The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1134

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9674

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1134

Title:

Book of Hours, use of Rome

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Flanders

Flanders TGN

Date:

between 1440 and 1460

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin and French

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. i + iii + 224 + ii + i : parchment ; 90 x 122 mm

Former Owner(s):

Ives, Brayton, 1840-1914

Brayton C. Ives WIKIDATA

Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909

Robert Hoe III WIKIDATA

Note:

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.

Keyword:

books of hours

illuminations (paintings)

manuscripts (documents)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861899

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:48693/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens