The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1165

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9609

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1165

Title:

Book of Hours, use of Rome

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

beginning of the 16th century

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Latin and French

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 158 leaves : parchment ; 155 x 102 (96 x 57) mm

Former Owner(s):

Firmin-Didot, Ambroise, 1790-1876

Ambroise Firmin Didot WIKIDATA

Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909

Robert Hoe III WIKIDATA

Note:

Parchment, ff. ii (modern parchment) + 158 + ii (modern parchment). Quire structure difficult to determine as many leaves are singletons joined to "conjunct" leaves by tabs; collation often relies upon modern binders numbering of the quires. 1-26 34 46(through f. 22) 5-64 7-86 94 10 (ff. 47-53, but lacking 1 leaf before f. 51) 11 (ff. 54-63, but lacking 1 leaf before f. 62, and misbound: f. 57...
Written in the early sixteenth century in France; the litany and the suffrages indicate Tours. Written in a bâtarde script, the main body of the text in one hand. A second scribe appears to have been responsible for most occurrences of the suffrage of All Saints (after each hour in the hours of the Virgin), and for the short hours of the Cross and the Holy Spirit; he often copies only one side...
Three large miniatures apparently missing, for the openings of the hours of the Cross, of sext and of compline (before ff. 51, 62 and 77). Nine large miniatures survive, usually surrounding 5 (but occasionally 6 or 4) lines of text, enclosed by painted gold architectural or picture frames, and set against a rust-colored ground. The miniatures, with subjects in large scale in the foreground in...
Sold in 1854 by Lamarche of Dijon to Ambroise Firmin Didot (1790-1876); his sale, Paris, 12 June 1882, n. 21 to Lortic. Belonged to Robert Hoe; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1912, pt. III, n. 2069 to G. D. Smith. Precise source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.

Keyword:

books of hours

manuscripts (documents)

Books of hours

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1844831

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:53309/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens