Augustus Frederick, Prince, Duke of Sussex, 1773-1843, former owner Lawrence, Edwin Henry, former owner Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909, former owner Bedford Master Workshop, artist Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Manuscript. HM 1100
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ff. 1-214v. [Book of Hours, use of Paris]: ff. 1-12v: full calendar in French; ff. 13-26v: pericopes of the Gospels, Obsecro te and O intemerata (masculine forms); ff. 28-96: Hours of the Virgin, use of Paris [ff. 96v-97v, blank]; ff. 98-118v: penitential psalms and litany; ff. 119-126v: Short hours of the Cross; ff. 127-133v: Short hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 134-181v: Office of the Dead, use of Paris; ff. 182-191: prayers in French [f. 191r-v, blank]; ff. 192-211v: suffrages of the Trinity, All Saints, the Assumption of the Virgin, the Cross, Michael, John the Baptist, Peter and Paul, Andrew, John the Evangelist, James the Greater, Thomas the Apostle, Bartholomew, Matthew the Evangelist, Simon and Jude, Matthias, Luke, Mark, Stephen, Lawrence, Vincent, Denis, Christopher, George, Martin, Nicholas, Maurus, Anthony abbot, Fiacre, Catherine of Alexandria, Margaret, Genevieve, Mary Magdalene, Anne [ff. 212-214v, blank]. Book of hours, use of Paris, written in the middle of the fifteenth century in France, probably Paris. Span folios: ff. 1-214v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1¹² 2⁸ 3⁸(-2, after f. 21) 4-11⁸ 12⁶(through f. 97) 13-23⁸ 24⁶(through f. 191) 25-26⁸ 27⁸(-8). Catchwords in a small careful gothic script in the center of the lower margin. Ruled space, 107 x 65 mm; 15 long lines, ruled in a rather vivid pink; pricking occasionally present in the upper and lower margins. Written in two sizes of gothic script, according to liturgical function. Decoration: Nineteen large miniatures usually in arched compartments above 4 lines of text; most borders consist of a decorated wide gold band in a U-shape around both text and miniature, with an outer border of ivy vine and regularly arranged, brightly colored acanthus leaves and flowers. The miniatures and by several artists of the workshop of the Master of the Duke of Bedford. Small miniatures in the margins, unframed and based on green grass, approximately 40 x 20 mm. In the calendar: in the lower margin of the recto a miniature of the monthly occupation, and in the middle of the outer margin of the recto a roundel with the zodiac sign. 4-line initials for the first 3 Gospel extracts, and 3-, 2-, and 1-line initials in white-patterned blue on burnished gold grounds with trilobe leaf infilling; the 3-line initials on ff. 52, 98, 119 and 182 against rose-colored grounds; ribbon line fillers in the same colors and in many designs; initials within the text touched in yellow. Blue rubrics for the Gospel sequences and the 2 prayers to the Virgin, thereafter in red. 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). Given by John Webb to Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex; in the Bibliotheca Sussexiana, A Descriptive Catalogue...of the Manuscripts and Printed Books contained in the Library of His Royal Highness, the Duke of Sussex, by Thomas J. Pettigrew (London 1827) vol. I, pt. 1, n. 129 with a plate of f. 134; his sale, Evans, London, 31 July 1844, pt. II, n. 187 to James Baker; his sale, London, 24 May 1855, n. 473 to Edwin Henry Lawrence; his sale, Sotheby's, 9 May 1892, n. 303 to Quaritch. Acquired by Robert Hoe: Bierstadt (1895) 25-27 with a plate of f. 63v; Cat. (1909) pp. 61-62 ; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1911, pt. I, n. 2130 to G. D. Smith; Smith Cat. [n. 2, 1912?] n. 119 to Henry E. Huntington in April 1912. (CSmH) Bound in the 19h century by Charles Smith in worn red velvet with 2 silver-gilt fore edge clasps and four corner-pieces; light blue watered silk doublures and endpapers, dentelle elaborately tooled; gilt edges. This binding, apparently defective, was taken apart in 1945[?]; the book now kept in loose quires in a case. HM 1100. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Books of Hours France 15th century. (aat) Illuminations (Painting) France 15th century. (aat) Manuscripts (documents) (aat)
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Given by John Webb to Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex; in the Bibliotheca Sussexiana, A Descriptive Catalogue...of the Manuscripts and Printed Books contained in the Library of His Royal Highness, the Duke of Sussex, by Thomas J. Pettigrew (London 1827) vol. I, pt. 1, n. 129 with a plate of f. 134; his sale, Evans, London, 31 July 1844, pt. II, n. 187 to James Baker; his sale, London, 24 May 1855, n. 473 to Edwin Henry Lawrence; his sale, Sotheby's, 9 May 1892, n. 303 to Quaritch. Acquired by Robert Hoe: Bierstadt (1895) 25-27 with a plate of f. 63v; Cat. (1909) pp. 61-62 ; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1911, pt. I, n. 2130 to G. D. Smith; Smith Cat. [n. 2, 1912?] n. 119 to Henry E. Huntington in April 1912. (CSmH)
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