(Q43092)
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Book of hours (Usus Romanus)
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Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909
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Books of hours--Belgium--15th century
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Illuminations (paintings)--Belgium--15th century
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between 1485 and 1499
15. century
1485Gregorian
1499Gregorian
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Extent: ff. 177 + iii : parchment ; 115 x 168 mm
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Book of Hours, use of Rome, written in Flanders, probably Ghent, in the late fifteenth century.
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Span folios: ff. 1-177v. Support: Parchment. Layout: Collation includes the added singletons, now missing, 16(-1) 28(-7, 8) 3-58 68(-2 added singletons, before the first and eighth leaf, ff. 36 and 43) 78 84(to f. 55) 98(-an added singleton, before the first leaf, f. 56) 108 118(-an added singleton, before the second leaf, f. 73) 128(-an added singleton, before the fifth leaf, f. 84) 138(-2...
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Decoration: Twelve full page miniatures, which were all on inserted singletons and presumably blank on the recto, have been cut from the manuscript. The remaining illuminations are those of prayers, suffrages and Gospel pericopes, usually 6-line, in grisaille technique of shaded whites, highlighted in gold, often set against gold-patterned maroon drapes. A number of the miniatures, although...
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/16/2009.
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N. 632 in a sale (not Brayton Ives, 1891, according to De Ricci). Belonged to Robert Hoe, Grolier Club (1892) n. 49 with a plate of f. 23; Cat. (1909) pp. 92-93; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1912, pt. IV, n. 2342 to G. D. Smith. Precise source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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