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ff. 1-177v. [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-11v: Calendar, missing the month of January; ff. 12-19v: Stabat mater, Obsecro te, O Intemerata; ff. 20-35: Suffrages of the Trinity, John the Baptist, All Angels, Michael, Nicholas, Francis, Anthony of Padua, John the Evangelist, Sebastian, Jerome, Anne, Catherine of Alexandria, Agnes, Apollonia, Elizabeth, Barbara, Mary Magdalene, Margaret, Leonard; f. 35v, ruled, but blank; ff. 36-42v: Short hours of the Cross; ff. 43-48v: Short hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 49-55v: Pericopes of the Gospels; ff. 56-120v: Incipiunt hore beate marie virginis secundum cursum romane ecclesie; ff. 121-136: Penitential psalms and litany; f. 136v, ruled, but blank except for a 16th century prayer added; ff. 137-177v: Office of the Dead, use of Rome. Book of Hours, use of Rome, written in Flanders, probably Ghent, in the late fifteenth century. Span folios: ff. 1-177v. Support: Parchment. Layout: Collation includes the added singletons, now missing, 1⁶(-1) 2⁸(-7, 8) 3-5⁸ 6⁸(-2 added singletons, before the first and eighth leaf, ff. 36 and 43) 7⁸ 8⁴(to f. 55) 9⁸(-an added singleton, before the first leaf, f. 56) 10⁸ 11⁸(-an added singleton, before the second leaf, f. 73) 12⁸(-an added singleton, before the fifth leaf, f. 84) 13⁸(-2 added singletons, before the second and sixth leaf, ff. 89 and 93) 14⁸(-2 added singletons, before the second and sixth leaf, ff. 97 and 101) 15⁸(-an added singleton, before the fifth leaf, f. 108) 16²(-1, to f. 112) 17⁸ 18⁸(-an added singleton, before the first leaf, f. 121) 19⁸ 20⁸(-an added singleton, before the first leaf, f. 137) 21-23⁸ 24⁸(+1 added singleton at the end, f. 177). A cropped quire-leaf signature on f. 66, apparently "h3." Ruled space, 90 x 60 mm; 16 long lines, ruled in pale red ink, with some pricking visible in the upper and lower margins. Written in a formal Bâtarde script. Decoration: Twelve full page miniatures, which were all on inserted singletons and presumably blank on the recto, have been cut from the manuscript. The remaining illuminations are those of prayers, suffrages and Gospel pericopes, usually 6-line, in grisaille technique of shaded whites, highlighted in gold, often set against gold-patterned maroon drapes. A number of the miniatures, although simpler in execution, have followed the same model as certain miniatures attributed to the Master of Mary of Burgundy. Full borders on the leaves with extant miniatures and on the leaves facing the removed miniatures, with ground of gold paint dabbed over a colored surface or of a color (pink, blue-grey, red, yellow-green), and decorated with realistic flowers, insects, and branchy acanthus leaves. Facing the presumably excised full page illuminations are 6- or 5-line initials, as white or brown branches and leaves, highlighted in gold against a square brick-red or brownish-green ground, lightly stippled in gold, infilled on f. 56 with a bird pecking at a daisy, or with a flower alone. Minor initials, 2- or 1-line, of white branches against square brown grounds, stippled in gold, with the same colors used for the ribbon line fillers in the litany. 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 in late 17th century French parchment over pasteboard. HM 1148. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
N. 632 in a sale (not Brayton Ives, 1891, according to De Ricci). Belonged to Robert Hoe, Grolier Club (1892) n. 49 with a plate of f. 23; Cat. (1909) pp. 92-93; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1912, pt. IV, n. 2342 to G. D. Smith. Precise source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.
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