The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 39872

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9974

Shelfmark:

mssHM 39872

Title:

Booke of good condicions

Author:

Legrand, Jacques, approximately 1365-1415

Jacques Legrand WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1450 and 1475

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

English

English WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 122 : parchment ; 156 x 224 mm

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
An English translation of the Livre de bonnes moeurs, itself a paraphrased translation of Jacques Legrand's Sophilogium. Written in England in the third quarter of the fifteenth century.
Span folios: ff. 1-122v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-38 48(-4 and 5 after f. 27 with loss of text) 5-158 164. Catchwords in the center or right-center of the lower margin; quires and leaves signed in letters and roman numerals. 23-24 long lines, ruled in pale red ink, with the top and bottom 2 lines full across; slash pricking in the 3 outer margins. Written in a bastard secretary script.
Decoration: Spaces of 16 and 10 lines reserved on ff. 59v and 102, presumably for miniatures; the spaces of 16, 17 and 9 lines on ff. 3, 49v and 77v may also have been intended for miniatures, although Parts 1, 2 and 4 begin on the following pages (3v, 50, 78). 5- to 3-line initials in blue and pink with white designs on gold grounds, ink spray border including acanthus and strawberries...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/23/2012.
On the front pastedown, bookplate of the Rev. Henry Campbell, chaplain to the 18th Earl of Shrewsbury; bequeathed by him in 1874 to Beaumont College, Old Windsor, Berkshire (see M. F. Bond, "Some Early Books at Beaumont College," Berkshire Archaeological Journal 54 (1954-55) 53-55). Sale of the Beaumont manuscripts, Christie's, 28 June 1973, lot 49. Acquired by the Huntington Library from...

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Conduct of life

Ethics

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862206

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:50947/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens