The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssEL 9 H 17

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DS ID:

DS9805

Shelfmark:

mssEL 9 H 17

Title:

Book of Hours and Psalter

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1300 and 1350

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin with French verses concluding each hour in the Book of Hours

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. ii + 200 + ii : parchment ; 180 x 270 mm

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Textura.
Layout: Collation beginning with f. 2: 18 24(through f. 13) 3-48 5-66(through f. 41) 7-198 208(-1, after f. 145) 21-268. Catchwords within narrow double rules. 21 long lines usually ruled in ink, but occasionally in lead (e.g. ff. 2-9v, 11v-12, 14-18, 110-124v, 127-129v). On the ink ruled leaves: top line full across; middle 2 and bottom 2 lines stop at the end of the written space but pick up...
Span folios: ff. 1-200v.
Decoration: On f. 1, preparatory pen drawing for a 2-part miniature. In the lower margins of the Short Hours of the Cross, 7 2-part miniatures, those on the left depicting scenes of the Passion; those on the right depend iconographically upon the French verses that conclude each hour. In the psalter and canticles, 8 historiated initials, similar in style to those in the Tickhill Psalter (New...
Other Decoration: In the Hours of the Passion, space reserved for a 9-line initial, while the 2-line initials have a rough, unfinished appearance and are probably by a different hand from those in the main body of text. In the Hours of the Virgin and the Psalter of St. Jerome, although the script resembles that of the main body of text, the decoration is as in the Hours of the Passion, with...
Assigned Date: s. XIV1.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/21/2012.
The woman in the historiated initial on f. 175v may be intended to represent the first owner of the book. Of the 15 coats of arms in the borders, 2 may be associated with a Vernon family of Harlaston, Staffordshire and Haddon, Derbyshire; on f. 61, argent, a fret sable, a quarter gules; and, also on f. 61, the same but on the quarter a martlet argent. For a description of all the coats of...

Keyword:

illuminations (paintings)

books of hours

manuscripts (documents)

historiated initials

psalters (books)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862036

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:49196/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens