Book of Hours, use of Rome (DS9765) (Q43299)
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18619952, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861995, mssHM 1181)
- Book of hours (Usus Romanus)
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Book of Hours, use of Rome (DS9765) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18619952, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861995, mssHM 1181) |
|
Statements
Book of hours (Usus Romanus)
0 references
Béthune, Philippe de, comte de Selles et de Charost, 1561-1649
0 references
Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715
0 references
Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909
0 references
Illuminations (paintings)--France--15th century
0 references
Books of hours--France--16th century
0 references
Books of hours--France--15th century
0 references
between 1490 and 1510
15. century
16. century
1490Gregorian
1510Gregorian
0 references
Extent: ff. i + i + 143 + i + i : parchment ; 120 x 175 mm
0 references
Book of Hours, use of Rome, written in France at the turn of the fifteenth century.
0 references
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.
0 references
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...
0 references
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 10/18/2009.
0 references
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...
0 references
22 July 2024
0 references
22 July 2024
0 references