The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1130

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9611

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1130

Title:

Book of Hours, use of Paris

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

middle of the 15th century

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Latin and French

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 189 leaves : parchment ; 165 x 115 (86 x 56) mm

Former Owner(s):

Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909

Robert Hoe III WIKIDATA

Note:

Parchment, ff. i (modern paper) +ii (parchment) + 189 + ii (parchment) + i (modern paper). 1¹² 2⁸ 3⁶(+ a leaf in the second half) 4-10⁸ 11⁶(through f. 89) 12-22⁸ 23⁴ 24⁸. 15 long lines, ruled in pale red ink; pricking visible in the lower margin. Catchwords, usually cropped, but sometimes appearing in the inner lower corner of the last verso, usually written in a bâtarde hand, and once in a...
Written in France in the middle of the fifteenth century. Written in a gothic book hand in 2 sizes.
Twelve large illuminations in arched compartments with serrated tops, above 4 lines of script; the outer borders contain black ivy sprays with gold foliage, thin blue and gold acanthus leaves placed at the corners, various flowers and strawberries. The miniatures are: f. 28 (Hours of the Virgin), Annunciation; f. 40v (Lauds), Visitation; f. 53 (Prime), Nativity; f. 60 (Terce), Annunciation to...
An engraved book plate on f. i verso with the monogram "RN"[?]. Belonged to Robert Hoe; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1912, pt. III, n. 2070 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=b1848992

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:48491/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens