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Description
ff. 1-165v [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-12v: Full calendar in French alternating red and blue with major feasts in gold; ff. 13-25v: Pericopes of the Gospels, with the Obsecro te and the O Intemerata; ff. 26-46v: House of the Virgin, use of Paris; misbound and should be read as follows: 26-46v and 78r-v, matins, with the weekly variations of the psalms set into the text before the lessons; ff. 79-101, lauds through sext; ff. 101v, 105, 104, 102, none; ff. 103, 108, 109, 107, 106, 47, vespers; ff. 48-52 [f. 52v, ruled, but blank], compline; ff. 53-70v: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 71-74: Short hours of the Cross; ff. 74v-77: Short hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 77v: Office of the Dead, misbound and should be read as follows: ff. 77v, 112, 111, 110, 113, 114, 117, 116, 115, 118-150; ff. 150v-157: Suffrages of the Trinity, Michael, John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Peter and Paul, Sebastian, Nicholas, Anne, Catherine of Alexandria, Margaret, Genevieve; f. 157v, ruled, but blank; ff. 158-165v: Prayers in French. Book of Hours, use of Paris, written in France in the early sixteenth century. Span folios: ff. 1-165v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-2⁶ 3⁸(+1, f. 13) 4⁸(+5, f. 26) 5-6⁸ 7⁶(ff. 47-52) 8⁸(+1, f. 53) 9-10⁸(through f. 77) 11-13⁸ 14⁸(ff. 102-109) 15⁸(ff. 110-117) 16-20⁸(through f. 157) 21⁸. Ruled space, 86 x 52 mm; 17 long lines, ruled in pale brown ink. Written in a gothic book hand, apparently by a second scribe on ff. 158-165v. Decoration: Three full page illuminations on the versos of inserted singletons, blank on the recto; large miniatures above 4 lines of text; some 9- and 8-line illuminations; in the calendar, miniatures of the monthly occupation on the recto, and the zodiac sign on the verso. 3- and 2-line initials, white-patterned blue with colored trilobe leaves or balls as infilling against a burnished gold ground; 1-line initials in gold with either pink or blue infilling against ground of the other color; ribbon line fillers and balls (for the same purpose) in the same colors. Rubrics in blue. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/13/2009. 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 deep red morocco with some gold tooling; gilt edges. HM 1133. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Books of Hours France 16th century. (aat) Illuminations (Painting) France 16th century (aat) Manuscripts (documents) (aat)
Source
Manuscripts, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
On the front pastedown is the modern armorial bookplate of Matthew Ellison, Hadfield; with the manuscript is an American book dealer's slip, numbered 90, identifying the binder as Deseuil.
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