The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 37539

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9972

Shelfmark:

mssHM 37539

Title:

Rosarium

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1400 and 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 154 : parchment ; 123 x 186 mm

Former Owner(s):

Johnson, Maurice, 1688-1755

Maurice Johnson WIKIDATA

Note:

The anonymous late fourteenth century Lollard collection of extracts known as the Rosarium, written in England in the first half of the fifteenth century.
Span folios: ff. 1-154v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 18(-1) 28 3-610 78 88(-1 torn out after f. 63 with loss of text) 9-138 14-1610 178 186. Catchwords enclosed in ink frames; quires signed in arabic numerals on the last leaf verso; quires and leaves signed in letters and roman numerals in the normal position. 36 long lines ruled in lead; pricking in the outer margin, with 2 holes for the last...
Decoration: First initial of each alphabetical section, 4-line, in parted red and blue with red flourishing; secondary initials, 3-line, in blue with red flourishing, sometimes including a face or grotesque (e.g. ff. 19v, 23v, 56v, 65v); alternating red and blue paragraph marks.
Occasional marginalia with additional texts, often trimmed by the binder; verses on f. 10v, added to the section Antichristus, Cum fuerint anni complete [sic] mille ducenti . . . [Walther, Initia 3617]; on f. 22v, added to the section Columbe, Grana legit volitat sociata cadavera vitat . . . [Walther, Initia 7291].
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/23/2012.
Among the erased pen trials on f. 154 is a 15th cent inscription, "Ric[ardus?] pruton." Belonged to the Lincolnshire antiquary Maurice Johnson of Ascough Hall. According to a long note in his hand, f. ii r-v, it was given to him by "Mr Ferrour de Sancto Botulpho" in 1728, and it was n. XCIX in the catalogue of Ascough Hall Library. The note also explains that the small painted medallion of...

Keyword:

grotesques

marginalia (annotations)

manuscripts (documents)

Theology

Preaching

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862204

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52508/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens