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ff. 1-205v [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-12v: Calendar in French; f. 13r-v, ruled as for a calendar, but blank; ff. 14-22: [f. 14, blank], Short hours of the Cross; f. 22v, ruled, but blank; ff. 23-29v: [f. 23, blank], Short hours of the Holy Spirit; f. 30r-v, ruled, but blank; ff. 31-102: [f. 31, blank], Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome; f. 102v, ruled, but blank; ff. 103-121: [f. 103, blank], Penitential psalms and litany; f. 121v, ruled, but blank; ff. 122-166: Office of the Dead, use of Rome; f. 166v, ruled, but blank; ff. 167-190: Obsecro te, O Intemerata and other prayers; ff. 190v-200: Suffrages of the Trinity, Peter and Paul, Sebastian, Anthony abbot, Adrianus, Piatus, Mary Magdalene, Julianus, Catherine of Alexandria, Barbara, Holy Spirit, Roch; ff. 200-204v: Prayers especially for the Eucharist. f. 205r-v, blank. Book of Hours, use of Rome, written in the early sixteenth century in Flanders, possibly for use in the diocese of Tournai, given the presence of Piatus twice in the calendar and in the suffrage, and the three entries for Eleutherius in the calendar. Also includes northern spellings, bietremieu, mahieu, franchois (in the calendar), tierche, lichon and there are feminine forms used in the prayers. Span folios: ff. 1-205v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1 (of uncertain structure up to f. 5) 2⁸ 3⁸(+1, f. 14) 4⁸(+1, f. 23 and 9, f. 31) 5⁸ 6⁸(+3, f. 43) 7⁸(+7, f. 56) 8⁸ 9⁸(+6, f. 72) 10⁸(+3, f. 78) 11⁸(+3, f. 87 and 9, f. 93; with catchword "Domine ne" which refers to quire 13, the beginning of the Penitential psalms) 12⁸(ff. 95-102, the weekly variations of psalms at matins) 13⁸(+1, f. 103) 14-22⁸ 23⁶(+4, f. 187) 24⁸ 25⁸(-8). Catchwords usually cropped, written in the inner right corner; quire and leaf signatures, often cropped, as letters of the alphabet and roman numerals. Ruled space, 94 x 66 mm; 15 long lines, ruled in purple ink; pricking in all 3 outer margins. Written in a gothic book hand. Decoration: Full page miniatures, executed on the versos of inserted singletons, blank on the rectos; 11 are extant; presumably another 3 were once in the manuscript for terce, sext and the Office of the Dead. One 11-line miniature, f. 177. Fourteen 7-line miniatures.1-line initials of painted gold on blue or maroon square grounds. Rubrics in red. 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 by F. Bedford in brown morocco, gilt and blind stamped; gilt edges. HM 1149. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Extent
ff. ii + ii + 205 + ii : parchment ; 117 x 167 mm.
On f. i, two sixteenth century possession notes, the first identifying the owner of the book as the "vefve Franchois houselot"; in the second, the owner "yhalian[?] hogheselot" of Lille declares to have received this book from her grandmother in 1571. Belonged to William Bragge, F.S.A., of Shirle Hall, Sheffield; his sale, Sotheby's, 7 June 1876, lot 480 to the dealer B. F. Stevens. Belonged to Robert Hoe, Grolier Club (1892) n. 23; Cat. (1909) pp. 55-56; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1912, pt. IV, n. 2341 to G. D. Smith. Precise source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.
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