The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 46554

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9979

Shelfmark:

mssHM 46554

Title:

Peter of Poitiers' Distinctiones super psalterium and anonymous distinctions

Author:

Peter, of Poitiers, approximately 1130-1205

Peter of Poitiers WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1200 and 1215

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 89 : parchment ; 157 x 220 mm

Former Owner(s):

Mostyn, Thomas, Sir, 1704-1758

Thomas Mostyn WIKIDATA

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Peter of Poitiers' Distinctiones super psalterium and an anonymous collection of distinctions written in England in the opening years of the thirteenth century.
Span folios: ff. 1-89v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 18(+9) 2-118, signed on last leaf verso at 2 different times in roman numerals, I-VIII; occasional catchwords. 44-45 (art. 1) and 38-39 (art. 2) long lines. Ruled in lead point and brown crayon; double bounding lines; art. 1 in 2 columns of ca. 28 mm. width for the lemmata and ca. 110 mm. for the text. Prickings visible in outer margins; in...
Decoration: Plain initials in red, occasionally in blue or with blue penwork. Art. 1: distinctions noted in red in schematized form in the left margin, except for ff. 18v-20, 49v-65v, where they are left unfinished. Art. 2: f. 66, 3-line initials alternating in grey-blue, ochre and green. On ff. 74, 82-84, 2- and 1-line initials alternating in red and green; on ff. 74v-75, mainly in green, the...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/23/2012.
Inside the front cover, "P:B:" and "Ms. No 216." Belonged to Thomas Mostyn, with his armorial bookplate and signature, the date 1744, and the number 75 on f. ii; many of the Mostyn manuscripts were collected by Sir Thomas Mostyn (1535-1617). Mostyn shelfmark in pencil on inside front cover, "H/4 C." Mostyn sale, Sotheby's, 13 July 1902, lot 31. Sotheby's, 11 July 1978, lot 39 to the Huntington...

Keyword:

sketches

manuscripts (documents)

Bible. Psalms

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862211

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:51719/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens