The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1129
Images provided by hosting institution via
Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9670
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 1129
- Title:
- Book of hours, use of Paris, in French
- Catholic Church
- Artist:
- Quarton, Enguerrand, active 15th century
- Place:
- Southern France
- Date:
- between 1440 and 1460
- Language:
- French
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. ii + 160 (+ 142 bis) + iii : parchment ; 125 x 180 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Poor, Henry W. 1844-1915
- Note:
- Book of Hours, use of Paris, written in French in southern France in the middle of the fifteenth century, evidently for a woman: on f. 137, the feminine form "ta servante," and on f. 138, the kneeling figure of a woman.
Span folios: ff. 1-160v (+ 142r-v bis). Support: Parchment. Layout: Collation beginning at f. 2: 112 26(through f. 19) 38(-1) 48(-7) 58 68(-6) 78(-5) 8-108 114(through f. 83) 12-178 186(through f. 137) 196 208 2110. Catchwords in the script of the text in the center lower margin; leaf signatures visible on quire 12, a-g. Ruled space, 103 x 62 mm; 16 long lines, ruled in pale red ink; ruled in...
Decoration: Four large illuminations missing after ff. 19, 32, 46 and 52 (offsets of border designs visible on the versos). Nine large illuminations remain, in slightly rounded compartments. The illuminations, by 3 artists, the first of which has been identified as Enguerrand Quarton whose illuminations are on ff. 57, 62, 72, 78 (some repainting?), 81, 138. Major initials, 4- and 3-line, in...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/12/2009.
Belonged to Henry William Poor whose ex libris is on the front pastedown; his sale, Anderson, New York, 7 December 1908, pt. II, n. 769 to G. D. Smith. Precise source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861895
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:48556/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
