The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 28174

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9965

Shelfmark:

mssHM 28174

Title:

Lenten sermons and other works

Author:

Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298

Jacobus de Voragine WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1385 and 1399

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 184 : parchment ; 195 x 280 mm

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Jacobus de Voragine's Lenten sermons, the ghost story of Guido de Corvo and other unidentified sermons, written in England at the end of the fourteenth century; possibly of monastic origin.
Span folios: ff. 1-184v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-148 158(+ a half leaf added between 7 and 8, f. 120) 16-228 238(8 was the pastedown). Catchwords written horizontally across the inner bounding line, often in a red-touched frame; quire and leaf signatures consist of letters and roman numerals. The first quire, lettered "a," is missing. Quires 5-8 use a double system, the quire being shown...
Decoration: Initials, 2-line in blue with red penwork; alternating red and blue paragraph marks; red used for slashed initials within the text, underlining, and framing marginalia. Descenders of the bottom line usually extended with flourishes. Marginalia, as text-finders, in the hand of the scribe; manicules sometimes decorated in red (e.g. ff. 132v, 138). Marked "corrected" in the center...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/21/2012.
On f. 184v, notes in an early sixteenth century hand: "Sciant presentes et futury quod ego Iohannes Wodedale" and "Willelmus Sponar possessor huius libri est. Si quis furetur cito per collum pendetur." On the back flyleaf: "feria 4ta xii d; feria 5ta vi d; feria sexta xvi d." A 16th cent. price "1 lib. 8 sol.," on f. i verso identified in the Sotheby catalogue (see below) as in the same hand...

Keyword:

Manicules

manuscripts (documents)

marginalia (annotations)

Spirits

Sermons, Latin

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862197

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:51735/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens