The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 39467

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9735

Shelfmark:

mssHM 39467

Title:

Prayer roll

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

between 1485 and 1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin and French

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 roll (7 membranes) : parchment ; 18 x 360 mm

Former Owner(s):

Ferguson, F. S. 1878-1967

Frederic Sutherland Ferguson WIKIDATA

Note:

Prayer roll written in France at the end of the fifteenth century.
Span folios: 1 roll of 7 membranes of varying length (from 150 to 690 mm.) Support: Parchment. Layout: Ruled in pale red ink; pricking still present. Written in two sizes of a bâtarde script according to liturgical function.
Decoration: Three miniatures, the width of the text, framed by a simple painted gold band. Two historiated initials, approximately 4-line. 4- and 3-line initials in blue with white shading against a pale flesh-tone ground with gold filigree; 2- and 1-line initials in painted gold against square grounds of blue, brown or flesh-tone; ribbon line fillers in the same colors. Rubrics in pale pink.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 11/25/2009.
Belonged to F. S. Ferguson. Acquired by the Huntington Library in April 1973 from the book dealer J. F. T. Rodgers, Catalogue 3 (London 1973) n. 37.

Keyword:

historiated initials

miniatures (paintings)

manuscripts (documents)

illuminations (paintings)

scrolls (information artifacts)

Catholic Church

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861963

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:51752/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens