The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1167
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9713
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 1167
- Title:
- Book of Hours, use of Amiens
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- France
- Date:
- between 1490 and 1510
- Language:
- Latin and French
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. i + 120 + i : parchment ; 132 x 190 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Heredia, Ricardo de, conde de Benahavis, 1831-1896
- Note:
- Book of Hours written at the turn of the fifteenth century for use in Amiens.
Span folios: ff. 1-120v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 16(-1) 26 38 44(through f. 23) 58 68(-4, before f. 35) 78 88(-7, before f. 53) 98(-5, before f. 58) 10-168 174. Some evidence of signatures on ff. 12-14 (?). Ruled space, 115 x 83 mm; 16 long lines, ruled in brown-black ink; some pricking visible in the outer margin. Written in a bâtarde script.
Decoration: Sixteen miniatures of mechanical execution remain, usually enclosed by square painted gold strips; outer border around the text and miniature of white and colored acanthus leaves, and various flowers on a thin wash of gold. 4-, 3- and 2-line initials as shaded ribbons or white branches against painted gold grounds infilled with naturalistic flowers; 1-line initials in painted gold...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 10/13/2009.
From the collection of Ricardo Heredia y Livermore, Count of Benahavis, whose book label with the monogram R. H. is on the front pastedown; according to a note in Spanish on f. i, Heredia believed the book to have come from the library of the Marques of Isasi; Heredia sale, Paris, 22 May 1891, pt. I, n. 85 to Tumin. Source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861941
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:50938/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
