The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 30319

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9969

Shelfmark:

mssHM 30319

Title:

Flores historiarum, and other historical works

Author:

Paris, Matthew, 1200-1259

Matthew Paris WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Aleyn, Richard

Richard Aleyn WIKIDATA

Bryd, Thomas

Thomas Bryd WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1400 and 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 108 : parchment ; 182 x 246 mm

Former Owner(s):

Thorpe, Thomas, 1791-1851

Thomas Thorpe WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Battle Abbey

Battle Abbey WIKIDATA

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Matthew Paris' Flores historiarum, along with the Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri, Correspondence between the Roman emperor Lucius and King Arthur, notes on the history of England and other works. Written in England in the early fifteenth century. The first work copied by Richard Aleyn, cellarer of Battle Abbey, 1459-63, and the third by Thomas Bryd, cellarer, 1436-38. Evidently bound together...
Span folios: ff. i- vi verso (contemp. parchment) + 1-108v. Support: Parchment. Manuscript written over a period of time, each article (except ff. 105v-106v and 106v-107) by a different scribe. First three works on a quire of 6 leaves.
Part 1. ff. i-iii verso, 54 long lines, frame ruled in crayon, written by Richard Aleyn, cellarer of Battle Abbey, 1459-63, in a littera textualis for the text and in a littera cursiva for the commentary. 2-line initials, slashed initials within the text, paragraph marks and rubrics, all in red.
Part 2. f. iii verso, on lines ruled in ink for this text, written in a littera textualis formata; space reserved for a 2-line initial, initials within the text washed in yellow or brownish-pink.
Part 3. ff. v-vi verso, 2 columns of 26 lines ruled in ink with pricking in the inner margin, written in a littera textualis formata by Thomas Bryd, cellarer of Battle Abbey, 1436-38. 2-line blue initial and 1-line initials of the saints' names washed in color, usually in brownish-pink, but some in green or yellow on f. vi verso.
Part 4. ff. 1-107. Layout: 1-38 42(ff. 25-26, center bifolium) 54(ff. 27-30, the 2 outer bifolia) 62(ff. 31-32, center bifolium) 72(ff. 33-34, center bifolium) 8-128 132(ff. 76-77, center bifolium, now misbound; should precede f. 75) 1410 158(through f. 94) 168 176. Quires signed in crayon with roman numerals in the lower margin of the first leaf recto, [1]-17; the first quire with leaf...
Part 4. Decoration: Opening initial, f. 1, 4-line gold with light green infilling and floral spray, frame in lower and outer margin of colored segments and sparse leaves, around which a snake is entwined, reaching upwards for a parrot, in an unskilled style; similar initials on ff. 72v, 73, 95. 5- to 3-line initials, blue only up to f. 11 included, then in alternating red and blue, then red...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/23/2012.
Work bound together at least by the time it was given to Battle Abbey by John Newton, cellarer, 1457-59, and abbot, 1463-90. Inscriptions, mid-15th cent., on ff. v and 108, "Liber monasterii sancti martini de bello ex dono [f. 108: domini] Iohannis Nuton Abbatis cum signo IN" followed by a leaf flourish. Newton also owned a Brut Chronicle, now University of Chicago, Joseph Regenstein Library...

Keyword:

sketches

manuscripts (documents)

Battle Abbey

Great Britain

World history

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862201

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:51799/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens