The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1159

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9706

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1159

Title:

Book of Hours, fragment

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

England?

England TGN

Date:

between 1400 and 1415

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin and English

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. iii + 10 + iii : parchment ; 127 x 170 mm

Former Owner(s):

Huth, Henry, 1815-1878

Henry Huth WIKIDATA

Note:

Fragment (the ending quire and leaves) from a Book of Hours written probably in England, although the border foliage on f. 1 resembles the work of northeastern France.
Span folios: ff. 1-10v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 18 + 2 leaves; no catchword or signatures. Ruled space, 115 x 73 mm; 22 long lines, ruled in pale red ink. Written in a gothic book hand.
Decoration: Opening initial in patterned dark pink on a cusped gold ground with infilling of colored trilobe leaves; U-shaped frame around text of colored and gold strips; reversed C-shaped bracket border of black ivy spray, with red and blue acanthus leaves at the upper right corner, and a dark pink and green burst in the lower right corner; multicolored flowers and gold motifs. 2-line...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/17/2009.
In the library of Henry Huth and in his catalogue, The Huth Library (London 1880) vol. 4, p. 1231; sold by his son, Alfred H. Huth, Sotheby's, 8 July 1918, pt. VII, lot 6248 to G. D. Smith. Acquired from Smith by Henry E. Huntington in September 1918.

Keyword:

books of hours

manuscripts (documents)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861934

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:50968/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens