Sermons (DS9632) (Q42900)

From DS 2.0 Catalog
Revision as of 16:12, 22 July 2024 by DigScrAdmin (talk | contribs) (‎Created a new Item)
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b1861856x, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861856, mssHM 58202)
Language Label Description Also known as
English
Sermons (DS9632)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b1861856x, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861856, mssHM 58202)

    Statements

    0 references
    0 references
    0 references
    between 1125 and 1150
    0 references
    0 references
    Extent: ff. iii + 220 + i : parchment ; 165 x 285 mm
    0 references
    Title from printed catalog.
    0 references
    Support: Parchment.
    0 references
    Script: Pregothic.
    0 references
    Layout: Mainly gatherings of 8 leaves; the 18th quire has 6 leaves (and foresees a change of scribal hand). Original quire signatures sometimes survive (e.g. quires 2-6, lower-case roman numerals between dots); late medieval quire signatures or catchwords frequently survive; 26 long lines, ruled in plummet with single vertical bounding lines the full height of the page, the first and second...
    0 references
    Written by several scribes: there appear to be changes of script after the first six lines of the main text (f. 3); at the end of quire 18 (f. 134v), and after the first nine lines and two words of quire 19 (f. 135); at f. 146v line 14 or 15; at the end of quire 23 (f. 178); and at f. 201 line 14; it may be that the volume was copied in two "halves" simultaneously, starting at quires 1 and 19...
    0 references
    Assigned Date: s. XII2/4.
    0 references
    Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/2/2009.
    0 references
    Written in England, perhaps East Anglia, possibly at or for the Augustinian Priory of St. Osyth, about 5 miles southeast of Colchester, Essex, as suggested by Sotheby's (1989) and accepted by Jeremy Griffiths, "Manuscripts in the Schøyen Collection Copied or Owned in the British Isles before 1700," English Manuscript Studies, 5 (London, 1995), 42, although there is no firm evidence for this...
    0 references
    22 July 2024
    0 references
    22 July 2024
    0 references