Book of Hours, use of Bescançon (DS9681) (Q43047)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b1861906x, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861906, mssHM 1141)
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Book of Hours, use of Bescançon (DS9681)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b1861906x, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861906, mssHM 1141)

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    Book of Hours, use of Bescançon
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    Grotesques--France--15th century
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    Coats of arms--France--15th century
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    Illuminations (paintings)--France--15th century
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    Books of hours--France--15th century
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    between 1440 and 1460
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    Extent: ff. iii + ii + 189 + ii + iii : parchment ; 165 x 230 mm
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    Book of Hours, written in the middle of the fifteenth century for use in Bescançon to judge by the Hours of the Virgin and the Office of the Dead.
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    Span folios: ff. 1-189v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 16 26(+7, f. 13) 38(?, ff. 14-21) 4-138 142(ff. 102-103) 15-248 256. Catchwords in center lower margin in scripts of varying degree of formality. Ruled space, 100 x 70 mm; 15 long lines, ruled in pale red ink; pricking usually visible. Written in a gothic book hand, in 2 sizes according to liturgical function; ff. 178-188, possibly by a...
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    Decoration: Eighteen large miniatures, by an artist who has worked on other Besançon books of hours (e.g. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum MSS 69 and 70, and New York, New York Public Library, NYPL MA 041). In the borders of the calendar, the monthly occupation and the zodiac symbol. Traced band borders in the outer margin of every page, each with a grotesque; these borders also on ff. 188v-189v...
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    Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/15/2009.
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    Arms on f. 5v, gules a bend argent, of the Neufchâtel family. Arms on f. 71 of Guy de La Baume, count of Montrevel (d. 1516; Montrevel is in the department of the Ain) and his wife Jeanne de Longwy, per pale, 1, or a bend indented azure (de la Baume; see Rietstap, vol. 1, pl. 145); 2, azure a bend or (Longwy; see Rietstap, vol. 4, pl. 86). Notes relating to the Rye and Longwy families for the...
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