Book of Hours, use of Paris (DS9714) (Q43146)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18619423, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861942, mssHM 1168)
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Book of Hours, use of Paris (DS9714)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18619423, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861942, mssHM 1168)

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    Book of Hours, use of Paris
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    Books of hours--France--16th century
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    Illuminations (paintings)--France--16th century
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    Grotesques--France--16th century
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    between 1500 and 1550
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    Extent: ff. i + 170 + i : parchment ; 129 x 188 mm
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    Book of Hours, use of Paris, written in France during the first half of the sixteenth century.
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    Span folios: ff. 1-170v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 16 2-38 46(through f. 28) 5-68 7-84 92 104 11-138 146(through f. 88) 15-198 206 218(-8, cancelled by the scribe) 22-238 246 258(+9, f. 170). Catchwords in center lower margin in script of text. Ruled space, 104 x 63 mm, 18 long lines, ruled in pale red ink. Written in two sizes of a rather round gothic script, but with a humanistic sense of...
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    Decoration: Thirteen large miniatures above 4 lines of text, usually framed by colored columns and with gold tracery at the top of the arch. Twenty-one smaller miniatures, in narrow rectangles, enclosed by colored columns and gold tracery at the top. The calendar with illustrations of the monthly occupation in the outer border and of the sign of the zodiac in the lower. Traced borders in the...
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    Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 10/13/2009.
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    An inscription on the front pastedown shows the manuscript to have belonged to J. G. Smyth, clerk, of St. Gregory's, Norwich in 1790, and to have been given by him on 3 August 1830 to Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, in whose library it bore the shelf mark, VI.H.h.8 (not in the Bibliotheca Sussexiana, London 1827, because of the late date of acquisition), sale of the Duke of Sussex, Evans...
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    22 July 2024
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    22 July 2024
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