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Description
ff. 1-78v: [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-6v: Calendar in French; ff. 7-32v: Hours of the Virgin presumably of the use of St. Quentin; ff. 33-35: Short hours of the Cross; ff. 35v-38v: Short hours of the Holy Spirit and suffrages of Anthony abbot and Sebastian; ff. 39-48v: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 49-63v: Office of the Dead with 3 lessons at matins; ff. 64-69: Prayers and suffrages of Anne, Michael, Quentin and Adrian; ff. 69-70v and by tie mark to f. 74r-v: Prayer of confession and repentance in French added in a different hand; f. 71r-v: Prayer to the Virgin in French, added by a third hand; ff. 72-76: Obsecro te and O Intemerata, both added by a fourth hand; f. 76v, blank; f. 77r-v: Prayer to the Virgin in French, added by a fifth hand. f. 78r-v, blank. Book of Hours written in France probably for use in St. Quentin, in the second half of the fifteenth century. Span folios: ff. 1-78v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1⁶ 2-9⁸(through f. 70) 10 (ff. 71-78, of uncertain structure, stitching between ff. 74-75; ff. 75-76 constitute a bifolium; f. 77v bears the offset of a full border of black ivy spray which evidently included some blue acanthus). No catchwords or signatures visible. Ruled space, 110 x 75 mm; 22 long lines, ruled in pale red ink, except for ff. 75-76v, ruled in purple ink; pricking visible in all 3 outer margins. Written in a Bâtarde script in two sizes, according to liturgical function. Decoration: Thirteen large miniatures above 8 lines of text, all with a pinkish hue to the coloring; in some, the faces have been outlined in black ink at a later date. Some smaller miniatures. Major initials, 6- and 5-line, as white shaded ribbons, enclosing naturalistic flowers on a gold ground, the outer ground of brick red decorated in gold. On the miniature pages, where the major initials occur, 2- and 1-line initials and line fillers often in painted gold on brick red or blue grounds; this style also for the 3-line initials. 1-line initials in burnished gold on alternating blue or dark pink grounds with infilling of the other color; initials within the text touched in yellow. Rubrics occasionally in blue or gold through f. 14; thereafter only in pale red. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 10/17/2009. 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 modern dark red velvet with an earlier silver-gilt fore edge clasp; red silk endpapers; gilt edges. HM 1172. 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
Belonged to E. Dwight Church; in his Catalogue . . . of English Literature (1909) vol. 1, n. 405, with plate of f. 35v. Acquired by Henry E. Huntington with the Church collection in 1911.
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