The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1166
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9712
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 1166
- Title:
- Book of Hours, use of Rouen
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- France
- Date:
- between 1450 and 1499
- Language:
- Latin and French
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. i + 136 + iii : parchment ; 122 x 172 mm
- Note:
- Book of Hours written in the second half of the fifteenth century for use in Rouen, to judge from the liturgical use of the hours of the Virgin, and from the saints in the calendar and the litany.
Span folios: ff. 1-136v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 112 2-38(through f. 28) 4-88 94(through f. 72) 10-168(through f. 128) 178. No catchwords or signatures visible. Ruled space, 88 x 60 mm but on ff. 129-136, 90 x 65 mm; 14 long lines up to f. 128v, thereafter 16 long lines, ruled in pale red ink; pricking occasionally visible in the outer margin. Written in a gothic book hand, in two sizes...
Decoration: Seven miniatures in arched compartments with serrated tops, above 3 lines of text. 3-line initials in blue or dark pink on a gold ground, infilled with colored trilobe leaves; 2-line initials in gold on dark pink or blue grounds with infilling of the other color, and marginal sprays of black ink and gold motifs; 1-line initials in the same style, but without marginal sprays; ribbon...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 10/13/2009.
On f. i is the note "ex libris joannis baptistae de mydorge," possibly written by the same person who filled the 3 back flyleaves with birth notices of Monsieur Mydorge, sieur de Fretay, of his wife, Marie le Bossu, the date of their marriage and the birth and baptism (at the "fons de St. Paul de Paris") of their 12 children, with dates from 1511 to 1561. Monsieur Mydorge, in listing his... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861940
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:51007/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
