The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 58285

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9634

Shelfmark:

mssHM 58285

Title:

Book of Hours, use of Sarum, in Latin, English, and Czech (the "Felbrigg Hours")

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1390 and 1410

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin; English; Czech

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. i + 64 + i : parchment ; 150 x 215 mm

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Formal gothic script.
Layout: Leaf signatures in quire 3; catchwords in decorative cartouches (ff. 12v, 18v, 20v, 36v, 44v, 51v), usually with caricature human faces in profile; 22 long lines; quires 2-7 ruled in brown ink, quires 8-9 in pale red ink, except ff. 63-64 ruled in bright red ink.
Span folios: ff. 1-64v.
The absence of David, Chad, Winefride and Bridget from the calendar might suggest a date not long after 1391. At least four full-page miniatures and seven large historiated initials accompanied by four-sided borders are missing, of which offsets survive e.g. on f. 49v.
Assigned Date: s. XIV/XV.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/4/2009.
Belonged probably to someone closely related to Simon de Felbrigg (d. 3 December 1442), and his first wife, Margaret of Teschen (d. 27 June 1413), daughter of Przemyslaw Noszak, kinswoman and Lady of Honour of Anne of Bohemia, Richard II's wife, who married Simon ca. 1386, as suggested by several of the obits added to the calendar, by the fact that the first miniature (now missing, see below...

Keyword:

books of hours

manuscripts (documents)

Books of hours

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861858

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52759/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens