The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 36337

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9987

Shelfmark:

mssHM 36337

Title:

Florilegium

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1150 and 1215

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin, with one text in middle French

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 169 : parchment ; 120 x 163 mm

Note:

Florilegium, mostly theological texts, written in England in the first third of the thirteenth century. Also includes contemporary flyleaves, originating as a bifolium in a separate Missal, written in England in the second half of the twelfth century.
Part 1. Span folios: ff. 1-169 (ff. 1-3 medieval flyleaves; ff. 55r-v, 60v-61, 168-169, washed). Support: Parchment. Layout: 12(+3, added as a flyleaf) 2-78 84(through f. 55) 910(-7, 8) 10-138 142(ff. 96-97) 15-238. Quires 17-22 signed b-g in lower inner corner of the first recto. On ff. 4-54v, 25 long lines; the other texts in 2 columns of 34-35 lines; both written on the top line; ruled in...
Part 1. Decoration: On ff. 4-54v, 3- to 2-line initials up to f. 25v (thereafter uncompleted) and rubrics in orange-tinged red; in the other texts, 3- to 2-line initials, placed outside the written space, in red, dark green or light blue.
Part 2. Span folios: ff. 1-2v. Support: Parchment. Contemporary flyleaves, included in the foliation as ff. 1-2, but originating as a bifolium in a separate codex (i.e. a missal, bound here in reversed order). Written in a pregothic script. Music: Neumes on 4-line staves with C or F clef indicated.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/24/2012.
Cloth label on spine: "MS 8." Belonged to the Tollemache Library, Helmingham Hall: n. 24 in the old Helmingham catalogue; label on inside of front cover: "L.J.II.6" altered to "L.H.II.28" and "24" in pencil (for a brief history of this library, see the Sotheby catalogue, 14 June 1965, iii-viii). Acquired by the Huntington Library from Alan G. Thomas, Catalogue 28 (1972) n. 4.

Keyword:

miscellanies

musical notation

manuscripts (documents)

Bible

Christian ethics

Latin poetry

Christian life

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862219

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:51791/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens