The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1162

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9709

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1162

Title:

Book of Hours, use of Rome

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Artist:

Bening, Simon, 1483 or 1484-1561

Simon Bening WIKIDATA

Place:

Toledo?

Toledo TGN

Date:

between 1526 and 1539

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. iii + i + 162 (recte, 136) + i + ii : parchment.

Former Owner(s):

Mac-Carthy-Reagh, Justin, comte de, 1744-1811

Justin MacCarthy Reagh WIKIDATA

Beckford, William, 1760-1844

William Beckford WIKIDATA

Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton Douglas, Duke of, 1767-1852

Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton WIKIDATA

Bixby, William K. 1857-1931

William Keeney Bixby WIKIDATA

Note:

Book of Hours, use of Rome, written in Spain in the area of Toledo, as entries in the calendar indicate; feminine forms in the prayers on ff. 14, 155 and 156. The coats of arms on ff. 10v and 48v are those of Charles V and Isabel of Portugal; the book must have been made between 1526 (their marriage) and 1539 (Isabel's death); miniatures done in Flanders.
Part I. Span folios: ff. 1-136v (foliated to 162 since "15" was skipped and ff. 112-139 are missing). Support: Parchment. Layout: 110 2 (5 leaves, ff. 11-16, with the number 15 skipped in the foliation; structure unclear) 312(ff. 17-31; +2, f. 18; +5 and 6, ff. 21-22, a bifolium) 4-58 68(+1, f. 48) 78(+2, f. 58 and 7, f. 63) 88(+2, f. 68 and 7, f. 73) 98(+2, f. 78) 106(+1, f. 81; +8, f. 93...
Part II. Span folios: 17 items. Support: Parchment. Decoration: On ff. 10v (the second artist), 18v, 23v, 28 (the second artist), 34v, 48v, 58v, 63v, 68v, 73v, 78v, 86v, 93v, 98v, 111v, 140v, 151v, seventeen small miniatures in simple gold frames, probably by Simon Bening. The miniatures with their frames were painted on rectangles of parchment which were then glued to the leaves of the codex...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/17/2009.
The coats of arms on ff. 10v and 48v are those of Charles V and Isabel of Portugal, impaled; the book must have been made between 1526 (their marriage) and 1539 (Isabel's death). Belonged to Count Justin MacCarthy-Reagh of Toulouse; his sale through the Parisian bookseller De Bure in 1817, n. 396. Belonged to William Beckford with his number 2 pencilled in on f. ii; he bequeathed his materials...

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

books of hours

coats of arms

illuminations (paintings)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861937

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:51061/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens