The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1087

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9657

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1087

Title:

Book of Hours, Sarum use

Book of hours

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Flanders

Flanders TGN

Date:

between 1440 and 1460

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. ii + 147 + ii : parchment ; 145 x 205 mm

Former Owner(s):

Caryll, John, 1625-1711

John Caryll WIKIDATA

Thacher, John Boyd, 1847-1909

John Boyd Thacher I WIKIDATA

Note:

Book of hours, Sarum use, written on the Continent (Bruges?) in the middle of the 15th century for English use; Ithamar and Paulinus in the calendar may indicate Rochester as the destination.
ff. 1-147 verso. Support: Parchment. Layout: 12(contemporary flyleaves) 26 3-48 52(+1, f. 25) 6-118 126(through f. 81) 13-148(through f. 97) 15-188 194(+5, f. 134) 208 21 (? ff. 143-145) 222(contemporary flyleaves). Ruled space, 115 x 70 mm; 20 long lines, ruled in pale red ink, the top line full across. Written in a gothic book hand.
Decoration: Twenty-nine large miniatures above 7 or 8 lines of text in arched compartments with serrated tops, with borders of black vine spray, thin multicolored acanthus leaves, flowers and gold motifs. Historiated initials, 6-line, with bracket borders and narrow gold and color strip along the length of the text, often with gold-scroll backgrounds, for the suffrages and the Hours of the...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/10/2009.
The figure of a man kneeling before pope and emperor (f. 45v) may be intended to represent the owner of the book. The signature "Elizabeth Wyndesor" in an early sixteenth century hand on f. ii may be that of Elizabeth Blount, wife of Andrew Windsor; the same name occurs in a volume of Lydgate's poems (Oxford, Bod. Lib., Hatton 73, ff. 1v, 122 and 123) where an "Elyzabeth Wyndesore" is said to...

Keyword:

books of hours

Belgium

Fifteenth century

illuminations (paintings)

manuscripts (documents)

historiated initials

Books of hours

Texts

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861882

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Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens