The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1141

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9681

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1141

Title:

Book of Hours, use of Bescançon

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

between 1440 and 1460

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin and French

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. iii + ii + 189 + ii + iii : parchment ; 165 x 230 mm

Former Owner(s):

Church, Elihu Dwight, 1835-1908

E. Dwight Church WIKIDATA

Note:

Book of Hours, written in the middle of the fifteenth century for use in Bescançon to judge by the Hours of the Virgin and the Office of the Dead.
Span folios: ff. 1-189v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 16 26(+7, f. 13) 38(?, ff. 14-21) 4-138 142(ff. 102-103) 15-248 256. Catchwords in center lower margin in scripts of varying degree of formality. Ruled space, 100 x 70 mm; 15 long lines, ruled in pale red ink; pricking usually visible. Written in a gothic book hand, in 2 sizes according to liturgical function; ff. 178-188, possibly by a...
Decoration: Eighteen large miniatures, by an artist who has worked on other Besançon books of hours (e.g. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum MSS 69 and 70, and New York, New York Public Library, NYPL MA 041). In the borders of the calendar, the monthly occupation and the zodiac symbol. Traced band borders in the outer margin of every page, each with a grotesque; these borders also on ff. 188v-189v...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/15/2009.
Arms on f. 5v, gules a bend argent, of the Neufchâtel family. Arms on f. 71 of Guy de La Baume, count of Montrevel (d. 1516; Montrevel is in the department of the Ain) and his wife Jeanne de Longwy, per pale, 1, or a bend indented azure (de la Baume; see Rietstap, vol. 1, pl. 145); 2, azure a bend or (Longwy; see Rietstap, vol. 4, pl. 86). Notes relating to the Rye and Longwy families for the...

Keyword:

grotesques

manuscripts (documents)

coats of arms

illuminations (paintings)

books of hours

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861906

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:48998/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens