The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 28561

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9967

Shelfmark:

mssHM 28561

Title:

Translation of Higden's Polychronicon, along with other translations of works into Middle English

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1485 and 1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Middle English and Latin

Middle English WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 337 : parchment ; 277 x 380 mm

Former Owner(s):

Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley WIKIDATA

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Translation of Ranulph Higden's Polychronicon into Middle English by John Trevisa, along with his translations of works by Pseudo-William Ockham, Richard FitzRalph, Pseudo-Methodius, Pseudo-Turpin and others. Written in England towards the end of the fifteenth century.
Span folios: ff. 1-337v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-48 58(+9, f. 40 bis) 6-248 3 quires missing here 25-398 408(-8, after f. 320) 418(-7, 8 after f. 325) 428 438(-5 through 8). Catchwords in the lower right margin; beginning with quire 18, additional catchwords occur variously within the quires. Quire and leaf signatures through quire 32 as letters and roman numerals, the quires marked...
Decoration: Decoration was left at varying stages of completion up to f. 138; thereafter it was abandoned entirely (except ff. 326-337v). Full borders composed of narrow gold and color strips with acanthus leaves and ink sprays ending in green leaves, flowers and gold motifs occur on ff. 1 and 88, with 5- or 4-line particolored pink and green initials, infilled with acanthus leaves and set on...
Pen trials throughout; on f. i, practice alphabets in a 16th cent. hand. Illuminated initials cut out on ff. 54v, 64v, 65.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/22/2012.
Arms of the first owner in the borders of ff. 1 and 88; on f. 1: ermine, a mill-iron sable; on f. 88: quarterly 1 and 4 the same arms as above, 2 and 3 per pale azure a lion (or a fox?) rampant argent and gules 2 lions (or foxes?) rampant argent. Miscellaneous pen trials include the following names: f. 255, in lead, 15th c., "Welby Willm"; back pastedown, "Johnn Hornywold the son off Richard...

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

coats of arms

World history

Great Britain

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862199

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:51601/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens