Scale of perfection (DS9888) (Q43668)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b1862120x, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862120, mssHM 266)
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Scale of perfection (DS9888) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b1862120x, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862120, mssHM 266) |
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Hilton, Walter, -1396
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Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
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between 1440 and 1460
15. century
1440Gregorian
1460Gregorian
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Extent: ff. 84 : parchment ; 150 x 219 mm
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Title from printed catalog.
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Support: Parchment.
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Script: Anglicana with some secretary forms.
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Layout: For a tentative collation based on the surviving signatures (no catchwords) and the amount of missing text, see the full description; when complete the volume contained 159 leaves, but only 84 are now present, and bound in disordered manner. The quires are signed in roman numerals in the right corner of the first leaf recto; extant leaf signatures are "c" and "d" on ff. 23 and 24 (the...
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Other Decoration: 3- and 2-line red initials, those on ff. 29v-30 with flourishing in the ink of the text, the rest unornamented.
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The scribe may be identified as the John Clerk, monk of Hinton Charterhouse, who copied, and perhaps compiled, Cambridge, St. John's College MS E.22. The added leaf, f. 1, possibly by the same hand in a slightly rounder script.
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Assigned Date: s. XVmed.
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/16/2012.
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Written in England in the middle of the fifteenth century by John Clerk (d. 1472). Sold by Taylor to Sir Thomas Phillipps; his MS 2180 and Middle Hill stamp on f. i. Acquired privately by Henry E. Huntington through A. S. W. Rosenbach in 1923.
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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