The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1180

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9764

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1180

Title:

Book of Hours

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

between 1475 and 1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 92 (+ f. 43 bis) : parchment ; 140 x 200 mm

Former Owner(s):

Jones, Herschel V. 1861-1928

Herschel V. Jones WIKIDATA

Note:

Book of Hours written in France during the fourth quarter of the fifteenth century. HM 1180 may be only the second half of the book, since it lacks many usual texts of a book of hours, calendar, hours of the Virgin, office of the dead, penitential psalms and litany.
Span folios: ff. 1-92v (+ f. 43 bis) Support: Parchment. Layout: Collation beginning at f. 3, including f. 43 bis and ending at f. 89, 18 28(-4, before f. 14) 38(-2, before f. 19) 48 58(-2, before f. 34) 6-78 88(+5 and 6, ff. 59, blank, and 60, blank on the recto) 98 108(+1 at the beginning, f. 73) 118. Some catchwords remain, although partially erased, in the inner margin of ff. 32v and 46v...
Decoration: Sixteen full page miniatures in arched compartments with serrated tops; several of the miniatures derive directly from contemporary engravings by various artists, many have been retouched to lighten the dark skin tones and to repair flaking. Illuminations missing before ff. 19 and 34 are now in Baltimore, The Walters Art Museum as W.781a and W.781b, (described in Lilian M. C...
Other decoration: 9-line initials in white-patterned pink or blue on burnished gold ground with colored trilobe leaf infilling; 2- and 1-line initials in gold on blue or pink with infilling of the other color; initials within the text touched in yellow. Rubrics in red.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 10/18/2009.
Robson Catalogue 94 (London, ca. 1900) n. 11 with a plate of f. 16v. Belonged to Herschel V. Jones of Minneapolis; his sale, Anderson, New York, 29 January 1919, pt. II, n. 907 to G. D. Smith. Precise source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.

Keyword:

illuminations (paintings)

books of hours

manuscripts (documents)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861994

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:50829/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens