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ff. 1-95v: [abbreviated version of Adam of Eynsham's Magna Vita Sancti Hugonis]: Incipit: Capitulum primum, Hugo genitricis solacio tum necdum etatis metas excessisset orbatus est. Explicit: propter accessum confluentis populi magis congruere ab oriali [sic] ipsius edis regione ad gloriam dei qui vivit et gloriatur super omnia, deus benedictus in secula. Amen. ff. 95-96v: [Honorius III, Bull relating to the canonization of Hugh of Lincoln]: Rubric: Bulla specialis domini pape honorii tertii de canonizacione beatissimi et gloriosissimi Hugonis Lincolniensis episcopi. Incipit: Honorius episcopus servorum dei venerabili fratri episcopo ... Non repulit Dominus plebem suam ... Explicit: Datum viterbii xiii kal. martii Pontificatus nostri anno quarto. ff. 95-96v. [Honorius III, Bull relating to the canonization of Hugh of Lincoln]: Rubric: Bulla generalis domini pape honorii de canonizacione et translacione beati hugonis Lincolniensis Episcopi. Incipit: Honorius episcopus et cetera Universis christi fidelibus ... Divine dignacio pietatis. Explicit: Datum viterbii xiii kal. marcii Pontificatus nostri Anno quarto. ff. 95-96v. [Honorius III, Bull relating to the canonization of Hugh of Lincoln]: Rubric: Item alia bulla de translacione eiusdem. Incipit: Honorius et cetera venerabili fratri episcopo Lincolniensi ... Cum venerabile corpus beati Hugonis. Explicit: Datum viterbii Pontificatus nostri Anno 4to. Title supplied by cataloger. The Long Abbreviation by an anonymous Carthusian of Adam of Eynsham's Magni vita sancti Hugonis, along with three papal bulls by Honorius III relating to the canonization of Hugh of Lincoln written in the early years of the sixteenth century, possibly at the London Charterhouse. Span folios: ff. 1-97v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-2⁸ 3⁶ 4-5⁸ 6⁸(-7, with no loss of text) 7-12⁸ 13⁴. Catchwords in the lower margin; 32-33 long lines, ruled in rose-colored ink, the final quire in crayon; single vertical bounding lines, with the top and bottom 2 lines full across; pricking visible in the lower and outer margins. Written in a well formed bastard secretary hand with chapter headings in a smaller script. Decoration: Opening initials on f. 1 for the rubric and prologue with black strapwork, tinted in red; one top-line ascender, f. 58v, in similar style; 2-line red initials; initials within the text slashed in red. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 2/11/2012. 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 by the Dutch binder John Reynes after 1510, when he immigrated to London, and apparently before 1519, when he discontinued use of his unsigned roll tool of a dog, a bird and a bee (see J. B. Oldham, English Blind-Stamped Bindings (Cambridge 1952) An.b(3) 556) used here in conjunction with his pineapple stamp, Oldham 437. Binding in brown calf over wooden boards with evidence of 2 fore edge straps dyed pink, closing to hooks (1 remains) on edge of back cover. HM 36336. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Hugh, of Lincoln, Saint, 1140-1200 Saints--Biography--Early works to 1800 Bulls (Papal records) England 16th century. (aat) Manuscripts (documents) (aat)
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Provenance
The preparation of the parchment and the careful attention paid to quire structure, script, chapter headings and punctuation are concomitant with Carthusian origin. Its Reynes binding would point to the London house (although there is no sign of their ex-libris), or to Henry V's Carthusian foundation at Sheen. Provenance unknown until it appears in the late nineteenth century at Belton House, Grantham, in the library of Sir Adelbert Wellington Brownlow (1844-1921), whose bookplate is on the front pastedown: Rietstap , vol. 1, pl. 332 but differenced by, on the first quarter, argent, a sinister hand couped at the wrist gules and, on the escutcheon, sable, a cross engrailed argent between 4 fleur-de-lis of the same; the motto"Opera illius mea sunt." Exhibition label (of the Victoria and Albert Museum?) affixed to the front pastedown, Case 88, exhibited by Earl Brownlow.
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