The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 28177
Images provided by hosting institution via
Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9966
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 28177
- Title:
- Verbum abbreviatum
- Petrus, Cantor, approximately 1130-1197
- Place:
- England?
- Date:
- between 1200 and 1215
- Language:
- Latin
- Material:
- parchment
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. 37 : parchment.
- Note:
- Peter the Chanter's Verbum abbreviatum written in England[?] in the first third of the thirteenth century.
Span folios: ff. 1-37v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 18(-1) 28(-5 through 8) 3-48 58(-1 through 6) 68. Quires signed in roman numerals on the last leaf verso; catchwords in the script of the text in the corner of the inner margin. 39 long lines. Ruled in brown crayon, with double vertical bounding lines, and the first, middle and last 3 horizontal lines full across; pricking visible in the...
Decoration: Initials, usually 2-line, alternating in red and blue with plain tendrils and filigree, except on ff. 8-19 (what remains of quires 2 and 3), which are in plain red only, with no tendrils. Rubrics in a rather orange-tinged red. In the margins: notes to the rubricator, contemporary corrections to the text, and "exemplum" or "nota" marks in red, in black ink, or in crayon; three...
Back flyleaf: leaf from an early 13th century parchment manuscript. 2 columns of 33 lines, ruled with a fine brown lead point. Written in a spiky minuscule bookhand above the top line. One initial, 2-line, in green.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/21/2012.
Acquired from H. W. Edwards, Newbury, Berks. in 1965. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862198
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:51629/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
