The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1135
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9675
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 1135
- Title:
- Book of Hours, use of Rome
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- Italy
- Date:
- between 1500 and 1515
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. iii + 211 (+ f. 27 bis) + iii : parchment ; 55 x 77 mm
- Note:
- Book of Hours, use of Rome, written in the early sixteenth century, certainly after 1471, when Sixtus IV was elected to the papacy (see f. 137v), and probably in Tuscany to judge by the saints in the calendar.
Span folios: ff. 1-211v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 110 28 310(+1, f. 19) 4-1110 1210(+1, f. 109) 13-1410 1510(+1, f. 140) 16-2010 2110(+1, f. 201). Catchwords written vertically along inner bounding line. Ruled space, 43 x 30 mm; 12 long lines ruled in dry point. Written in a humanistic script, using brown ink, which has flaked badly on the flesh side.
Decoration: Four inserted singletons, blank on the recto with a full page miniature on the verso, and a historiated initial on the facing recto. Two other openings with similar borders and historiated initials, but without the full page inserted miniature. Individual hours in the Office of the Virgin after matins with a medallion in the lower margin with the appropriate subject. Secondary...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/13/2009.
The coats of arms of the first owners are, f. 19v, azure, on a bend or three mullets azure (possibly the Ginori family of Florence) and, f. 20, gules, four crescents argent 1, 2, 1. Placed by G. D. Smith in a sale by Anderson, New York, 12 December 1917, n. 243 to G. D. Smith. Smith Catalogue [n. 14, 1916?] n. 140 to Henry E. Huntington. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861900
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:50883/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
