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Description
ff. 1-115 [Book of Hours]: f. 1, blank; f. 1v, coat of arms; ff. 2-13v: Full calendar in French alternating red, blue and gold entries; ff. 14-20v: Pericopes of the Gospels, a suffrage of Catherine of Alexandria; ff. 21-24v: Short hours of the Cross; ff. 25-27v: Short hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 28-70v: Hours of the Virgin, of undetermined use; ff. 71-85v: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 86-109v: Office of the Dead, use of Besançon; ff. 110-114v: Obsecro te and O Intemerata; f. 115: coat of arms; f. 115v, blank. Book of Hours written during the first half of the fifteenth century perhaps for use in Besançon, to judge from the Office of the Dead, and the saints in the litany. Span folios: ff. 1-115v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1⁶(from f. 2) 2⁶ 3-14⁸(through f. 109) 15⁸(-6, 8). Ruled space, 115 x 81 mm; 16 long lines ruled in pale red ink. Written in a gothic book hand of varying size according to liturgical function. Decoration: Sixteen large illuminations above 3 lines of text within arched compartments by more than one artist; some of the miniatures are based upon compositions of the Boucicaut Master. Borders in 2 styles, the division occurring after quire 3 between ff. 29-30. 3-line initials in white-patterned blue or pink with colored trilobe leaf infilling against a cusped gold ground; 2- and 1-line initials in gold with alternating pink or blue infilling and ground of the other color; ribbon line fillers in the same colors; initials within the text touched in yellow. Rubrics in red, except on f. 23r-v (conjunct with f. 28, with the Annunciation scene) where they are in blue and by a different hand. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/15/2009. 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 French red morocco; gilt edges, marbled endpapers and 2 later silver fore edge clasps, closing front to back, one lacking. A diamond-shaped pattern of black-stained holes on the first and last flyleaves and 2 sets of 2 marks each on the outer margins of these flyleaves suggest fore edge clasps and a center boss on an earlier binding. HM 1137. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Extent
ff. iii + i + 115 (f. 1 is a flyleaf) + ii : parchment ; 165 x 216 mm.
Books of hours France 15th century. (aat) Illuminations (Painting) France 15th century. (aat) Coats of arms. (aat) Manuscripts (documents) (aat)
Source
Manuscripts, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
The arms of early owners on ff. 1v and 115 were identified by A. Van de Put, as those of Jacques d'Archiac, lord of Aveilles (on f. 1v) and of his wife, Louise d'Aumont (on f. 115): his arms, encircled by a laurel wreath, gules two pales vair a chief or; her arms, also encircled by a laurel wreath, per pale, I, gules one [for two] pales vair a chief or (Archiac; similar to Rietstap, vol. 1, pl. 62); II, quarterly of five (2 and 3): 1, argent a chevron gules between, in chief four and in base three, martlets gules (Aumont; see Rietstap, vol. 1, pl. 87); 2, ermine eight horseshoes in orle and a bordure gules (Ferrières; see Rietstap, vol. 2, pl. 317); 3, or three bars azure and a bordure gules; 4, azure two fishes or and seven crosses argent (3 and 4); 5, or a lion rampant azure armed and langued gules. Belonged to Robert Hoe: Grolier Club (1892) n. 18; Cat. (1909) pp. 22-23; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1912, pt. IV, n. 2345 with plate of f. 53 to G. D. Smith. Precise source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.
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