The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1125
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9666
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 1125
- Title:
- Book of Hours, Sarum use
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- Flanders
- Date:
- between 1440 and 1460
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. i + iii + 168 + iii + i : parchment ; 145 x 212 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909
- Note:
- Book of Hours, Sarum use, written in the middle of the fifteenth century in Flanders or northern France for export to England.
Span folios: ff. 1-168v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 16 24 3-48 54(through f. 30) 6-128 132(through f. 88) 14-228(through f. 160) 238. One catchword survives in a cursive script in the lower margin of f. 96v; quires and leaves signed in letters and roman numerals with a cross marking the first folio in the second half of the quire. Ruled space, 110 x 74 mm; 19 long lines ruled in pale red ink...
Decoration: Twenty-seven large miniatures, in the style of the Master of the Gold Scrolls. Major initials, 4-line, in white-patterned blue or pink with trilobe leaf infilling against a cusped gold ground, or ground of the other color with the infilling only in gold; 2-line initials in gold against parted pink and blue grounds with sprays of a few gold leaves and a flower at either end; 1-line...
On f. ii verso, a rectangle of cleaner parchment with holes around it, as though something (a pilgrim's badge?) had once been attached, 72 x 55 mm.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/11/2009.
A coat of arms (16th century?) has been added on f. 30v; per pale 1 azure a chevron or between three dogs' heads sable langued and collared gules; 2 quarterly, 1 and 4 azure three fish in a bend proper, 2 and 3 argent three escallops gules; above the arms, a stoat proper; below them, a fish or; the whole encircled by a chapelet of carnations. Belonged to Robert Hoe, Cat. (1909) pp. 34-36; his... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861891
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:48524/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
