The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1077
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9754
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 1077
- Title:
- Breviary, use of Autun
- Catholic Church
- Artist:
- Master of the Burgundian Prelates
- Place:
- France
- Date:
- between 1450 and 1499
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. i + 248 + ii : parchment ; 215 x 299 mm
- Note:
- Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Gothic.
Layout: 1-318. Catchwords in lower right margin, visible only in quires 15 (f. 120v) and 30 (f. 240v); signatures apparently in letters and roman numerals in lower right corner: the only remaining signature on the third leaf of quire 29, f. 227, as "n iii." Ruled space, 194-195 x 128-129 mm; 2 columns of 34 lines, ruled in pale red ink; slash pricking visible in the outer margin of a few leaves.
Decoration: Four 8-line miniatures and 6 historiated initials.
Artist identified generally and in this manuscript by N. Reynaud as the Master of Burgundian Prelates; see her article in Études d'art français offerts à Ch. Sterling, ed. A. Châtelet and N. Reynaud (Paris 1975) 151-63.
Assigned Date: s. XV2.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 12/13/2009.
Written in the second half of the fifteenth century in France for use in the diocese of Autun. HM 1077 may have been part of a larger volume, or one of a set, since it contains references to parts of a breviary not in the present book. Arms of the first owner in lower margins of ff. 1, 1v, 25, 41v, 150v, 167v and 243: quarterly, 1 and 4 azure, three keys (2 and 1) or in pale; 2 and 3 argent on... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861982
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:48593/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
