The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1250

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9721

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1250

Title:

Book of Hours, undetermined use

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

between 1485 and 1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. iii + 121 : parchment ; 115 x 170 mm

Former Owner(s):

Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909

Robert Hoe III WIKIDATA

Note:

Book of Hours written at the end of the fifteenth century in France, but of undetermined liturgical use, with general calendary and litany.
Span folios: ff. 1-121v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 16 28(through f. 14) 3-88 94(through f. 66) 10-158 + unclear structure of ff. 115-121. Evidence of catchwords written in a cursive script in the lower right margin. Ruled space, 94, x 53 mm; 21 long lines, ruled in pale red ink. Written in a bâtarde script.
Decoration: Twelve large miniatures, the width of the page, with the 3 lines of text superimposed as if a label at the bottom of the picture. All but one of the miniatures in half-length close-up, highlighted with fine gold hatching in a style influenced by Jean Bourdichon. In the calendar, miniatures of the signs of the zodiac and the monthly occupations.
Other decoration: Band borders on every page, traced through, with acanthus leaves, flowers, birds or insects or grotesques. Major initials, 4- and 3-line, as white leaves with gold infilling on a gold-petterned brick-red ground; 2- and 1-line initials in gold on white-patterned blue grounds, or in blue on gold-patterned red grounds, or as white leaves infilled with a bird or insect against a...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 10/18/2009.
On the first front and back flyleaf the same name has been written and crossed out; on the front is also the date "ce 26 Sept. 1811" and several flourishes, all in the same ink as the name. A note in French on the front pastedown discusses text and miniatures. Belonged to Robert Hoe, Grolier Club (1892) n. 24; Cat. (1909) pp. 89-90, where it is said to be in a "modern case of brown morocco...

Keyword:

illuminations (paintings)

books of hours

manuscripts (documents)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861949

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:50622/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens