Vox clamantis and other Latin poems (DS9882) (Q43650)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18621132, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862113, mssHM 150)
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Vox clamantis and other Latin poems (DS9882)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18621132, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862113, mssHM 150)

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    Vox clamantis and other Latin poems
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    Illuminations (paintings)--England--15th century
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    Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
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    Great Britain--History--Richard II, 1377-1399--Poetry
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    Gower, John, 1325?-1408--Portraits
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    between 1400 and 1450
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    Extent: ff. 194 : parchment ; 158 x 230 mm
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    Title supplied by cataloger.
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    Support: Parchment.
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    Script: Textura.
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    Layout: 14 2-258(first leaf of quire 1 and last leaf of quire 25 are stubs and appear to have been used as pastedowns); inner bifolium of quire 16 has been reversed, transposing ff. 119-120. Catchwords in center lower margin, enclosed in brown ink frames on quires 2-5, and in a blue and red ink frame on quire 22 (f. 171v). Quire 2, the first text quire, signed with a plus sign and roman...
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    Decoration: On f. 13v, a 3/4 page miniature, 135 x 105 mm., depicting Gower as an archer in aristocratic dress, shooting an arrow at the world, which is divided into sections representing water, earth and sky, and surmounted by a cross and banner; iconographically related to Glasgow, University Library, Hunterian T.2.17 (59), f. 6v; London, Brit. Lib., Cotton Tiberius A. iv, f. 9v; and Oxford...
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    Other Decoration: 5- and 4-line parted red and blue initials, infilled with leaf designs, with red, blue and pale olive flourishing on cascade borders; 3- and 2-line blue initials with red pen flourishing.
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    Acknowledgments: We thank Kathleen L. Scott for the iconographic information linking this manuscript with those in Glasgow, London and Oxford.
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    Assigned Date: s. XV1.
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    Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/16/2012.
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    Earl of Ailesbury sale, London, 21 November 1687, p. 85 n. 91 to James Sotheby, who signed his name on f. 4; also on f. 4 "I 4 2200[?]." Armorial bookplate of C. W. H. Sotheby on the front pastedown, with the note "Bought at Lord Burgleys sale 1702 for L. 1-2." Col. H. G. Sotheby sale, Sotheby's, 24 July 1924, lot 96 with plate of f. 13v to A. S. W. Rosenbach for Henry E. Huntington.
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