The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 25779

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9732

Shelfmark:

mssHM 25779

Title:

Book of Hours, use of Rome

Book of hours

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1450 and 1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. i + 166 + i : parchment ; 70 x 98 mm

Former Owner(s):

Dickinson, Mary W. T

Mary W. T. Dickinson WIKIDATA

Note:

Book of Hours, use of Rome, written in the second half of the fifteenth century in Italy, possibly in Florence given the style of the illuminations.
Span folios: ff. 1-166v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 112 2-810 94(to f. 86) 10-1110 1210(to f. 116) 13-1710. Catchwords to the right in the lower margin. A few quire and leaf signatures remain uncropped, as letters of the alphabet and arabic numerals. Ruled space, 55 x 37 mm; 15 long lines ruled in pale brown ink. Written in a round Italian gothic book hand.
Decoration: Historiated initials, ff. 13, 87, 110v and 117. Secondary initials, 2-line blue with red harping and beading, or red with purple; 1-line initials within the text alternating red or blue. Rubrics in red.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 11/25/2009.
On the front pastedown the engraved heraldic bookplate of C. W. Loscombe; Sotheby's, 16 December 1946, lot 547 to the London booksellers McLeish and Sons; sold by them to Dawson's Book Shop in Los Angeles with correspondence to that effect dated November 1947 now in Huntington files; sold by Dawson's to Mary W. T. Dickinson by that date. Received by the Huntington Library in April 1953 as a...

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

historiated initials

Italy

Fifteenth century

books of hours

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861960

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Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens