The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssEL 34 A 1
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9723
- Shelfmark:
- mssEL 34 A 1
- Title:
- Book of Hours, use of Paris
- Catholic Church
- Artist:
- Maître François, style of
- Place:
- France
- Date:
- between 1450 and 1499
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. i + 166 + i : parchment ; 90 x 126 mm
- Note:
- Support: Parchment.
Script: Bâtarde.
Layout: 112 2-38 48(-1 and 8, before ff. 29 and 35) 58(-4 and 5, after f. 37) 6-118 126(-6, after f. 93, cancelled by the scribe) 138(-1, before f. 94) 14-198 208(-1, before f. 149) + ff. 156-166, of uncertain structure (ff. 159-160 and 165-166 are bifolia). Ruled space, 63 x 44 mm; 15 long lines, ruled in pale red ink.
Span folios: ff. 1-166v.
Decoration: Nine large miniatures in arched compartments above 4 lines of text; the outer borders contain the initials C. and C. often united with a lovers' knot, pansies, columbines and red, brown and black droplets against a painted gold ground. The miniatures are partially repainted in the faces. The small miniatures for the suffrages, 25 x 25 mm., 6-line, are by a less capable artist.
Rubrics in blue.
Assigned Date: s. XV2.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke`, 11/23/2009.
Written in France in the second half of the fifteenth century for owners whose names may have been Claude and Catherine, as indicated by the frequent use of the initials C. and C. in the decoration, and by the possible owner representation in the miniature of St. Claude, f. 155; the name of Catherine is suggested, less firmly, by the rather uncommon prominence given to Catherine of Siena, f... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861951
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52363/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
