The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1154
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9701
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 1154
- Title:
- Book of Hours, use of Paris
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- France
- Date:
- between 1450 and 1499
- Language:
- Latin and French
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. i + 136 + i : parchment ; 103 x 148 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Church, Elihu Dwight, 1835-1908
- Note:
- Book of Hours written for use in Paris in the second half of the fifteenth century.
Span folios: ff. 1-136v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-26 3-98(through f. 68) 10-128(through f. 92) 13-178 186(-5, 6). Catchwords have occasionally survived cropping and appear in the script of the text in the center lower margin. Ruled space, 90 x 57 mm; 16 long lines, ruled in pale red ink. Written in a gothic book hand.
Decoration: Five large miniatures above 4 lines of text. Seven smaller miniatures, 50 x 38 mm., possibly by a different artist set in the left corner of the text block. 3-line initials in white-patterned blue on gold grounds with colored trilobe leaf infilling; 2- and 1-line initials in gold on dark pink grounds with blue infilling or vice versa; ribbon line fillers in the same colors...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/16/2009.
Names of early owners on the back pastedown: Manon dargilliere, francoise dargilliere. A sixteenth century owner was apparently Marie de Rebergues, whose name is stamped on the cover. A cancelled note on f. i identifies a seventeenth century owner as Anne Sa[?] Gaultier of Clermont, who obtained the book from her great-grandmother. Belonged to James Dix of Bristol; his sale, Sotheby's, 11... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861929
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:49678/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
