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Description
ff. 1-121v: [Book of Hours] ff. 1-6v: Full calendar; ff. 7-14: Pericopes of the Gospels and the Obsecro te; f. 14v, ruled, but blank; ff. 15-66v: Hours of the Virgin of undetermined use with hours of the Cross and of the Holy Spirit worked in; ff. 67-79v: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 80-118: Office of the Dead of undetermined use. ff. 118v-121v, blank. Book of Hours written at the end of the fifteenth century in France, but of undetermined liturgical use, with general calendary and litany. Span folios: ff. 1-121v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1⁶ 2⁸(through f. 14) 3-8⁸ 9⁴(through f. 66) 10-15⁸ + unclear structure of ff. 115-121. Evidence of catchwords written in a cursive script in the lower right margin. Ruled space, 94, x 53 mm; 21 long lines, ruled in pale red ink. Written in a Bâtarde script. Decoration: Twelve large miniatures, the width of the page, with the 3 lines of text superimposed as if a label at the bottom of the picture. All but one of the miniatures in half-length close-up, highlighted with fine gold hatching in a style influenced by Jean Bourdichon. In the calendar, miniatures of the signs of the zodiac and the monthly occupations. Other decoration: Band borders on every page, traced through, with acanthus leaves, flowers, birds or insects or grotesques. Major initials, 4- and 3-line, as white leaves with gold infilling on a gold-petterned brick-red ground; 2- and 1-line initials in gold on white-patterned blue grounds, or in blue on gold-patterned red grounds, or as white leaves infilled with a bird or insect against a gold-patterned red ground. Ribbon line fillers in blue and white, or in red and gold, or as gold logs. Rubrics in blue. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 10/18/2009. 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 green velvet, rebacked, over wooden boards; gauffered gilt edges. HM 1250. 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
On the first front and back flyleaf the same name has been written and crossed out; on the front is also the date"ce 26 Sept. 1811" and several flourishes, all in the same ink as the name. A note in French on the front pastedown discusses text and miniatures. Belonged to Robert Hoe, Grolier Club (1892) n. 24; Cat. (1909) pp. 89-90, where it is said to be in a"modern case of brown morocco"; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1912, pt. IV n. 2351 to G. D. Smith. Precise source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.
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