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Description
ff. 1-127v. [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-6v: Full calendar in French; ff. 7-12v: Pericopes of the Gospels; ff. 13-18v: f. 13, illumination; ff. 13v-14, ruled, but blank; ff. 14v-18v: Prayers; ff. 19-63v: Hours of the Virgin, use of Paris; f. 63v, ruled, but blank; ff. 64-66: Short hours of the Cross; ff. 66v-68v: Short hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 69-81: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 81v-108v: Office of the Dead, use of Paris; ff. 109-127v: the Obsecro te and the O Intemerata and several prayers in French, as well as suffrages of Michael, John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Peter and Paul, James the Greater, Stephen, Lawrence, Mary Magdalene, Catherine of Alexandria, Margaret, Barbara, Apollonia. Book of Hours, use of Paris, written in the early sixteenth century in France. Span folios: ff. 1-127v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-3⁶ 4-8⁸ 9⁴(+5, f. 63) 10-14⁸ 15-17⁶(through f. 121) 18⁶. Catchwords in the script of the text in the center lower margin. Usually in 22 long lines, but with 17 on ff. 7-12v (quire 2), and with 21 on ff. 13v-26v (quires 3 and 4) and on ff. 109-121v (last leaf of quire 15, quires 16 and 17); the center bifolium of quire 15, ff. 106-107v, written on 23 long lines. Ruled space, 110 x 62 mm, in pale red ink. Gothic script with humanistic spacing. Decoration: Thirteen large miniatures above 4 lines of text, enclosed by painted gold architectural frames; both text and miniature surrounded by full borders of painted gold with multicolored acanthus leaf foliage and grotesques. Smaller miniatures, 8 to 12-line. Calendar miniatures with occupations of the month and the zodiac sign. 3-line initials as shaded white ribbons against square painted gold grounds decorated with black ink dots and commas, and with naturalistic flowers or strawberries in the infilling; 3-line initial, f. 7v, in faceted gold against a blue ground decorated with white sprays; some 3-, and all 2- and 1-line initials in painted gold on gold decorated blue, brick red or ochre grounds; ribbon line fillers in these colors. Rubrics in blue. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/16/2009. 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 by Bernard David and finished by Marius Michel for the person who carefully wrote out notes in French regarding the manuscript on the front and back flyleaves; the notes are dated January 1866 and are signed ""E.S.""[?]. Brown morocco binding inlaid with various colors to an entrelac design, green morocco doublures elaborately tooled in the style of Eve; gilt edges gauffered with acanthus and grotesque patterns based on the borders of the manuscript; brown morocco slipcase. HM 1147. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Extent
ff. i + vi + 127 + vi + ii : parchment ; 124 x 170 mm.
Books of hours France 16th century. (aat) Illuminations (Painting) France 16th century. (aat) Manuscripts (documents) (aat)
Source
Manuscripts, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
Written in France where it remained at least through the middle of the nineteenth century. De Ricci suggests that it was bound for William Martin, although it does not appear in Martin's 1869 sale. On f. i verso the morocco book label of Henri Bordes; not traced in his sales. Belonged to Robert Hoe, Grolier Club (1892) n. 38 with a plate of f. 19; Cat. (1909) pp. 79-80; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1912, pt. IV, n. 2349 to G. D. Smith. Precise source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.
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