The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1066

Images provided by hosting institution via

Metadata

DS ID:

DS9752

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1066

Title:

Diurnal for Dominican use

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

between 1485 and 1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 341 (+ f. 305 bis) : parchment ; 55 x 79 mm

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Hybrida.
Layout: Collation beginning with f. 2: 1-26 3-58 64(ff. 38-41) 7-158 168(-6, excised) 17-318(through f. 240) 32-368(through f. 280) 37-438 448(7 is pastedown; -8). 2 catchwords visible: f. 21v, written horizontally in a tiny noting hand at the inner corner; f. 113v, written vertically in a noting hand along the fold in the gutter. Ruled space, 48 x 32 mm; 15-20 long lines, frame ruled in ink...
Decoration: Two miniatures on separate sheets of parchment, glued to ff. 1v and 241v; the first of an angel with scourge, rod and pail, the second of the Sacred Heart enclosed by a frame bearing a legend in German.
Other Decoration: Opening initial, f. 14v, 13-line, parted red and blue with a spotted leopard on the initial, infilled and decorated with red and blue scrolled flourishing. 5-line initials in similar style.
Note that f. 305 is actually two leaves, fore edge not cut. Seventeenth century paper inserts, ff. 38-41 and 281-341, with an unidentified watermark of a coat of arms with the countermark, "C K"(?), containing text in various cursive hands.
Assigned Date: s. XVex.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 12/13/2009.
Written at the end of the fifteenth century in southern Germany for use by Dominicans as shown by the entries in the calendar and in the sanctorale. Obituary notices of a Schaubb family, dated in the late sixteenth century, also in the calendar. Source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.

Keyword:

figure initials

manuscripts (documents)

miniatures (paintings)

illuminations (paintings)

liturgy

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861980

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52396/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens