The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1147
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9760
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 1147
- Title:
- Book of Hours, use of Paris
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- France
- Date:
- between 1500 and 1515
- Language:
- Latin and French
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. i + vi + 127 + vi + ii : parchment ; 124 x 170 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Bordes, Henri, 1842-1911
Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909
- Note:
- Book of Hours, use of Paris, written in the early sixteenth century in France.
Span folios: ff. 1-127v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-36 4-88 94(+5, f. 63) 10-148 15-176(through f. 121) 186. Catchwords in the script of the text in the center lower margin. Usually in 22 long lines, but with 17 on ff. 7-12v (quire 2), and with 21 on ff. 13v-26v (quires 3 and 4) and on ff. 109-121v (last leaf of quire 15, quires 16 and 17); the center bifolium of quire 15, ff. 106-107v...
Decoration: Thirteen large miniatures above 4 lines of text, enclosed by painted gold architectural frames; both text and miniature surrounded by full borders of painted gold with multicolored acanthus leaf foliage and grotesques. Smaller miniatures, 8 to 12-line. Calendar miniatures with occupations of the month and the zodiac sign. 3-line initials as shaded white ribbons against square...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/16/2009.
Written in France where it remained at least through the middle of the nineteenth century. De Ricci suggests that it was bound for William Martin, although it does not appear in Martin's 1869 sale. On f. i verso the morocco book label of Henri Bordes; not traced in his sales. Belonged to Robert Hoe, Grolier Club (1892) n. 38 with a plate of f. 19; Cat. (1909) pp. 79-80; his sale, Anderson, New... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861988
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:49712/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
