The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1101

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9661

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1101

Title:

Book of Hours, use of Rome

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Artist:

Master of Philippe of Guelders, active 1495-1510

Maître de Philippe de Gueldre WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

between 1440 and 1515

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 98 : parchment ; 158 x 245 mm

Note:

Book of Hours, use of Rome, written in France; the main text in the early sixteenth century with several miniatures created in the middle of the fifteenth century added.
Part 1. Span folios: ff. 5-93v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 14(ff. 4-7) 28(+1, f. 8) 312(+3, f. 19) 44 512 64 712(+3, f. 52, and 12, f. 61) 84(+1, f. 64, and 3, f. 66) 912 104 1110(-2 leaves in the second half?; ff. 86-93, with stitching between ff. 90-91). One catchword survives, f. 79v, in a small formal cursive script. Ruled space, 160 x 83 mm; 30 long lines, ruled in pale red ink; pricking...
Part 1. Decoration: Nine full page miniatures of which 6 are on the versos of inserted singletons, usually blank on the recto. In the calendar a narrow strip at the top of the folio encloses the 2 signs of the zodiac, while the monthly occupations are below. On every page, except where there are full page illuminations, traced geometric borders with acanthus leaves, naturalistic flowers, and...
Part 2. Span folios: ff. 1-4, 94-98. Parchment. The original leaves are trimmed down to precisely and only their decorated surface and glued to the versos of the former front pastedown and front flyleaves, and to the rectos of the former back flyleaves and back pastedown of the host manuscript; the miniatures are in arched compartments above 4 lines of text, 100 x 75 mm.
Part 2. Decoration: Nine large miniatures. The miniatures are attributed by E. König (Französische Buchmalerei um 1450: der Jouvenal-Maler, der Maler des Genfer Boccaccio und die Anfänge Jean Fouquets (Berlin 1982) 254) to the artist of Paris, B.N. fr. 135-136 (by typographical error, this manuscript given as HM 1141).
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/10/2009.
Belonged to Sidney Herbert, 14th Earl of Pembroke (1853-1913); his sale, Sotheby's, 25 June 1914, n. 109 with plates of ff. 19v-20 and one of the added miniatures, f. 2v, to G. D. Smith. Source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.

Keyword:

books of hours

illuminations (paintings)

manuscripts (documents)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861886

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:46050/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens