The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1171
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9717
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 1171
- Title:
- Book of Hours, use of Rome
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- France
- Date:
- between 1500 and 1515
- Language:
- Latin and French
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. ii + 177 (f. 177, former pastedown) : parchment ; 140 x 195 mm
- Note:
- Book of Hours, use of Rome, written in France in the early sixteenth century. Prayers in French added in the 17th century.
Span folios: ff. 1-177v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-46(through f. 24) 54(through f. 28) 68(through f. 36) 78 86 9-138 146(through f. 96) 15-198(through f. 136) 20-238 248(-7) 252. Catchwords written vertically along inner bounding line, usually in the hand of the text, but that on f. 128v in a noting hand; those on ff. 66v and 82v partially erased; quire and leaf signatures occasionally...
Decoration: Sixteen full page miniatures, enclosed by various styles of borders. Smaller miniatures, 7-line, usually of a saint on a green tile floor, against a brocade cloth of honor, either brick red or blue. In the calendar, 2 rectangular miniatures, one of the monthly occupation and one of the zodiac symbol, for each month. 4-line initials in shaded pink, blue or brick red on a painted...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 10/17/2009.
The first owner of the manuscript appears kneeling before the Virgin, wearing his coat of arms, on f. 37v; the same coat of arms, ensigned with the collar of the Order of St. Michael, in the lower margins of ff. 29 and 61, argent 3 lions rampant sable, on an escutcheon azure a fesse or between 6 billets or. An English[?] book dealer's slip offset onto f. i verso. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861945
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52295/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
