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Description
[Arma Christi]: Incipit: The vernacul y honowr hym & the/ that the made thrugh his preute ... Explicit: and lest schall without hend/ Ihesu crist vs þethere send Amen. Parchment roll with the Arma Christi, a poem of religious contemplation with illuminations of emblematic representations of Christ and his Passion. Written in England in the second half of the fifteenth century. Span folios: 2 membranes. Support: Parchment. Layout: 148 lines of verse, very faintly ruled in ink. Written in a mixed hand with anglicana and early secretary forms. Decoration: Twenty-four illustrations colored in pink, green and gold, in an unskilled style, and generally similar to those shown by Morris for Brit. Lib. Add. 22029: 1, the Vernicle with the face of Christ in the center of a large cloth, geometrically divided; 2, knife for the Circumcision; 3, pelican in its piety; 4, thirty pieces of silver; 5, lantern; 6, sword and stave; 7, rod; 8, a hand with strands of Christ's hair and the hand that slapped him; 9, cloth to blindfold Christ; 10, dice and the unseamed coat; 11, two scourges; 12, crown of throns; 13, pillar placed sideways across the roll, and entwined with ropes; 14, standing Christ holding the cross; 15, three nails; 16, vessel; 17, rod with sponge; 18, spear; 19, ladder; 20, hammer; 21, tongs; 22, the face of Christ in the center with a Jew spitting at him from either side; 23, cross with three nails, placed sideways across the roll; 24, sepulchre with Christ's body lying in it. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/20/2012. Cataloged from existing description: C. W. Dutschke with the assistance of R. H. Rouse et al., Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, 1989). Kept in a green silk bag with a drawstring; 19th century. HM 26054. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Jesus Christ--Passion Arma Christi--Early works to 1800 Scrolls (Information artifact) England 15th century. (aat) Illuminations (Painting) England 15th century. (aat) Manuscripts (documents) (aat)
Source
Manuscripts, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
Acquired by the Huntington Library at Sotheby's, 11 April 1961, lot 139. (CSmH)
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