The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1144
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9757
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 1144
- Title:
- Book of Hours, Sarum use
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- Flanders
- Date:
- between 1440 and 1460
- Language:
- Latin and English
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. ii + ii + 193 + ii + ii : parchment ; 135 x 192 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Turner, Dawson, 1775-1858
Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909
- Note:
- Book of Hours, Sarum use, written in the middle of the fifteenth century in Flanders, probably Bruges, for export to England.
Span folios: ff. 1-193v. Support: Parchment. Layout: Bound too tightly to collate; all the full page miniatures appear to be on separate leaves. Ruled space, 102 x 64 mm; 18 long lines, ruled in purple ink on ff. 1-100v, 114-181v, and in pale red ink on ff. 101-113v, 182-193v; pricking usually visible in the lower margin. Written in a gothic book hand.
Decoration: Twenty-three full page miniatures, on the versos of what are apparently inserted singletons, blank on the recto. Major initials, 6- or 5-line, in white-patterned blue against pink and gold grounds, or against a plain gold ground, with infilling of lush acanthus leaves, "English" in style; 2-line initials in gold on pink ground with blue infilling, or vice versa; 1-line initials...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/16/2009.
On f. 1, 16th century, is the note "Jesus have marci a pon us/ Johannes busshells boke tayller," and below this, the name "Arthur," erased. The book was n. 606 in an English book dealer's catalogue, and later, apparently, belonged to Dawson Turner, who signed a slip of paper quoting Sir Francis Palgrave, Sir Frederic Madden, and Mr. Shaw on the date and origin of the manuscript; these opinions... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861985
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:49089/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
