Book of Hours, use of Rome (DS9661) (Q42987)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18618868, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861886, mssHM 1101)
- Book of hours (Usus Romanus)
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| English | Book of Hours, use of Rome (DS9661) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18618868, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861886, mssHM 1101) |
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Book of hours (Usus Romanus)
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Master of Philippe of Guelders, active 1495-1510
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Books of hours--France--16th century
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Illuminations (paintings)--France--15th century
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Illuminations (paintings)--France--16th century
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between 1440 and 1515
15. century
16. century
1440Gregorian
1515Gregorian
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Extent: ff. 98 : parchment ; 158 x 245 mm
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Book of Hours, use of Rome, written in France; the main text in the early sixteenth century with several miniatures created in the middle of the fifteenth century added.
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Part 1. Span folios: ff. 5-93v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 14(ff. 4-7) 28(+1, f. 8) 312(+3, f. 19) 44 512 64 712(+3, f. 52, and 12, f. 61) 84(+1, f. 64, and 3, f. 66) 912 104 1110(-2 leaves in the second half?; ff. 86-93, with stitching between ff. 90-91). One catchword survives, f. 79v, in a small formal cursive script. Ruled space, 160 x 83 mm; 30 long lines, ruled in pale red ink; pricking...
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Part 1. Decoration: Nine full page miniatures of which 6 are on the versos of inserted singletons, usually blank on the recto. In the calendar a narrow strip at the top of the folio encloses the 2 signs of the zodiac, while the monthly occupations are below. On every page, except where there are full page illuminations, traced geometric borders with acanthus leaves, naturalistic flowers, and...
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Part 2. Span folios: ff. 1-4, 94-98. Parchment. The original leaves are trimmed down to precisely and only their decorated surface and glued to the versos of the former front pastedown and front flyleaves, and to the rectos of the former back flyleaves and back pastedown of the host manuscript; the miniatures are in arched compartments above 4 lines of text, 100 x 75 mm.
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Part 2. Decoration: Nine large miniatures. The miniatures are attributed by E. König (Französische Buchmalerei um 1450: der Jouvenal-Maler, der Maler des Genfer Boccaccio und die Anfänge Jean Fouquets (Berlin 1982) 254) to the artist of Paris, B.N. fr. 135-136 (by typographical error, this manuscript given as HM 1141).
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/10/2009.
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Belonged to Sidney Herbert, 14th Earl of Pembroke (1853-1913); his sale, Sotheby's, 25 June 1914, n. 109 with plates of ff. 19v-20 and one of the added miniatures, f. 2v, to G. D. Smith. 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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