The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 64538
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9639
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 64538
- Title:
- Book of Hours, use of Sarum, in Latin with English additions
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- England
- Date:
- between 1425 and 1450
- Language:
- Latin with English additions
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. 103 : parchment ; 80 x 108 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Kerrich, Thomas, 1740-1814
- Note:
- Title supplied from printed catalog
Support: Parchment.
Script: Formal gothic script.
Layout: 19 long lines, ruled in brown ink, the top two and bottom two horizontals extending the full width of the page, the single vertical lines extending the full height of the page.
Music: On ff. v verso - vi recto, music on 4-line staves.
Span folios: ff. 1-103v.
Other Decoration: Seven-line initials, enclosing semi-naturalistic or stylized foliage and flowers, on a gold ground, with a four-sided border, at the start of three major texts (ff. 7, 37, 68); similar seven-line initials but with a three-sided border to vespers, the Psalms of the Passion, and the 15 Oes (ff. 29v, 79, 87v); similar six-line initials, with a two-sided border, at the start of...
Assigned Date: s. XV2/4.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/5/2009.
Written in England; the saints in the calendar suggest a Worcester connection. English texts added soon afterwards; inscribed, s. XV, with the names "hubert / han[...] [or har...?]" (f. i), "Jefris"(? or Joh(an)nis) (inner face of back board), "Heywod" in calligraphic script (f. vi verso); traces of rectangular and circular/polygonal sewn-in devotional images (?) (ff. iv verso, vii verso... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861864
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:53009/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
