The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1123
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9664
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 1123
- Title:
- Book of Hours, use of Rome
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- France
- Date:
- between 1440 and 1460
- Language:
- Latin and French
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. 178 : parchment ; 122 x 170 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909
- Note:
- Book of Hours, use of Rome, written in France towards the middle of the fifteenth century, for use in Paris, to judge by the saints in the calendar. The Hours of the Virgin are in the use of Rome; the Office of the Dead is unidentified.
Span folios: ff. 1-178v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 112 28 34 4-68 76(to f. 54) 8-128 138(+2, f. 96) 148 156(-1, cancelled by the scribe) 16-228 236. Ruled space, 90 x 56 mm; 16 long lines ruled in pale red ink. Written in a liturgical gothic book hand.
Decoration: Twelve large miniatures by or certainly related in style to the Master of the Horloge de Sapience; on f. 173v, s. XVI, a sketch of a female saint (Margaret?) standing on what appears under ultra-violet light to be a large animal. 3-line initials on these folios in white-patterned blue on a cusped gold ground, with trilobe leaf infilling; similar 4-line initials for the Obsecro te...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/10/2009.
Two modern erased inscriptions, possibly of ownership, on f. ii verso and f. 1, the latter beginning "Edw . . . C . . .". Belonged to Robert Hoe: Cat. pp. 53-54; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1912, pt. III, n. 2068 to G. D. Smith. Source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861889
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:48177/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
