Book of Hours, use of Rome, and a Prayerbook (DS9663) (Q42993)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18618881, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861888, mssHM 1104)
- Book of hours (Usus Romanus)
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| English | Book of Hours, use of Rome, and a Prayerbook (DS9663) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18618881, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861888, mssHM 1104) |
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Book of hours (Usus Romanus)
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Thorold, John Hayford, Sir, 1773-1831
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Church, Elihu Dwight, 1835-1908
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Illuminations (paintings)--France--15th century
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Books of hours--France--15th century
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15th century
15. century
1400Gregorian
1499Gregorian
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Extent: ff. ii + 248 + ii : parchment ; 178 x 263 mm
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Book of Hours, use of Rome, written in France at the beginning of the fifteenth century in two stages (probably concurrent). A first scribe copied the more usual texts of a book of hours, including the short hours of the Holy Spirit and of the Cross; he collaborated with the first artist who worked in the style of the Master of Luçon. A second scribe and illuminator were responsible for the...
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Part I. Span folios: ff. 1-202v. Parchment. Layout: 16 26(+1 leaf in the second half; the last leaf is blank) 38(-1 leaf in the second half; through f. 20, blank) 4-68 76(through f. 50) 810(through f. 60) 98 104(through f. 72) 11-158 164(through f. 116) 17-218 22-244 256(through f. 174) 26-274 288(through f. 190) 294(through f. 194) 30-314(through f. 202). Note that the divisions of the text...
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Part I decoration: Twenty-two large miniatures, the majority executed, in the early 15th century, in the style of the Master of Luçon; a second artist, contemporary to the first, worked on the supplemental materials. The miniatures occur on the first recto of the quires, except for those on ff. 32, 56 and 65, which are positioned on one of the two rectos of the center bifolium.
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Part II. Span folios: ff. 203-248v. Parchment. Layout: Quires with numeration continued from Part 1: 32-368 376. Catchwords written vertically along the inner bounding line; quire and leaf signatures as letters, a-[f], and roman numerals, with an x on the first leaf of the second half of the gathering. Ruled space, 133 x 75 mm; 15 long lines ruled in light brown ink. Written in a Bâtarde script.
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Part II decoration: Three miniatures. The artist of Part 2 also retouched the illustration of Part 1 in varying degrees.
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/10/2009.
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Coat of arms of the owner who added the Prayerbook in the late fifteenth century on f. 203: or a tree proper fructed or on a chief azure a rose gules between 2 leaves (?) in pale or. His name may have been "Julian," as that saint is invoked in the suffrage on f. 210, and the initial "G" appears in the prayers, ff. 216, 220, 224; the prayer on f. 218v reads "...Sana me domine et libera me de...
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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