The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1100

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9660

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1100

Title:

Book of Hours, use of Paris

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Artist:

Bedford Master Workshop

Bedford Master WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

between 1440 and 1460

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin and French

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. ii + 214 + ii : parchment ; 170 x 235 mm

Former Owner(s):

Augustus Frederick, Prince, Duke of Sussex, 1773-1843

Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex WIKIDATA

Lawrence, Edwin Henry

Edwin Henry Lawrence WIKIDATA

Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909

Robert Hoe III WIKIDATA

Note:

Book of hours, use of Paris, written in the middle of the fifteenth century in France, probably Paris.
Span folios: ff. 1-214v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 112 28 38(-2, after f. 21) 4-118 126(through f. 97) 13-238 246(through f. 191) 25-268 278(-8). Catchwords in a small careful gothic script in the center of the lower margin. Ruled space, 107 x 65 mm; 15 long lines, ruled in a rather vivid pink; pricking occasionally present in the upper and lower margins. Written in two sizes of gothic...
Decoration: Nineteen large miniatures usually in arched compartments above 4 lines of text; most borders consist of a decorated wide gold band in a U-shape around both text and miniature, with an outer border of ivy vine and regularly arranged, brightly colored acanthus leaves and flowers. The miniatures and by several artists of the workshop of the Master of the Duke of Bedford. Small...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/10/2009.
Given by John Webb to Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex; in the Bibliotheca Sussexiana, A Descriptive Catalogue...of the Manuscripts and Printed Books contained in the Library of His Royal Highness, the Duke of Sussex, by Thomas J. Pettigrew (London 1827) vol. I, pt. 1, n. 129 with a plate of f. 134; his sale, Evans, London, 31 July 1844, pt. II, n. 187 to James Baker; his sale, London, 24...

Keyword:

illuminations (paintings)

books of hours

manuscripts (documents)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861885

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:45874/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens