The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 47544
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9736
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 47544
- Title:
- Fragment from a Book of Hours
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- Italy?
- Date:
- between 1450 and 1499
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. 3 : parchment ; 70 x 98 mm
- Note:
- Title supplied by cataloger.
Three leaves from a Book of Hours written possibly in Italy in the second half of the fifteenth century.
ff. lxxx (modern parchment, stained on the edges to give an older appearance) + 3 single leaves + lxvi (modern parchment). Support: Parchment. Layout: Modern gatherings: after a first gathering of 10 leaves, all the remaining 22 quires are of 6 leaves; the 12th contains the 3 medieval leaves tipped in. Ruled space, 54 x 35 mm; 15 long lines on ff. 1 and 3, 14 long lines on f. 2, ruled in pale...
Decoration: Decorated in the style of northern French manuscripts: 5-line initial in white-decorated blue on a cusped gold ground, infilled with colored trilobe leaves; a U-shaped narrow band border of gold and color around the text; outer border of black ivy vine, gold motifs, 2 swirls of narrow acanthus leaf in red, orange, blue and green, and flowers. 2-line initials in burnished gold with...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 11/25/2009.
A label on the front pastedown, "D 113." On f. 1, modern pencil foliation, "152"; on f. 3, with the same numbering, "18." Faint pencil marks on the lower margin of f. 3 resemble the price code of Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles. Given to the Huntington Library in 1975 by Mrs. Edward J. Loftus. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861964
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52672/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
