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Description
ff. 1-92v (+ f. 43 bis): [Book of Hours]: ff. 3-27: [f. 3, ruled, but blank], Hours of the Passion with, after lauds, suffrages of Catherine of Alexandria, John the Evangelist, and Peter and Paul and after none, a suffrage ""de annunciatione dominica""; ff. 27v-30v: Passion according to John; ff. 31-40v: [f. 31, ruled, but blank], Hours of the Compassion of the Virgin; ff. 41-44: [f. 41, ruled, but blank], Prayers to the Holy Spirit; ff. 44v-55: Long hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 55-58v: Prayers to Jesus; ff. 59-68: [ff. 59-60, blank], Long Hours of the Holy Name of Jesus; ff. 68-73v: Prayers to Jesus; ff. 73v-79: Prayers on the passion of Christ and of penance; ff. 79-86v: Prayers to the Trinitiy, ""psalters"" to the Trinity, Psalter of St. Jerome. ff. 90-92v, blank. 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. 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. A quire and leaf signature on f. 43 ""m iiii"" may indicate that the book once contained an additional 5 or 6 quires at the beginning. Ruled space, 132 x 80 mm; 31 long lines, ruled in pale red ink; some pricking uncropped. Written in a gothic book hand of two sizes according to liturgical function. 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. Randall, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore and London, 1989-97) vol. 2, France, 1420-1540, part 1, n. 155, pp. 264-266 and fig. 272). 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. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 10/18/2009. Cataloged from existing description: C. W. Dutschke with the assistance of R. H. Rouse et al., Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, 1989). Bound in 17th century coarse grained black morocco over bevelled wooden boards; evidence of 2 fore edge straps closing to pins on edge of lower cover; gilt edges. HM 1180. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Books of Hours France 15th century. (aat) Illuminations (Painting) France 15th century. (aat) Manuscripts (documents) (aat)
Source
Manuscripts, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
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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