Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Richardson 44

Source

Harvard University Library

Library

Houghton Library, Harvard University

Shelfmark

• MS Richardson 44

Biblissima authority file

• https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q252912

Language

• Middle English

Title

• Life and martyrdom of Saint Katherine virgin and martyr
• Þhe lyf and martirdom of seynt kateryne virgyne and martir : manuscript, [ca. 1425-1450]

Agent

• Preferred form

  • Christian Samuel Kalthoeber (17..-18..)

  Role

  • Binder

  Original form

  • Kalthoeber, Christian Samuel (active 1780-1817)

  Biblissima authority file

  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q253033

• Preferred form

  • John D. Denman

  Role

  • Former owner

  Original form

  • Denman, John D.

  Biblissima authority file

  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q253146

• Preferred form

  • John Duncalf (1783-1836)

  Role

  • Former owner

  Original form

  • Duncalf, J. Rev

  Biblissima authority file

  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q253147

• Preferred form

  • Henry Hucks Gibbs (1819-1907)

  Role

  • Former owner

  Original form

  • Gibbs, Henry Hucks (1819-1907)

  Biblissima portal

  • https://portail.biblissima.fr/en/ark:/43093/pdata537dd49a00e4045e11752ef14682b14ad4293f0a

  Biblissima authority file

  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q6832

• Preferred form

  • Charles Hurt (1782-1852)

  Role

  • Former owner

  Original form

  • Hurt, Charles (1782-1852)

  Biblissima authority file

  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q253026

• Preferred form

  • Charles Towneley (1803-1876)

  Role

  • Former owner

  Original form

  • Towneley, Charles

  Biblissima authority file

  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q253031

• Preferred form

  • John Towneley (1731-1813)

  Role

  • Former owner

  Original form

  • Towneley, John (1731-1813)

  Other form

  • John Townley
  • John Towneley (1731-1813)

  Biblissima portal

  • https://portail.biblissima.fr/en/ark:/43093/pdatad736e095c31507fdde3b979bd129f329e1f0b004

  Biblissima authority file

  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q9733

• Preferred form

  • T. Triphook

  Role

  • Former owner

  Original form

  • Triphook, T.

  Biblissima authority file

  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q253221

Description

• Physical Description:
  64 leaves, bound : vellum ; 23 cm.

  Summary:
  Life of St. Catherine of Alexandria in 30 chapters and short prayers.

  Notes:
  Written in anglicana formata script in 1 column of 27 lines; 1 foliate initial on burnished gold ground with border, smaller burnished gold initials with sprays, and numerous colored initials in red and blue with pen flourishes; headings in red. Written in England.
  Formerly part of a now-dispersed compendium of saints' lives (Huntington Lib., HM 115; Cambridge St John's College N. 16 and N. 17)
  Letter of William Blades, 24 Apr. 1858, concerning manuscript is mounted before the text.
  Bound in blue morocco, by Kalthoeber.
  In a tray case, 26 cm.
  MS Richardson 44. Houghton Library, Harvard University.

  Subjects:
  Catherine, of Alexandria, Saint

  Form / Genre:
  Manuscripts, Medieval-England-1400-1450.

Place

• Preferred form

  • England (United Kingdom)

  Original form

  • England

  Other form

  • Angleterre
  • Angleterre (?)
  • Angleterre.
  • Angleterre ?
  • Anglaterra
  • Inglaterra
  • Engeland
  • Angleterre (Salisbury ?)
  • Anglaterra (Salisbury?)
  • Inglaterra (Salisbury?)
  • England (Salisbury?)
  • [Oxford?]
  • [England]
  • England, Norwich?
  • England, Canterbury, St. Augustine's Abbey?
  • England, Cornwall?
  • England, St. Albans?
  • England, North?
  • England, York?
  • England, Witham?
  • England, Winchester or St. Albans
  • England, Reading or Leominster
  • England, Cirencester?
  • England, Sherborne?
  • England, Worcester?
  • England, Bury St. Edmunds?
  • England, Tewkesbury?
  • England, East Anglia?
  • England, Peterborough?
  • England, Mercia?
  • England, Canterbury, Christ Church?
  • England, Canterbury, St. Augustine's?
  • England, Winchester?
  • England, Oxford?
  • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
  • England and Netherlands
  • England, Canterbury?
  • England, West Midlands?
  • England, London?
  • England, Crowland?
  • England, Wessex?
  • England, Reading?
  • England, Northeast?
  • England, Southeast?
  • England, Ely?
  • England, Winchester or Hereford?
  • England, Salisbury?
  • England, Oxford or Salisbury
  • German (but made in England)
  • England, South East (?)
  • England. Peterborough (?) or Lincoln (?)
  • Hereford?, England
  • England, Durham ?
  • England, Durham?
  • England, probably Durham
  • England, Oxford (?)
  • England, possibly Oxford
  • England (?Oxford)
  • England, Durham (?)
  • England, London/Westminster
  • Unknown, possibly London and Cambridge
  • Royal Chancery, London; Cambridge
  • Engeland (?)
  • England (II)
  • I. England
  • [Engeland]
  • see more

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Rights

• Houghton Library, Harvard University
  

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• https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:7516814

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• https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990098824610203941/catalog