The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1128

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9669

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1128

Title:

Book of Hours, use of Paris

Book of hours

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

between 1450 and 1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin and French

Latin WIKIDATA

French WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. i + ii + 200 + i : parchment ; 130 x 185 mm

Former Owner(s):

Church, Elihu Dwight, 1835-1908

E. Dwight Church WIKIDATA

Note:

Book of Hours, use of Paris, written in France during the second half of the fifteenth century.
Span folios: ff. 1-200v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 112 2-38(through f. 28) 48 58(+4, f. 40, text) 68 78(+4, f. 57) 86(ff. 63-72; +2, 3, ff. 64-65, a bifolium; + 8, 9, ff. 70-71, two singletons) 9-118 122(ff. 97-98) 13-248 254 262. Occasional catchwords, in the script of the text on ff. 36v, 45v and 106v, and in a bâtarde script on ff. 62v, 72v and 138v. Ruled space, 82 x 58 mm; 13 long...
Decoration: Fifteen large illuminations usually above 3 lines of text, with full borders of blue and gold acanthus leaves, flowers and various other figures. The miniatures are attributed to an associate of Maître François. Two historiated initials, with bracket borders of blue and gold acanthus leaves on f. 19v and f. 24. In the calendar, roundels at the foot of the recto depict the monthly...
Holes in the upper margins above some of the full page miniatures from protective cloths once sewn in.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/12/2009.
Priced 6,500 fr. as n. 2555 in a French bookseller's catalogue (Belin?). Belonged to E. Dwight Church; in his Catalogue . . . of English Literature (1909), vol. 1, n. 404, with plate of f. 128v. The Church collection was acquired by Henry E. Huntington in 1911.

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

historiated initials

France

Fifteenth century

illuminations (paintings)

books of hours

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861894

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Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens