Master of Morgan 85, active 1490-1520, artist Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528 Crawford, William Horatio, 1815?-1888, former owner Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909, former owner Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Manuscript. HM 1124
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ff. 1-189v [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-12v: full calendar; ff. 13-20: Mass of the Virgin, with the prayers, Obsecro te and O Intemerata, and a suffrage of Roch [f. 20v blank]; ff. 21-36: pericopes of the Gospels, and Passion according to John; ff. 36-99v: Hours of the Virgin "secundum usum romane curie"; ff. 99v-105: Hours of the Conception [f. 105v, blank]; ff. 106-109v: Short hours of the Cross; ff. 109v-118: prayer and the Athanasian Creed; ff. 118-122v: Short hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 122v-139v: penitential psalms and litany; ff. 139v-171: Office of the Dead, use of Rome; ff. 171-188v: prayers and suffrages of Michael, of one's guardian angel, all angels, Paul, John, Andrew, James, Lawrence, Vincent, Sebastian, Stephen, George, Christopher (in the prayer of this suffrage, f. 179, feminine forms have been added above the masculine, possibly in the hand of the scribe), Ambrose, Gregory, Jerome, Augustine, Francis, Anthony of Padua, Dominic, Benedict, many martyrs, Catherine, Lucia, Barbara, Agatha, Apollonia, Mary Magdalene, Ursula and the 11,000 virgins, Genevieve, Anne. Explicit on f. 188v: Horas presentes fecit facere litteratissimus vir magister franciscus de mello pro sorore sua domina maria Manuel. [f. 189r-v, blank] Book of Hours, use of Rome, written in France at the beginning of the sixteenth century at the order of Franciscus de Mello for his sister, Maria Manuel. Span folios: ff. 1-189v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1⁸ 2⁴ 3⁸(through f. 20) 4-6⁸ 7⁸(+7, f. 51) 8-11⁸ 12⁶(through f. 91) 13-14⁴ 15⁶(through f. 105) 16⁸ 17⁸(+9, f. 122) 18-25⁸ + 3 leaves; catchwords occasionally present in inner right corner. Ruled space, 123 x 70 mm; 20 long lines ruled in pale red ink. Written in a humanistic script varying in size according to liturgical function. Decoration: Twenty-five full page miniatures, set within painted gold architectural frames by the illuminator referred to as the Master of Morgan 85. Miniatures may derive from woodcuts of Albrecht Dürer (cf. his "Small Woodcut Passion," datable ca. 1509-11, as the source of the miniature on f. 65v). Those depicting sorrowful scenes are in grisaille, and tend to be on a somewhat larger scale than the full color illustrations. Most of the grisaille pages are on the verso and face a full color illumination on the recto for the Hours of the Virgin. Calendar decoration consists of illustrations of the monthly occupations on the recto and of the signs of the zodiac on the verso. Initials, 3- or 2-line, in white acanthus on a gold ground, or in colors on a colored ground with infilling of flowers or berries on gold; 1-line initials, gold, on a ground alternating red, blue or light brown; ribbon line fillers in colors with many variations or as gold logs. The rubrics alternate line by line gold, red, and blue. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/10/2009. 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 18th century Dutch or Flemish red morocco, with elaborate gilt tooling of a center rosette, fans at the angles, and scattered cupid's heads, roosters, birds, bees, flowers; green silk book marks and sheets protecting the full page illustrations; gilt edges; original green slip case, tooled with the same fan pattern at the angles. HM 1124. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
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Written at the order of Franciscus de Mello for his sister, Maria Manuel, as stated in the colophon on f. 188v, where there is also a coat of arms: per pale: 1, gules two bars or and six roundels argent, 2, 2 and 2; 2, gules a lion rampant or; the dexter side is similar to the impaled shield for Mello e Castro in Rietstap, vol. 4, pl. 183, which is gules a double traverse cross and six roundels argent, 2, 2, and 2. Belonged to William Horatio Crawford of Lakelands, Cork; his sale, Sotheby's, 12 March 1891, lot 1609 to Quaritch; acquired at that time by Robert Hoe: Grolier Club (1892) n. 99 (proof sheet for that catalogue entry remaining with the manuscript); Cat. 1909 pp. 90-92; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1912, pt. IV, n. 2344 with plate of f. 65v, to G. D. Smith. Source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.
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