The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1127
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9668
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 1127
- Title:
- Book of Hours, in Dutch
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- Netherlands
- Date:
- between 1450 and 1499
- Language:
- Dutch and Middle Dutch
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. ii + 220 + ii : parchment ; 125 x 176 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909
- Note:
- Book of Hours in Dutch written in the second half of the fifteenth century; the decorations in this manuscript associate it with those produced in the convent of St. Agnes in Delft.
Span folios: ff. 1-220v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 110 2-58(through f. 42) 68 710(through f. 60) 88(-1, before f. 61) 9-118(through f. 91) 12-138(through f. 107) 14-228 238(+9, f. 188) 24-278. Catchwords in a small cursive hand in the inner right corner; ff. 198-199 signed "2" and "3," being their positions in quire 25. Ruled space, 110 x 76 mm; 21 long lines, ruled in light brown ink; slash...
Elaborate penwork decoration of the type produced at St. Agnes in Delft. Five major initials, 9- or 8-line, in parted red and blue with void white design on a blue penwork ground and infilled by red penwork which surrounds 6-8 roundels of gold or colored flowers; full borders of the same precise red and blue penwork along both sides of a narrow pink strip which sprouts restrained stylized...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/12/2009.
Belonged to Robert Hoe Cat. (1909): p. 28; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1912, pt. III, nn. 2066 and 2067 (described as if two manuscripts) to G. D. Smith. Precise source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861893
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:48476/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
