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Description
ff. 1-170v. [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-6v: Full calendar; ff. 7-28v: Pericopes of the Gospels, followed by the Obsecro te and the O Intemerata (masculine forms); ff. 29-88v: Hours of the Virgin, use of Paris; ff. 89-96: Short hours of the Cross; ff. 96v-101v: Short hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 102-118: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 118v-160v: Office of the Dead, use of Paris; ff. 161-170v: Suffrages of Michael, John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Peter and Paul, Lawrence, Eustachius, Fiacre, Nicholas, Claude, Anthony abbot, Maurus, Mary Magdalene, Catherine of Alexandria, Margaret, Genevieve. Book of Hours, use of Paris, written in France during the first half of the sixteenth century. Span folios: ff. 1-170v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1⁶ 2-3⁸ 4⁶(through f. 28) 5-6⁸ 7-8⁴ 9² 10⁴ 11-13⁸ 14⁶(through f. 88) 15-19⁸ 20⁶ 21⁸(-8, cancelled by the scribe) 22-23⁸ 24⁶ 25⁸(+9, f. 170). Catchwords in center lower margin in script of text. Ruled space, 104 x 63 mm, 18 long lines, ruled in pale red ink. Written in two sizes of a rather round gothic script, but with a humanistic sense of spacing. Decoration: Thirteen large miniatures above 4 lines of text, usually framed by colored columns and with gold tracery at the top of the arch. Twenty-one smaller miniatures, in narrow rectangles, enclosed by colored columns and gold tracery at the top. The calendar with illustrations of the monthly occupation in the outer border and of the sign of the zodiac in the lower. Traced borders in the outer margin of every page, running the length of the text, usually compartmentalized, but occasionally entirely of painted gold backgrounds, the borders often contain grotesques. Rubrics in blue. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 10/13/2009. 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 late 16th century French gilt calf, evidence of 2 fore edge clasps, gilt edges. HM 1168. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Books of hours France 16th century. (aat) Illuminations (Painting) France 16th century. (aat) Grotesques France 16th century. (aat) Manuscripts (documents) (aat)
Source
Manuscripts, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
An inscription on the front pastedown shows the manuscript to have belonged to J. G. Smyth, clerk, of St. Gregory's, Norwich in 1790, and to have been given by him on 3 August 1830 to Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, in whose library it bore the shelf mark, VI.H.h.8 (not in the Bibliotheca Sussexiana, London 1827, because of the late date of acquisition), sale of the Duke of Sussex, Evans, London, 1844, pt. II, n. 188 to Thorpe. Belonged to Robert Hoe, Grolier Club (1892) n. 20, Cat. (1909) pp. 42-43, his sale, Anderson, New York, 1912, pt. III, n. 2073 to G. D. Smith. Precise source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.
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