The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 52435

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DS ID:

DS9985

Shelfmark:

mssHM 52435

Title:

Commentary on the Pauline epistles

Author:

Ambrosiaster

Ambrosiaster WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1130 and 1140

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 129 : parchment ; 260 x 340 mm

Former Owner(s):

Doheny, Estelle, 1875-1958

Estelle Doheny WIKIDATA

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Ambrosiaster's Commentary on the Pauline epistles written in England at Winchcombe Abbey ca. 1130-1140, by two scribes.
Span folios: ff. 1-129v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-158 168(- 6 after f. 126) + 2 leaves of a later quire. Quires counted in roman numerals in the center of the last leaf verso, [I]-XIIII on quires 1-14, and XIX-XX on quires 15-16; these 2 quires also signed C-D in the center of the first leaf recto. Ruled in dry point with top first and third (or occasionally second and fourth) lines and...
Decoration: Four opening initials with scrollwork in the text section copied by the first scribe: f. 1 (prologue; somewhat damaged by damp), 24-line, in green, blue and red, inhabited by monks; f. 1v (Romans), approx. 26-line, but extending into the lower margin and cropped at the bottom, in pen outline without color, biting lions and foliage; f. 54 (1 Corinthians), 31-line, in green, blue and...
Written by two scribes, the first of whom is the same scribe who copied the Bede now Oxford, Bod. Lib., Douce 368 (see N. R. Ker, English Manuscripts in the Century after the Norman Conquest, Oxford 1960, pl. 24). The two manuscripts were also decorated by the same artist (see A. Heimann, "A Twelfth-Century Manuscript from Winchcombe and its illustrations: Dublin, Trinity College, MS 53," JWCI...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/23/2012.
This book was still at Winchcombe under the direction of Richard Kidderminster (abbot, 1488-1525), when it received its present binding. Said in the literature (Dawson's typescript description [1950]; Doheny catalogue 1955; Bond and Faye 1962; Christie's sale catalogue 1987) to have belonged to Sir John Prise, a commissioner for the visitation of the monasteries in 1535 and 1539. This...

Keyword:

figure initials

manuscripts (documents)

grotesques

Bible. Epistles of Paul

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862217

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:51618/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens