Book of Hours, use of Rome, written in the middle of the fifteenth century in Flanders or northern France, to judge by the prominence given to Vedast in the calendar; note the spellings mikiel, berthelemieu, franche, franchois. Span folios: ff. 1-224v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-26 3-58 66(through f. 42) 7-98 106 1110 128 13-166 176(+ a leaf in the second half) 188 1910 2012 216(through f. 157) 22-248 256(through f. 187) 2610 274 284(+5, f. 206) 29-308 312. Catchwords only on those quires where the second scribe was at work (7-8, 22-23, 29-31) written vertically along the inner bounding line. Ruled space, 72 x 44... Decoration: Twenty large miniatures in camaïeu gris above 4 lines of text. Major initials, 5- or 4-line, in pink or blue, on gold grounds with trilobe leaf infilling; 2-line initials are in the same style. 1-line initials in blue with pink, or in gold with black flourishing; some 1-line cadelled initials on the top line with flourishing into the upper margins, sometimes washed in yellow or... Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/13/2009. Belonged to Brayton Ives; his sale, American Art Association, New York, 5 March 1891, n. 632. Belonged to Robert Hoe, Cat. (1909) pp. 37-38; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1911, pt. I, n. 2133 to G. D. Smith; G. D. Smith Cat. 1 [1911] n. 105 and Cat. [2? 1912?] p. 2 to Henry E. Huntington in April 1912.
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