keyword:

miniatures (paintings)

illuminations (paintings)

manuscripts (documents)

coats of arms

Natural history

Encyclopedias and dictionaries

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862196

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:49920/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens