The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1163

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9710

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1163

Title:

Book of Hours, use of Paris

Book of hours

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

between 1450 and 1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin and French

Latin WIKIDATA

French WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. ii + 201 + ii : parchment ; 106 x 162 mm

Former Owner(s):

Church, Elihu Dwight, 1835-1908

E. Dwight Church WIKIDATA

Note:

Book of Hours, use of Paris, written in France circa 1480 for a member of the family of Malet de Graville, whose coat of arms appears in the margins of f. 62.
Span folios: ff. 1-201v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-26 3(ff. 13-16, of unclear structure; f. 13 almost certainly a singleton) 4-58 64(through f. 36) 78 88(-8, excised) 98 108(-1 and 2, excised) 11-158 164(through f. 109) 17-228 2312(through f. 169) 24-278. Most catchwords are present, written in the script of the text across the center of the lower margin, on f. 51v written vertically along...
Decoration: Fifteen large miniatures, usually above 3 lines of text in arched compartments, surrounded by full borders of blue and gold acanthus, flowers, green pears, strawberries, and a particularly large number of grotesques, frequently obscene. The miniatures are in the style of Jean Fouquet (cf. Claude Schaefer, "Recherches sur l'iconologie et la stylistique de l'art de Jean Fouquet...
Other decoration: 3-line initial on f. 22v as pink acanthus leaves against a golden acanthus leaf ground with a coat of arms as infilling; the initial on f. 97 formed of white acanthus leaves; that on f. 110 contains an image of David. Other 3-line, and the 2- and 1-line initials in maroon or blue decorated with gold leafy swirls against backgrounds of the other color, also decorated with...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 10/13/2009.
Written for a member of the family of Malet de Graville, whose coat of arms appears in the margin of f. 62 (Rietstap, vol. 4, pl. 127); added to the initial on f. 22v are the arms of the Balzac family, seigneurs d'Entragues (Rietstap, vol. 1, pl. 116); the original owners may have been Louis Malet and his wife, Jeanne de Balzac; their daughter, Anne, married Pierre de Balzac in 1505. The book...

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

grotesques

France

Fifteenth century

illuminations (paintings)

books of hours

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861938

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Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens