The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1133

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9673

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1133

Title:

Book of Hours, use of Paris

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

between 1500 and 1515

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin and French

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. i + 165 + i : parchment ; 100 x 138 mm

Note:

Book of Hours, use of Paris, written in France in the early sixteenth century.
Span folios: ff. 1-165v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-26 38(+1, f. 13) 48(+5, f. 26) 5-68 76(ff. 47-52) 88(+1, f. 53) 9-108(through f. 77) 11-138 148(ff. 102-109) 158(ff. 110-117) 16-208(through f. 157) 218. Ruled space, 86 x 52 mm; 17 long lines, ruled in pale brown ink. Written in a gothic book hand, apparently by a second scribe on ff. 158-165v.
Decoration: Three full page illuminations on the versos of inserted singletons, blank on the recto; large miniatures above 4 lines of text; some 9- and 8-line illuminations; in the calendar, miniatures of the monthly occupation on the recto, and the zodiac sign on the verso. 3- and 2-line initials, white-patterned blue with colored trilobe leaves or balls as infilling against a burnished gold...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/13/2009.
On the front pastedown is the modern armorial bookplate of Matthew Ellison, Hadfield; with the manuscript is an American book dealer's slip, numbered 90, identifying the binder as Deseuil.

Keyword:

books of hours

illuminations (paintings)

manuscripts (documents)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861898

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:48941/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens