The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1173
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9761
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 1173
- Title:
- Book of Hours
- Catholic Church
- Artist:
- Marmion, Simon, 1420-1489
- Place:
- France
- Date:
- between 1450 and 1499
- Language:
- Latin and French
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. iii + 126 : parchment ; 145 x 205 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Church, Elihu Dwight, 1835-1908
- Note:
- Book of Hours, of undetermined use, written in northeastern France in the second half of the fifteenth century; note, in the calendar, "michiel," "franchois," "berthelemieu".
Span folios: ff. 1-126v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-158(through f. 117) 162 1710(-6, 7, 8, presumably blank). One catchword survives on f. 45v in the script of the text, written vertically along the inner bounding line; the occasional tiny mark at the lower edge of other final quire leaves, however, indicates that the normal system in this book may have been to place the catchwords...
Decoration: Seventeen miniatures in arched compartments, numbered in early form arabic numerals in the center lower margin as suggested by the survival of the numbers 11, 13-17 on ff. 50, 56, 61, 65, 79, 84. Several miniatures have been attributed to Simon Marmion and helpers. 4- and 2-line initials in burnished gold with a design painted on the gold; infillings of dark blue acanthus leaves...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 10/17/2009.
Among the early owners were members of the family of Berlaymont as indicated by a death note on f. ii for "michiel de Berlaymont" dated 1516; notes on f. 10r-v give the death date of 1558 for "ma femme" whose body was brought to Berlaymont for burial, and again the date of 1558 for the dedication of the church of Berlaymont by the suffragan bishop of Cambrai. Two coats of arms added on f... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861989
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:49171/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
