The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1140

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9680

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1140

Title:

Devotions, in Dutch

Place:

Netherlands

Netherlands TGN

Date:

between 1485 and 1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Dutch

Dutch WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. ii + iii + 166 + i + ii : parchment ; 113 x 168 mm

Former Owner(s):

Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909

Robert Hoe III WIKIDATA

Note:

Devotional texts in Dutch written at the end of the fifteenth century in northwestern Netherlands, possibly for use in the diocese of Utrecht, as suggested by the saints in the calendar and litany.
Span folios: ff. 1-166v. Support: Parchment. Layout: Collation beginning with the first contemporary flyleaf, 1-28 38(+1, f. 14) 48(+4, f. 26; + 6, f. 28; + 10, f. 32) 58(+2, f. 35; +5, f. 38; +10, f. 43) 68(+4, f. 48; +6, f. 50) 78 88(+1, f. 63) 98(+ a leaf in the second half) 10-118 128(+6, f. 102) 136(2 central "bifolia" composed of singletons) 1410 158(+1, f. 122; -9, cancelled by scribe...
Decoration: Eighty-two miniatures by several artists corresponding generally to the divisions in scribal hands. With scribe i, 14 full page miniatures on inserted singletons, blank on the recto, often interrupting the text, and not part of the orginal plan of decoration. With scribe ii, the rosary, 55 (+ 1 miniature for the Jerome suffrage to fill out the quire) integral miniatures by a second...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/15/2009.
The owner portrait on f. 112 is of a woman. Birth and death notices of the Van Nuissenborch family of Dordrecht, from 1598 to 1609, on the front and back flyleaves; on f. ii recto-verso, 18 coats of arms, identified, and with tinctures labelled, of which the first is that of Nuyssenburg of Dordrecht (Rietstap, vol. 4, pl. 299). Belonged to Robert Hoe; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1911, pt. I...

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

coats of arms

illuminations (paintings)

Devotional literature

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861905

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:48917/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens