The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1102

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9662

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1102

Title:

Book of Hours, use of Rome

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Wydon, François

François Wydon WIKIDATA

Place:

Rome

Rome TGN

Date:

1549

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin and French

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. i + i + 85 + i + i : parchment ; 195 x 280 mm

Former Owner(s):

Urfé, Claude d', 1501-1558

Claude d'Urfé WIKIDATA

La Vallière, Louis César de LaBaume LeBlanc de, 1708-1780

Louis César de La Baume Le Blanc WIKIDATA

Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806

Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow WIKIDATA

Johnson, Manuel J. 1805-1859

Manuel John Johnson WIKIDATA

La Roche Lacarelle, Sosthène, baron de, 1816-1887

Jean Joseph Sosthène de LaRoche Lacarelle WIKIDATA

Lignerolles, Raoul Léonor L'Homme Dieu du Tranchant, comte de, 1817-1893

Raoul Léonor Lignerolles WIKIDATA

Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909

Robert Hoe III WIKIDATA

Note:

Book of Hours, use of Rome, written in Rome in 1549 by François Wydon for Claude d'Urfé, ambassador of the King of France to the Holy See. The scribe's name, François Wydon, and the place and date of copying are given in the dedication on f. 1.
Span folios: ff. 1-85v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 18(-4, 8) 28(-2, 4) 38(-6) 4-118 122. 23 long lines, also in the calendar; no ruling visible. Written space, 232 x 155 mm. The main body of the text is in an upright humanistic script.
Decoration: 24 almost full page illustrations in bistre. Full borders on every page, consisting of narrow purple bands with silver leafy tendrils; in ovals set within the top and bottom band are landscapes or ruins; in the ovals in the bands on the two sides are blue tendrils on a gold ground; square insets of color at the four corners. Initials, 6- to 2-line, in painted gold on...
The full page illustrations in the calendar for the months of February, April, May, June and November have been cut out, with consequent loss of text.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/10/2009.
Written for Claude d'Urfé, ambassador of the King of France to the Holy See; his arms appear on f. 1v, ensigned with the collar of the order of St. Michael (For a history of the d'Urfé library and a list of the surviving books, see A. Vernet, "Les Manuscrits de Claude d'Urfé (1501-1558) au Château de la Bastie," Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres: Comptes-Rendus (1976) 81-97). The...

Keyword:

illuminations (paintings)

manuscripts (documents)

books of hours

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861887

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:45902/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens