The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 51848
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9984
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 51848
- Title:
- Sermons by Johann Herolt and Peregrinus, de Opole
- Herolt, Johann
- Place:
- Germany
- Date:
- between 1450 and 1499
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. 243 : paper ; 205 x 285 mm
- Note:
- Title supplied by cataloger.
Iohannes Herolt's Postilla discipuli super epistolas dominicales et de sanctis secundum sensum litteralem and sections from Herolt's Sermones discipuli super evangelia dominicalia et de sanctis secundum sensum litteralem, along with Peregrinus de Oppeln's Sermones de tempore et de sanctis. Written in Germany in the second half of the fifteenth century.
Span folios: ff. 1-243v. Support: Paper. Watermark(s): Tête de boeuf similar to Briquet 14871 or 14873. Layout: Gatherings mainly of 12 leaves; catchwords in center of lower margin in script of text. 2 columns of 45-52 lines, ruled in dry point. Written in a careful cursive script. Marginal finding notes in the hand of the scribe. Contemporary (?) foliation in arabic numerals through f. 227.
Decoration: Major initials, 4- to 11-line, in red or green with infilling, often of both colors, in void design, some with sketched profile faces; minor initials, 4-line, alternating plain red and green; 1-line initials within text slashed in red; paragraph marks and rubrics in red.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/23/2012.
Manuscript may have belonged to a Dominican house, as the two identified authors are of that order. On f. 1, early modern ownership note of the Benedictine monastery of St. Peter and St. Paul in Bregenz, Austria. Also on f. 1, signature of Alexander Valpy. Given to the Huntington Library by Mrs. Julian Binstock in 1985. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862216
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52804/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
