Brooks, Edmund D. (Edmund DeWitt), 1866-1919, former owner Jones, Herschel V. (Herschel Vespasian), 1861-1928, former owner Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Manuscript. HM 51
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Description
ff. 1-378; f. 378v blank. Latin. ff. i-xii verso, Order of the Mass and lists of introits and readings for masses of the temporale, sanctorale and votive masses, followed by a table for moveable feasts and a list of the books of this bible with reference to folio numbers; ff. 1-259, Old Testament; ff. 261-318v, New Testament; ff. 319-366v, Interpretations of Hebrew Names; ff. 367-373, 3 Ezra; ff. 373v-376, additional prologues and chapter list of Apocalypse; ff. 376v-378, prayer of Manasses and additional prologues. Bible in unusual order, with 79 prologues copied in the sequence of the text and 18 added at the end: additions in other hands including readings for mass; the Psalms copied in parallel columns for the Gallican and Hebrew psalters, ending with Ps. 151. Support: Parchment. Script: Gothic. Layout: According to the division of scribal hands: i, 2 columns of 48 lines, written below top line, ruled in ink (added s. XIV); ii: 2 columns of 53 lines, written above top line, ruled in lead; iii, 2 columns of 48 lines, written below top line, ruled in lead or crayon (added s. XIII2); iv, 2 columns of 47 lines, written below top line, ruled in ink. Span folios: ff. 1-378v. Some of the texts copied in the first added section (ff. i-xii verso) suggest ownership (if not origin?) in France. Assigned Date: s. XIII1. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 2/6/2012. 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). Bound, s. XIX1/4, in English black morocco with gold tooling in Cathedral style. Sticker of Henry Sotheran and Company, London, on the front pastedown. HM 51. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Extent
ff. iii + i + xii + 378 + i + iii : parchment ; 173 x 242 mm.
Written in England (?) during the first half of the thirteenth century. Rubrics for the readings at mass ("ad usum morinensem,""secundum usum morinensis diocesis"), as well as the saints occurring on ff. i-xii verso show that at least by the time of this addition, s. XIV, the book was being used in the diocese of Thérouanne in northern France. Belonged to the Minneapolis bookseller and collector, Edmund D. Brooks; sale by Anderson, New York, 13 November 1913, n. 375 to Herschel V. Jones (1861-1928), also of Minneapolis; his sale, Anderson, New York, 29 January 1919, pt. II, n. 1070A to G. D. Smith.
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