The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1181
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9765
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 1181
- Title:
- Book of Hours, use of Rome
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- France
- Date:
- between 1490 and 1510
- Language:
- Latin and French
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. i + i + 143 + i + i : parchment ; 120 x 175 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Béthune, Philippe de, comte de Selles et de Charost, 1561-1649
Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715
Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909
- Note:
- Book of Hours, use of Rome, written in France at the turn of the fifteenth century.
Span folios: ff. 1-143v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 16 28 32(to f. 16) 4-58 68(-8) 7-98 108(-7) 118(-1) 12-198 202. Catchwords written vertically along the inner bounding line. Ruled space, 107 x 60 mm; 22 long lines ruled in pale red ink. Written in a bâtarde script.
Decoration: Thirteen full page miniatures, in painted gold architectural frames, often with colored marble panels or columns. Thirty-two smaller miniatures, 11- or 10-line. In the calendar, illustrations of the monthly occupations with the zodiac symbols usually in monochrome blue. Major initials, 6-line, in white-patterned blue with infilling on gold ground of a realistic flower, the whole...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 10/18/2009.
Written for owners whose monograms BL and BI [?] tied with a lovers' knot, appear 24 times in the borders; one of the B's may indicate Bartholomew, a suffrage of that saint being included in this book. Owned by Philippe, comte de Béthune whose books passed to his son Hippolyte; he, in turn, bequeathed them to Louis XIV in 1658. Belonged to Robert Hoe, Cat. (1909) pp. 95-96; at that time kept... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861995
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52427/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
