The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 25773

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9947

Shelfmark:

mssHM 25773

Title:

Book of Hours, use of Rome

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Flanders

Flanders TGN

Date:

between 1485 and 1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 123 : parchment ; 46 x 60 mm

Former Owner(s):

Dickinson, Mary W. T

Mary W. T. Dickinson WIKIDATA

Note:

Book of Hours, use of Rome, written in Flanders at the end of the fifteenth century for use in Bruges, according to the saints in the calendar.
Span folios: ff. 1-123v. Support: Parchment. Layout: For the collation, the structure of (the 2 flyleaves and?) ff. 1-4 is unclear, 28 38(+3, f. 15) 48(+3, f. 24) 5-128 13 (ff. 96-99 of uncertain structure) 14-158 168(+5, f. 120). Catchwords written vertically along the inner bounding line. 17 long lines ruled in very pale brown ink. Written in a gothic book hand.
Decoration: Three inserted singletons, blank on the recto, and with a miniature of simple execution on the verso; the leaves facing the miniatures with the same style borders and 5-line white acanthus initials: f. 15v, Virgin and Child, on the crescent; f. 24v, Annunciation; f. 120v, Pietà; the same style border on ff. 13 (with a coat of arms) and 100.
Other Decoration: Secondary initials, 5-line, white-patterned blue or pink on a gold cusped ground with trilobe leaf infilling; 2-line initials in gold against blue or pink square ground with infilling of the other color; 1-line initials, blue with red penwork or gold with black. Rubrics in pale red.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/19/2012.
The coat of arms on f. 13 appears to be original, and is probably that of the Esneval family of Normandy (Rietstap, vol. 2, pl. 280). The book bears the number "26" on the spine and on f. i; also on f. i, the erased press mark "D.8.1," the cipher "1673/2629," and what is probably the price code for Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles. Received by the Huntington Library in April 1953 as a bequest...

Keyword:

books of hours

illuminations (paintings)

coats of arms

manuscripts (documents)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862179

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52437/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens