Book of Hours (DS9764) (Q43296)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18619940, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861994, mssHM 1180)
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Book of Hours (DS9764) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18619940, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861994, mssHM 1180) |
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Jones, Herschel V. 1861-1928
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Illuminations (paintings)--France--15th century
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Books of hours--France--15th century
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between 1475 and 1499
15. century
1475Gregorian
1499Gregorian
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Extent: ff. 92 (+ f. 43 bis) : parchment ; 140 x 200 mm
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Book of Hours written in France during the fourth quarter of the fifteenth century. HM 1180 may be only the second half of the book, since it lacks many usual texts of a book of hours, calendar, hours of the Virgin, office of the dead, penitential psalms and litany.
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Span folios: ff. 1-92v (+ f. 43 bis) Support: Parchment. Layout: Collation beginning at f. 3, including f. 43 bis and ending at f. 89, 18 28(-4, before f. 14) 38(-2, before f. 19) 48 58(-2, before f. 34) 6-78 88(+5 and 6, ff. 59, blank, and 60, blank on the recto) 98 108(+1 at the beginning, f. 73) 118. Some catchwords remain, although partially erased, in the inner margin of ff. 32v and 46v...
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Decoration: Sixteen full page miniatures in arched compartments with serrated tops; several of the miniatures derive directly from contemporary engravings by various artists, many have been retouched to lighten the dark skin tones and to repair flaking. Illuminations missing before ff. 19 and 34 are now in Baltimore, The Walters Art Museum as W.781a and W.781b, (described in Lilian M. C...
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Other decoration: 9-line initials in white-patterned pink or blue on burnished gold ground with colored trilobe leaf infilling; 2- and 1-line initials in gold on blue or pink with infilling of the other color; initials within the text touched in yellow. Rubrics in red.
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 10/18/2009.
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Robson Catalogue 94 (London, ca. 1900) n. 11 with a plate of f. 16v. Belonged to Herschel V. Jones of Minneapolis; his sale, Anderson, New York, 29 January 1919, pt. II, n. 907 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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