The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1156
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9703
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 1156
- Title:
- Book of Hours, use of Paris[?
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- France
- Date:
- between 1400 and 1415
- Language:
- Latin, with the calendar in French
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. iii + ii + 141 + ii + iii : parchment ; 126 x 178 mm
- Note:
- Book of Hours, use of Paris[?], written in the early fifteenth century in France.
Span folios: ff. 1-141v. Support: Parchment. Layout: Collation impracticable, but appears to be in gatherings of 8. Ruled space, 95 x 58 mm; 17 long lines, ruled in pale red ink. Written in a bâtarde script in two sizes according to liturgical function.
Decoration: Only one miniature survives; the remaining 12[?] were apparently cut out, as indicated by the loss of text at the beginning of each section, by the presence of some stubs at those points and by the offset of color onto the presumed facing pages. The miniature was apparently over-painted in the late fifteenth century. 3- and 2-line initials in white-patterned blue on burnished gold...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/17/2009.
Source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861931
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:50887/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
