The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1346
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9729
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 1346
- Title:
- Book of Hours, Sarum use
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- England
- Date:
- between 1300 and 1350
- Language:
- Latin and French
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. ii + 187 + ii : parchment ; 115 x 190 mm
- Note:
- Book of Hours, Sarum use, written in England in the first half of the fourteenth century.
Span folios: ff. 1-187v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 16 212(-1) 312(-5) 410 58 612(-9, before f. 55) 712(-8, before f. 65) 812(-1, before f. 69 and -10, before f. 77) 96(through f. 84) 10-1112 1210(through f. 118) 1312 1412(-1, before f. 131) 15-1712 188(through f. 185; ff. 186-187, contemporary flyleaves). Catchwords in the script of the text (ff. 38v, 165v) or in a small noting hand (17v...
Decoration: Five historiated initials survive (presumably of an original 11), to some extent mutilated by effacing and by slashing with a knife. In the calendar, the monthly occupations and the signs of the zodiac. 2-line initials in white-decorated blue or pink on grounds of the other color, filled with colored trilobe leaves on a gold ground. 1-line initials in gold against blue or pink...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 11/25/2009.
It has been suggested that the "count de D." on f. 186v is to be identified with Edward Courtenay, Earl of Devonshire (d. 1419) (See J. Backhouse, The Madresfield Hours (The Roxburghe Club, 1975), especially Appendix, pp. 30-33). On the front pastedown, a square label bearing, within a blue circle, the pressmark "A. III. 72." Quaritch Gen. Cat. (1880) n. 8557; Howell Wills sale, London, 1894... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861957
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52488/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
