Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587, former owner Butler, Charles, 1821-1910, former owner Bixby, William K. (William Keeney), 1857-1931, former owner Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Manuscript. HM 1200
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ff. 1-162v [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-12v: Calendar, rather empty, in French; ff. 13-20: Pericopes of the Gospels and O Intemerata; f. 20v, ruled, but blank; ff. 21-25: [f. 21, blank], Short hours of the Cross; f. 25v, ruled, but blank; ff. 26-30: [f. 26, blank], Short hours of the Holy Spirit; f. 30v, ruled, but blank; ff. 31-85: [f. 31, blank], Hours of the Virgin; f. 85v, ruled, but blank; ff. 86-87: Salve sancta facies; f. 87v, ruled, but blank; ff. 88-106v: [f. 88, blank], Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 107-132: [f. 107, blank], Office of the Dead with only 3 lessons at matins; ff. 132v-134v, ruled, but blank; ff. 135-137v: Mass of the Virgin; f. 138r-v, ruled, but blank; ff. 139-149v: Prayers to the Virgin beginning with the Obsecro te, and including prayers to the Holy Spirit and to God the Father, followed by the Athanasian Creed; ff. 150-160v: Suffrages of the Trinity, Michael, John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Peter and Paul, All Apostles, James the Greater, Christopher, Sebastian, Lawrence, Anthony abbot, Nicholas, Adrianus, Francis, Mary Magdalene, Catherine of Alexandria, Barbara, Margaret. ff. 161-162v, blank. Book of Hours, liturgical use undetermined, written in the middle of the fifteenth century in Flanders. The miniatures may not have been originally intended for this book, since the borders don't match; those for sext and none appear reversed, with the Presentation in the Temple preceding the Adoration of the Magi; all the full-page miniatures have been repainted. Span folios: ff. 1-162v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1¹² 2⁸ 3⁸(+1, f. 21 and 6, f. 26) 4¹⁰(+1, f. 31) 5¹⁰(+10, f. 51) 6¹⁰(+5, f. 57 and 10, f. 62) 7¹⁰(+3, f. 67 and 8, f. 72) 8¹⁰(+4, f. 80) 9¹⁰(+1, f. 88) 10⁸ 11¹⁰(+1, f. 107) 12¹⁰ 13⁸(-5, excised by the scribe; through f. 134) 14¹⁰(-8 and 10, both excised by the scribe) 15-16¹⁰. One catchword survives, in a small cursive hand in the inner corner of f. 117v. Ruled space, 104 x 71 mm; 18 long lines, ruled in purple ink with the top and bottom 2 lines full across; pricking visible in all 3 outer margins. Written in two sizes of a gothic book hand. Decoration: Eleven full page miniatures on the versos of inserted singletons, blank on the recto, related in style to those of the Master of Guillebert de Mets and the Master of the Privileges of Ghent; the borders on the facing text pages do not match those on the illuminated pages. The miniatures were repainted in varying degree, perhaps in the seventeenth century. Historiated initials, usually 3-line, not repainted. Major initials on text pages facing the miniatures, 7- or 6-line, white-patterned blue or pink on burnished gold grounds, with infilling of shaded leaves of many colors. 6-line initial, a 5-line initial, and the 4-, 3-, and 2-line initials in burnished gold on parted pink and blue grounds. 1-line initials in gold on blue grounds with pink infilling, or vice versa; ribbon line fillers of the same colors. Rubrics in pale pink. 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 16th century pink velvet, very worn, over wooden boards; 2 gilt fore edge clasps; gilt edges; offset of binding reinforcement, apparently a late 15th century document in French on inside front cover and on the recto of the now lifted pastedown. HM 1200. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
A possession note on the back flyleaf identifies a late sixteenth century owner as Johannes Hullandt; in another inscription, ca. 1600[?], Carolus Hullandt "vicecomes Rolariensis villae" (Rousselaere?) gives the book to Catarina van Huerne. On the front flyleaf, f. i verso, are pious phrases and the inscription "Vertu pour guide, Jacqueline van." On f. ii verso, the inscriptions, "This Book belonged to Queen Mary of Scotland And shee used it at her death upon the Scaffold" (legible only under ultra-violet light), and "The above the Hand writing of King James the [?]2," (19th c.). A letter from Charles Browne Mostyn to Sir Gregory O. Page-Turner dated 1822 repeats this information, adding that the book eventually passed to the Scots College in Paris, where Mostyn obtained it during the Revolution. The letter, once loose in the manuscript, is now shelved as HM 46702. Sold at the Page-Turner sale, Battlesden House, 19 October 1824, probably n. 2524; Samuel Addington sale, Sotheby's, 24 May 1886, n. 285 to Nattali; belonged to Charles Butler; his sale, Sotheby's, 18 March 1912, pt. III, n. 2377 to Sabin. Purchased from the Minneapolis bookseller and collector, Edmund D. Brooks by William K. Bixby of St. Louis (St. Louis Republic, 18 March 1917, Feature section, p. 1). Acquired from him by Henry E. Huntington through G. D. Smith in August 1918.
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