Liber Uricrisiarum (DS9894) (Q43686)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18621260, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862126, mssHM 505)
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Liber Uricrisiarum (DS9894) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18621260, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862126, mssHM 505) |
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Daniel, Henry, active approximately 1379
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Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
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between 1450 and 1475
15. century
1450Gregorian
1475Gregorian
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Extent: ff. 134 : paper ; 240 x 343 mm
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Title from printed catalog.
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Support: Paper.
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Script: Anglicana script with some secretary characteristics.
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Layout: 1-412 512(+ 11, f. 60) 6-1012 1112 12 (? 1 leaf remains). Quire and leaf signatures in letters, a-m, and arabic numerals ("m i" on f. 134); quires also numbered in extreme outer corner of first leaf recto by a later hand. Catchwords towards inner margin in red frames or underscored in red or ink of text; those on ff. 36v, 109v, 121v do not match following leaf, but text apparently...
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Watermark(s): Couronne similar to Briquet 4846, Genoa 1465.
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Other Decoration: 7- to 2-line red initials with blue flourishing in quires 1-3, 5, 9; similar initials but with flourishing in the ink of the text in quires 6-8; spaces reserved in quires 4 (f. 45v) and 12 (f. 134v.
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Five diagrams in red and black ink: f. 17, a circular diagram of the winds; f. 60v, on an added parchment leaf, a circular diagram for determining the dominical letter and leap year (the English verses cited above mention a thread which presumably was once fastened through the hole at the center of the diagram); f. 62v, a circular chart with the planets and the signs of the zodiac; ff. 64v and...
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Assigned Date: s. XV3/4.
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/27/2012.
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The book was apparently copied for Richard Dod (possibly the barber surgeon of London mentioned by C. H. Talbot, Medicine in Medieval England, London 1967, p. 187) whose name appears in the first rubric. The scribe was John Vynt, a ward and clerk for Richard Dod. On f. 60v, s. XV/XVI, "Richard Minne Pretium 5 s." Sold by John Denley, a London bookdealer, to Sir Thomas Phillipps in 1826...
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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