The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1086

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9656

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1086

Title:

Book of hours, use of Sarum

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Flanders

Flanders TGN

Date:

between 1440 and 1460

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Gothic

Gothic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. i + 177 + i : parchment ; 162 x 235 mm

Former Owner(s):

Jekyll, Joseph, Sir, 1663-1738

Joseph Jekyll WIKIDATA

West, James, 1703-1772

James West WIKIDATA

Windus, Thomas, 1778-1854

Thomas Windus WIKIDATA

Lawrence, Edwin Henry

Edwin Henry Lawrence WIKIDATA

Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909

Robert Hoe III WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Gothic.
Layout: 16 28(+1, f. 7 and 8, f. 14) 38(ff. 17-24, all singletons, with full page illuminations alternating with text pages, and joined to a "conjunct" text page) 48(ff. 25-32: same as quire 3) 58(+1, f. 33 and 3, f. 35) 68(+1, f. 43) 78(+6, f. 57) 88(+2, f. 62 and 9, f. 69) 98(+3, f. 73 and 7, f. 77) 104(through f. 84) 11-128 138(+3, f. 103) 148 152(through f. 119) 168(+1 and 2, ff. 120...
Span folios: ff. 1-177v.
Decoration: Twenty-three full page miniatures on the versos of inserted singletons (rectos are blank) by a somewhat more competent artist than the person who did the smaller miniatures. Historiated initials, 7-line, with black ink spray extensions including blue and gold acanthus, flowers, strawberries and gold trilobe leaves and dots.
Other Decoration: Major initials, occuring across from full page illuminations, 7-line, white-patterned blue against pink and gold backgrounds, infilled with lush multicolored acanthus leaves, some trilobe leaves and flowers in a style reminiscent of English work. Secondary initials, 3- and 1-line, in gold on patterned pink and blue grounds; initials within the text washed in yellow; ribbon...
Assigned Date: s. XVmed.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/10/2009.
Written in the middle of the fifteenth century, possibly in Bruges for export to England. Coat of arms placed in the lower margins of ff. 7v-8, very slightly overlapping the flowers of the border decoration: per pale, 1 argent a chevron or between 3 pheons the two in chief lying fesswise point to point and that in base erect sable; 2 or two lions combatant argent supporting a bezant. The first...

Keyword:

illuminations (paintings)

decorated initials

manuscripts (documents)

books of hours

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861881

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:45999/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens