The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1088

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9658

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1088

Title:

Book of Hours, use of Rome

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

just before 1513].

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin and French

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. iii + i + 229 + i + iii : parchment ; 183 x 255 mm

Former Owner(s):

Morel de Vindé, Charles Gilbert Terray, vicomte, 1759-1842

Charles-Gilbert Morel de Vindé WIKIDATA

Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909

Robert Hoe III WIKIDATA

Note:

Book of hours, use of Rome, written in France just before 1513, according to the almanac for 1513-1530 on f. 1v, which ends "Dixhuit ans entiers et prochains venans".
Span folios: ff. 1-229 verso. Support: Parchment. Layout: 16(+6) 26 38 44 5 (ff. 26-29 of uncertain structure; 28, 29 appear to be singletons) 64 72(ff. 34-35, in darker ink) 88(+ a leaf in the first half) 98(+ a leaf in the second half) 106 11-188 198(+5, f. 128) 20-238 242(through f. 166) 25-318 326(+7, f. 229, the former pastedown). Ruled space, 157 x 105 mm; 18 long lines ruled in pale red...
Decoration: Thirty-seven full page illuminations in painted gold architectural frames, with 3 lines of text as if imposed by means of a label, in a style influenced by Bourdichon by possibly more than one artist. Smaller miniatures, occupying the width of the page but of varying height, serve as fillers for the space at the end of texts and often pertain iconographically to the following...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/10/2009.
The first owner's portrait appears repeatedly throughout the volume, and on f. 193 before a saint, possibly Peter. Belonged to the Vicomte de Morel-Vindé (Charles Gilbert Morel de Vindé); his sale, Paris, 1823, n. 94; in the sales of the Comte H. de La Bedoyère, Paris, 1837, n. 17 and 1862, n. 24; later in the Leboeuf de Montgermont sale, Paris, 1876, n. 58 to Léon Techener; his sale, Paris...

Keyword:

books of hours

manuscripts (documents)

illuminations (paintings)

Books of hours

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861883

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:45944/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens