The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1155

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9702

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1155

Title:

Book of Hours, in Dutch

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Netherlands

Netherlands TGN

Date:

between 1440 and 1460

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Dutch

Dutch WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. i + 142 + i : parchment ; 93 x 130 mm

Former Owner(s):

Poor, Henry W. 1844-1915

Henry William Poor WIKIDATA

Note:

Book of Hours, in Dutch, written in the middle of the fifteenth century in the Netherlands, probably for use in the diocese of Utrecht. Later additions to the calendar show Franciscan interest.
Span folios: ff. 1-142v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 16(+1) 26 38(+1) 4-108 118(-4, excised, after f. 82) 128 138(-7, 8, after f. 99) 148 154(-1; ff. 108-110) 16-198. Ruled space, 93 x 66 mm; 20 long lines ruled in light brown ink, the top and bottom 2 lines full across. Written in a gothic script in a brownish ink; computistic notes, f. 1r-v, and calendar possibly by another person, using...
Decoration: Six major initials in parted red and blue. 4-line initials in plain blue; 2-and 1-line initials alternating red and blue; slashed initials within the text, underlined words and rubrics in red.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/17/2009.
Belonged to Henry William Poor; his sale, Anderson, New York, 12 January 1909, pt. III, n. 765 to G. D. Smith. Precise source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.

Keyword:

books of hours

manuscripts (documents)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861930

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:51129/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens