Supplement to the Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library. “Huntington Library Quarterly ,” 72(4), 1-101, available online via Internet Archive. The “Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library” (Vols.1-2) is a comprehensive itemized description of our holdings acquired before 1990. Both volumes of this guide are available online through the HaitiTrust Digital Library. Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library Learn how to find manuscripts in the library catalog. Titles, authors, illuminators, scribes, former owners and other agents associated with the creation or history of the manuscript have been added to the records when identified. Variations in transcriptions, letterforms and orthography should be considered when searching titles.
Medieval manuscript volumes are all represented by individual records in the library catalog. 24v. Precise source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Image credit: John Lydgate, Fall of Princes, England 15th century, HM 268 f. The materials described in this research guide consist of medieval codex volumes and illuminated rolls. Medieval deeds, court rolls, and other archival documents are described in the research guide for British Historical Manuscripts. There are important holdings of 13th-century French bibles and some 75 illuminated Books of Hours. The Huntington has a fine collection of medieval liturgical manuscripts: Bibles, missals, psalters and breviaries. that actively collects English medieval legal texts. The Huntington is one of the few libraries in the U.S.
English law is also a strength that carries into the early modern and modern British collections. Manuscripts in Middle English (1150–1500), particularly of prose and verse, are a collecting strength. This collection includes nearly 500 bound volumes of literary, historical, and religious materials, which contain about 2,000 separate texts. However, the library does hold hundreds of important manuscripts produced in Western Europe for a non-English market as well (i.e., France, Italy, the Low Countries, Germany, Spain and Portugal).
The majority of the library's medieval holdings were produced in England or Europe for the English market. The Huntington Library possesses one of the largest collections of British medieval manuscripts in the Western Hemisphere.
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