The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1172

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9718

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1172

Title:

Book of Hours, use of St. Quentin

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

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. ii + i + 78 + ii : parchment ; 137 x 190 mm

Former Owner(s):

Church, Elihu Dwight, 1835-1908

E. Dwight Church WIKIDATA

Note:

Book of Hours written in France probably for use in St. Quentin, in the second half of the fifteenth century.
Span folios: ff. 1-78v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 16 2-98(through f. 70) 10 (ff. 71-78, of uncertain structure, stitching between ff. 74-75; ff. 75-76 constitute a bifolium; f. 77v bears the offset of a full border of black ivy spray which evidently included some blue acanthus). No catchwords or signatures visible. Ruled space, 110 x 75 mm; 22 long lines, ruled in pale red ink, except for...
Decoration: Thirteen large miniatures above 8 lines of text, all with a pinkish hue to the coloring; in some, the faces have been outlined in black ink at a later date. Some smaller miniatures. Major initials, 6- and 5-line, as white shaded ribbons, enclosing naturalistic flowers on a gold ground, the outer ground of brick red decorated in gold. On the miniature pages, where the major initials...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 10/17/2009.
Belonged to E. Dwight Church; in his Catalogue . . . of English Literature (1909) vol. 1, n. 405, with plate of f. 35v. Acquired by Henry E. Huntington with the Church collection in 1911.

Keyword:

illuminations (paintings)

books of hours

manuscripts (documents)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861946

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:48545/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens