The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1344

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9728

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1344

Title:

Book of Hours, Sarum use

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Flanders

Flanders TGN

Date:

between 1500 and 1515

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin and English

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. iii + 183 + iii : parchment ; 160 x 215 mm

Note:

Book of Hours, Sarum use, written in the early sixteenth century in Flanders for export to England; a number of feminine forms (ff. 31, 75v, 78v, 82, 84v, 92v, 93, 95v, 106v, 108v) indicate that it was intended for a woman.
Span folios: ff. 1-183v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-26 38(+1, f. 13 and 6, f. 18) 48 54(-4) 68(+1, f. 34 and 7, f. 40) 78 86(+1, f. 52, and 5, f. 56 and 8, f. 59) 96(+2, f. 62 and 5, f. 65 and 8, f. 68) 10-148 158(+3, f. 112) 168 178(+3, f. 129) 18-238. Ruled space, 126 x 90 mm; 20 long lines, ruled in pale red ink. Written in a gothic book hand.
Decoration: Twelve full page illuminations of mediocre quality on the verso of inserted singletons, blank on the recto, except for 6 lines of text on f. 40. Full borders on the miniature page and the facing text page usually of naturalistic flowers, birds and insects against a thin yellow-gold wash. Major initials, 5-line, as brown or dark green branches against variously colored grounds that...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 11/25/2009.

Keyword:

illuminations (paintings)

manuscripts (documents)

books of hours

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861956

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:51103/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens