The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 48

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9724

Shelfmark:

mssHM 48

Title:

Book of Hours, use of Rome

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Artist:

Maître de Claude, active 1517

Master Claude de France WIKIDATA

Master of Morgan 85, active 1490-1520

Master of Morgan 85 WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

between 1500 and 1515

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 107 : parchment ; 135 x 214 mm

Former Owner(s):

Jones, Herschel V. 1861-1928

Herschel V. Jones WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Roman script of the type associated with the work of Geoffroy Tory in Bourges.
Layout: 16 2-38 46 5-138 144 154(4 is pastedown). Quires and leaves signed with a letter of the alphabet and an arabic numeral on the inner lower corner of the recto. Ruled space, 133 x 69 mm; 24 long lines, ruled in pale red ink; pricking visible in the upper and lower margins.
Decoration: Sixteen large miniatures, usually above 7 lines of text, by 2 artists, of which the more competent has been identified as the Master of Claude of France; see Ch. Sterling, The Master of Claude, Queen of France (New York 1975), and the lesser artist as the Master of Morgan 85. Twenty-three smaller miniatures, usually 8-line, all by the Master of Morgan 85.
Rubrics alternating red and blue.
Acknowledgments: We thank Mme Nicole Reynaud for the identification of the Master of Claude of France, and Dr. J. Plummer for the identification of the Master of Morgan 85.
Assigned Date: s. XVIin.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 11/24/2009.
Written in France, possibly Tours, although the calendar and litany appear quite general, in the early sixteenth century. It has been suggested that the manuscript belonged to the Duchess of Namur on the basis of what was interpreted as a coat of arms in a roundel on f. 16, a ruby proper, in a lozenge or, surrounded by 4 pearls proper. However, this may simply be an ornamental Renaissance...

Keyword:

books of hours

illuminations (paintings)

manuscripts (documents)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861952

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:45818/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens