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1. Add MS 38114-38126

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HUTH BEQUEST. The following thirteen MSS., 38114-38126, were included amoung the fifty books to be selected from his library bequeathed to the British Museum by Alfred Henry Huth, Esq. For fuller descriptions see "Cataloque of the Huth Bequest," 1912.
Scope & Content:
Bookplates: Huth Library: 19th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, Flemish, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of 13th century-15th century
Extent:
13 items

2. Add MS 38114-38115

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HUTH BEQUEST. Vols. I, II. Bible, in Latin; Vulgate version. Preceded by Jerome's Epistle to Paulinus ("Frater Ambrosius") and preface to the Pentateueh ("Desiderii mei"). The arrangement of books is regular, except that Ezra (1 Esdras) and Nehemiah are followed by the apocryphal 1 Esdras (here entitled 2 Esdras), and that Acts comes between the Pauline and Catholic ("canoniales") Epistles. In two volumes, vol. i ending with the Psalms. All the books after the Pentateuch have prefaces, excep...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
2 items

3. Add MS 38125

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Title:
Petrarch, Poems
Scope & Content:
HUTH BEQUEST. Vol. XII. Poems, in Italian, by Petrarch, viz: 1. Sonetti 1-42 and Canzoni 1-12, agreeeing with pp. 1-85 of Le Rime di Francesco Petrarca, ed. G. Mestica, 1896, except that Sonetti 2 and 3 are transposed, as in the Laurentian MS. pl. xli, n. 17. The first four lines of Son. 1 are o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

4. Add MS 38122

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Title:
Old Testament books from a Dutch History Bible, with commentary from Peter Comestor's Historia Scholastica
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains Old Testament books, from the Book of Genesis until the Book of Tobit, in a Dutch History Bible: a bible in which the biblical text alternates with commentary from the Historia Scolastica by the French theologian Peter Comestor (d. 1179). In the fifteenth century the His...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch
Date Range:
c 1440
Extent:

Parchment codex

5. Add MS 38124

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Title:
Book of Hours, use of the Humiliate Nuns
Scope & Content:
Contents: Book of Hours, use of the Humiliate Nuns, with prayers in Latin and Italian (ff. 214r-287v) and some rubrics in Italian, including prayers to or associated with Pope Gregory the Great (ff. 234v-235v), St Augustine (ff. 247r-249v, 282v), St Jerome (f. 272v-273r), St John the Baptist (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 288 folios

6. Add MS 38123

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Scope & Content:
HUTH BEQUEST. Vol. X. HOURS, etc., in Dutch. Contents: (1) Calendar. In red, Pontian (Jan. 14), Servatius (May 13), Bonifaco (June 5), Lebuin (June 25 and Nov. 12), Lambert (Sept. 17), Remy (Oct. 1), Victor and Gereon (Oct. 10), Willibrord (Nov. 7) ; pointing clearly to the diocese of Utrecht. f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 38114

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Scope & Content:
HUTH BEQUEST. Vol. I. Bible, in Latin; Vulgate version. Second half of XIII cent. Vellum; ff. ii + 328. Bible LATIN: Bible: late 13th cent. Art. Illuminations and Drawings FRENCH: Bible : miniature-initials and borders: late 13th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 38115

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Scope & Content:
HUTH BEQUEST. Vol. II. Bible, in Latin; Vulgate version. Second half of XIII cent. Vellum; ff. 422 (ff. 359, 360 blank). Bible LATIN: Bible: late 13th cent. Art. Illuminations and Drawings FRENCH: Bible : miniature-initials and borders: late 13th cent. includes: f. 333 Gilbert de La Porrèe: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 item