The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 41537

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9975

Shelfmark:

mssHM 41537

Title:

Verbum abbreviatum

Author:

Petrus, Cantor, approximately 1130-1197

Peter Cantor WIKIDATA

Place:

Northern France

Northern France TGN

Date:

between 1200 and 1215

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 98 : parchment ; 190 x 259 mm

Former Owner(s):

Hornby, Charles Harry St. John, 1867-1946

St John Hornby WIKIDATA

Abbey, J. R. 1896-1969

John Roland Abbey WIKIDATA

Note:

Peter the Chanter's Verbum abbreviatum written in the opening decades of the thirteenth century (with letter unions, but still written above the top line), possibly at the Cistercian abbey of St. Mary at Cambron.
Span folios: ff. 1-98v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-118 1210. 2 columns of 42 lines, ruled with lead point; double bounding lines, the top, middle and bottom three horizontal lines full across; pricking in outer margins. Written in a well-formed early gothic book hand, with the top line in chancery style. Chapter numbers in the outer margin, but not entered in the text by the rubricator. The...
Decoration: Opening initial, 6-line, parted red and blue with red and brown floral filigree; chapter initials alternating in red and blue, occasionally with conservative pen scroll work; initials in green ink, ff. 41v, 43v, 45v (Salum corrected to Malum), 46v. Notes to the rubricator occasionally found in the margins.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/23/2012.
The volume belonged to the Cistercian abbey of St. Mary's and bears the thirteenth century ex libris of the abbey: "Liber beate Marie de Camberone" on f. 1; "de Camberone" is entered in the lower recto margin every few leaves throughout the volume; on f. 98v, 15th century inscription, "de camberone beate marie, Ihesus Maria" in red. This manuscript is possibly to be identified with item 61 in...

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

marginalia (annotations)

Theology

Catholic Church

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862207

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52927/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens