Book of Hours, use of Paris (DS9682) (Q43050)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18619071, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861907, mssHM 1142)
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Book of Hours, use of Paris (DS9682)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18619071, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861907, mssHM 1142)

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    Book of Hours, use of Paris
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    Illuminations (paintings)--France--15th century
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    Grotesques--France--15th century
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    Books of hours--France--15th century
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    between 1400 and 1415
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    Extent: ff. i + 142 + i : parchment ; 128 x 186 mm
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    Book of Hours, use of Paris, written in the early fifteenth century; at a later date, perhaps in the seventeenth century when the book was bound in its present form, an effort was made to complete the by-then missing sections at the beginning of the Penitential psalms and of the Office of the Dead, by partially erasing (some of the original initials were left untouched) and re-writing...
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    Span folios: ff. 1-142v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 112 28 34(-4, excised) 4-98 106(through f. 77) 118(-1, which has been replaced by a leaf, now f. 78, once at the end of another quire, bearing the catchword "et mortem") 128(-8, after f. 92) ff. 93-102 (now all singletons with f. 95 bound out of order and with leaves missing before ff. 93 and 98) 13-178. Catchwords in a cursive script in the...
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    Decoration: Ten miniatures, usually in square compartments above 5 lines of text, attributed to the Boethius Illuminator (Cf. M. Meiss, French Painting in the time of Jean de Berry, The Limbourgs and their Contemporaries (New York 1974) 372). Both text and miniature enclosed by wide bands of a U-frame deriving from initials and usually composed of pink, blue and gold segments, which sprout...
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    Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/15/2009.
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    Belonged to E. Dwight Church and is described in his Catalogue . . . of English Literature (1909) vol. 1, n. 407 with a plate of f. 43v. The Church collection was acquired by Henry E. Huntington in 1911.
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    22 July 2024
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    22 July 2024
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