The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1265

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9722

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1265

Title:

Book of Hours, use of Châlons-sur-Marne

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

between 1500 and 1515

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin and French

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. i + 77 : parchment ; 125 x 168 mm

Note:

Book of Hours written in the early sixteenth century in France, apparently destined for use in the area of Châlons-sur-Marne.
Span folios: ff. 1-77v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 16 26(-4) 3-54 66 76(-5, after f. 33) 86(-4, after f. 37; -6, after f. 38) 96(-5, after f. 42) 106(-6, after f. 48) 11-146 154(+5, f. 77). Catchwords (ff. 15v and 23v) in bâtarde script written vertically along the inner bounding line. Ruled space, 111 x 73 mm; 20 long lines, ruled in brown ink. Written in a gothic script in two sizes.
Decoration: Eight large miniatures, above 5 lines of text, in arched compartments, with flesh of figures in a greenish tinge; outer border of multicolored acanthus leaves and black ivy spray vines with gold foliage. 5-line initials in white-patterned blue or pink on a ground of the other color with infilling of colored trilobe leaves set against a gold ground, and a gold bar forming an outer...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 10/18/2009.
The feminine form in the prayer on f. 76 suggests that the first owner was a woman. A note on the back pastedown identifies a sixteenth century owner as Margueritte Morelz. Date and source of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.

Keyword:

books of hours

illuminations (paintings)

manuscripts (documents)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861950

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52500/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens