The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1138

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9678

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1138

Title:

Book of hours, use of Paris[?

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

between 1400 and 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin and French

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. ix + 150 + lxv : parchment ; 137 x 185 mm

Note:

Book of Hours, use of Paris[?], written during the first half fo the fifteenth century in France.
Span folios: ff. 1-150v. Support: Parchment. Layout: Because of the amount of missing material, collation represents the quires as they now stand (except in quires 4 and 6 where the missing conjugate of a bifolium is postulated), 16 26 38(through f. 20) 46(-1; ff. 21-25) 54(ff. 26-29) 64(-1; ff. 30-32) 78(ff. 30-40) 84(ff. 41-44) 94(ff. 45-48) 106(ff. 49-54) 114(ff. 55-58) 122(ff. 59-60...
Decoration: Only one illumination survives, that of the Office of the Dead, f. 98. Three 4-line initials and 2-line initials alternate white-decorated pink or blue set against a ground of the other color, both infilled with colored trilobe leaves on gold; 1-line initials in gold infilled in blue or pink against grounds of the other color; ribbon line fillers in the same colors; initials in the...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/15/2009.
Obtained from Sessler by Henry E. Huntington at an unknown date.

Keyword:

illuminations (paintings)

books of hours

manuscripts (documents)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861903

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:48922/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens