(Q43596)
Statements
between 1440 and 1460
15. century
1440Gregorian
1460Gregorian
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Extent: f. iii + 78 + iii : parchment ; 117 x 170 mm
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Title from printed catalog.
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Support: Parchment.
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Script: Anglicana formata.
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Layout: 1-98 106. Catchwords, some in brown or red ink frames; 21 long lines, ruled in lead with top and bottom 2 lines full across; pricking visible in the 3 outer margins.
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Span folios: ff. 1-78v.
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Other Decoration: Opening initial, f. 1, 10-line letter I, in gold on green and pink cusped ground with sprays of colored kidney leaves, green tendrils and gold motifs (damaged). 3- and 2-line initials in blue with red flourishing; ladders on f. 45v for the ascent to Heaven or descent to Hell in red and in ink of the text.
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By the same hand as London, Brit. Lib. Add. 10052 and Add. 21202, also copies of the Speculum Christiani, and textually related to HM 124.
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Assigned Date: s. XVmed.
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 3/9/2012.
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Written in England in the middle of the fifteenth century by a scribe who produced 2 other known copies of this text. Ownership notes in the volume: ff. 33 and 68, s. XVI, "Willelmus"; ff. ii and 1, s. XVII-XVIII, "Sa. Rooper"; f. i, s. XVIII, "JGL." Erasure of possession note on f. iii verso. Sotheby's, 11 June 1923, lot 89A to Barnard. Acquired by Henry E. Huntington, ca. 1924, evidently...
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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