The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 47405
Images provided by hosting institution via
Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9980
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 47405
- Title:
- De vita et moribus philosophorum
- Burlaeus, Gualterus, 1275-1345
- Artist:
- Fastolf Master, active 1420-1460
- Place:
- England
- Date:
- between 1440 and 1460
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. 104 : parchment ; 140 x 198 mm
- Note:
- Gualterus Burlaeus' (i.e. Walter of Burley's) De vita et moribus philosophorum written in the middle of the fifteenth century in England, or perhaps in France where it may have received its historiated initial and marginal spray.
Span folios: ff. 1-104v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-138. Catchwords in lower right corner. 27 long lines ruled in red ink with the top 2 lines and the bottom line full across; single vertical bounding lines; pricking occasionally visible in the 3 outer margins. Written in a bâtarde hand.
Decoration: Opening historiated initial, 9-line, in white-highlighted pink on a gold ground with thin blue, rust and green acanthus leaves and spiky sprays in Continental style along the inner margin; in the center of the initial, a philosopher lecturing to his students, by the Master of Sir John Fastolf. 2-line blue initials with red flourishing; alternating blue and rose-colored paragraph...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/23/2012.
In England from an early date, as shown by the distinctly English decoration of the 2-line blue initials, and by the finding notes in the margins in an English hand. The only other copies of English provenance noted by Stigall are Cambridge, Trinity College O.2.50 (1154), Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), Temple University, Ms. 567 and Vatican, Reg. lat. 7147. On f. ii, "Hic liber est meus/ Testis... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862212
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:51744/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
