The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 19913

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9731

Shelfmark:

mssHM 19913

Title:

Book of Hours, Sarum use

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Artist:

Scheerre, Herman, active 1405-1425‏

Herman Scheerre WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1400 and 1415

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. iii + iv + 142 + iv + vii : parchment ; 82 x 110 mm

Note:

Book of Hours, Sarum use, written in England and dated to approximately 1405 by C. Kuhn based upon the miniatures (cf. C. Kuhn, "Herman Scheerre and English Illumination of the early Fifteenth Century," Art Bulletin 22 (1940) 138-56).
Span folios: ff. 1-142v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 16 2-58 64(through f. 42) 7-88 96(through f. 64) 10-188 1910(? ff. 137-142, one leaf missing before f. 138, stitching between ff. 140-141, at least one leaf missing after f. 142). Catchwords in lower right margin, sometimes on a scroll. Ruled space, 63 x 38 mm; 19 long lines through f. 42, thereafter 18 long lines, ruled in pale red ink with...
Decoration: Four miniatures, 13- or 12-line, enclosed by painted illusionistic frames in orange, blue or pink decorated with clusters of 3 white dots; the frame on f. 65 consists of alternating orange and green ribbons twined around a blue rod. Three of the miniatures are attributed to followers of Herman Scheerre (ff. 43, 65, and 104); the last miniature, f. 122, is attributed to Scheerre...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 11/25/2009.
In the lower margin of f. 1 are the initials "I.G." in a late sixteenth or early seventeenth century hand. Acquired by Dr. Eric G. Millar (1887-1966) from James Thorp in London, 1934; his notes, ff. i-ii, and on file; his sale, Sotheby's, 15 June 1959 lot 190 with a plate of all 4 miniatures. Acquired by the Huntington Library at that time.

Keyword:

illuminations (paintings)

books of hours

manuscripts (documents)

miniatures (paintings)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861959

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:51708/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens