RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time. For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description
ff. 1-136v [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-12v: Full calendar in French; ff. 13-22: Pericopes of the Gospels and the Obsecro te; f. 22v, ruled, but blank; ff. 23-66v: Hours of the Virgin, use of Paris; ff. 67-68v, ruled, but blank; ff. 69-86: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 86v-89v: Short hours of the Cross; ff. 90-92v: Short hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 93-121: Office of the Dead, use of Paris; ff. 121-135: Prayers in French and suffrages of Michael, John the Baptist, James the Greater, Christopher, Sebastian, Nicholas, Anthony abbot, Catherine of Alexandria, Margaret, Barbara. ff. 135v-136v, blank. Book of Hours written for use in Paris in the second half of the fifteenth century. Span folios: ff. 1-136v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-2⁶ 3-9⁸(through f. 68) 10-12⁸(through f. 92) 13-17⁸ 18⁶(-5, 6). Catchwords have occasionally survived cropping and appear in the script of the text in the center lower margin. Ruled space, 90 x 57 mm; 16 long lines, ruled in pale red ink. Written in a gothic book hand. Decoration: Five large miniatures above 4 lines of text. Seven smaller miniatures, 50 x 38 mm., possibly by a different artist set in the left corner of the text block. 3-line initials in white-patterned blue on gold grounds with colored trilobe leaf infilling; 2- and 1-line initials in gold on dark pink grounds with blue infilling or vice versa; ribbon line fillers in the same colors; initials within the text touched in yellow. Rubrics in dark pink. 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 in 16th century French calf with gold tooling and the name ""Marie"" (front cover) ""De Rebergues"" (back cover); 2 sets of holes on the edges of the front and back covers from fore edge clasps; other holes on both covers from central bosses; gilt edges. HM 1154. 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
Names of early owners on the back pastedown: Manon dargilliere, francoise dargilliere. A sixteenth century owner was apparently Marie de Rebergues, whose name is stamped on the cover. A cancelled note on f. i identifies a seventeenth century owner as Anne Sa[?] Gaultier of Clermont, who obtained the book from her great-grandmother. Belonged to James Dix of Bristol; his sale, Sotheby's, 11 February 1870, lot 257 to Stevens. In the collection of E. Dwight Church; see his Catalogue . . . of English Literature (1909) vol. 1, n. 406 with a plate of f. 93. The Church collection was acquired by Henry E. Huntington in 1911.
If you're wondering about permissions and what you can do with this item, a good starting point is the "rights information" on this page. See our terms of use for more tips.
Share your story
Has Calisphere helped you advance your research, complete a project, or find something meaningful? We'd love to hear about it; please send us a message.
