The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1169
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9715
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 1169
- Title:
- Book of Hours, use of Langres
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- France
- Date:
- between 1485 and 1499
- Language:
- Latin, with calendar in French
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. ii + 113 (with 14 bis and 49 bis) + iii : parchment ; 136 x 196 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909
- Note:
- Book of Hours written at the end of the fifteenth century in France, for use in Langres, as indicated by the liturgical forms of the hours of the Virgin and the office of the Dead, and by the saints of the calendar and the litany.
Span folios: ff. 1-113v (with 14 bis and 49 bis). Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-26 38(through f. 19) 4-58 68(-3, after f. 37) 7-88 92(through f. 59) 10-158 166. Ruled space, 110 x 69 mm; 20 long lines, ruled in pale red ink; pricking occasionally visible along the outer margin. Written in two sizes of a bâtarde script, according to liturgical function.
Decoration: Eleven large miniatures above 4 lines of text, enclosed by simple painted gold frames; the outer borders usually compartmentalized. 4-line initials in white-patterned blue or orange-tinged pink on a burnished gold ground with trilobe leaf infilling; 2- and 1-line initials in burnished gold on alternating dark pink or blue grounds with infilling of the other color; ribbon line...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 10/13/2009.
Belonged to Robert Hoe, Grolier Club (1892) n. 22; Cat. (1909) pp. 71-72; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1912, pt. IV, n. 2346 to G. D. Smith. Precise source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861943
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52557/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
