Turner, Dawson, 1775-1858, former owner Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909, former owner Lortic, Marcelin, 1822-1892, binder Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Manuscript. HM 1144
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Description
ff. 1-193v. [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-12v: Calendar with major feasts in red; ff. 13-21: [f. 13, blank], Fifteen Oes of St. Bridget; f. 21v, ruled, but blank; ff. 22-40v: [f. 22, blank], Prayer to the Trinity and suffrages of John the Baptist, George, Christopher, Anne, Mary Magdalene, Catherine of Alexandria, Margaret, Barbara; ff. 41-89v: [f. 41, blank], Incipiunt hore beate marie virginis secundum consuetudinem anglie, with, after lauds, suffrages of the Holy Spirit, the Trinity, the Cross, Michael, John the Baptist, Peter and Paul, Andrew, Lawrence, Stephen, Thomas of Canterbury (ff. 61v-62, erasures), Nicholas, Mary Magdalene, Catherine of Alexandria, Margaret, All Saints, for peace, and with the hours of the Cross worked in; ff. 89v-103: Fifteen Joys, farcing of the Salve Regina, O Intemerata, Obsecro te, Seven Joys; f. 103v, ruled, but blank; ff. 104-113: Prayers to God and to Christ; f. 113v, ruled, but blank; ff. 114-130v: [f. 109, blank on recto, with illumination of the Last Judgment on the verso, has been misbound and should be placed here], Penitential psalms, gradual psalms (cues only of the first 12), and litany; ff. 131-155: [f. 131, blank], Office of the Dead, Sarum use; f. 155v, ruled but blank; ff. 156-170: [f. 156, blank], Commendation of souls; f. 170v, ruled, but blank; ff. 171-177: [f. 171, blank], Psalms of the Passion; ff. 177-192v: Psalter of St. Jerome; f. 178v, ruled, but blank; f. 179, blank; f. 193r-v: ruled, but blank, except for prayers added, 17th century, including one in English. Book of Hours, Sarum use, written in the middle of the fifteenth century in Flanders, probably Bruges, for export to England. Span folios: ff. 1-193v. Support: Parchment. Layout: Bound too tightly to collate; all the full page miniatures appear to be on separate leaves. Ruled space, 102 x 64 mm; 18 long lines, ruled in purple ink on ff. 1-100v, 114-181v, and in pale red ink on ff. 101-113v, 182-193v; pricking usually visible in the lower margin. Written in a gothic book hand. Decoration: Twenty-three full page miniatures, on the versos of what are apparently inserted singletons, blank on the recto. Major initials, 6- or 5-line, in white-patterned blue against pink and gold grounds, or against a plain gold ground, with infilling of lush acanthus leaves, "English" in style; 2-line initials in gold on pink ground with blue infilling, or vice versa; 1-line initials, blue with red penwork, or gold with black. Line fillers in the litany in alternating rows of blue or gold squiggles. 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 Lortic for Robert Hoe in brown mosaic morocco in 1884, from a previous binding of "old velvet," according to a note on f. iii signed by Hoe; red morocco doublures; gilt edges. HM 1144. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Extent
ff. ii + ii + 193 + ii + ii : parchment ; 135 x 192 mm.
On f. 1, 16th century, is the note "Jesus have marci a pon us/ Johannes busshells boke tayller," and below this, the name "Arthur," erased. The book was n. 606 in an English book dealer's catalogue, and later, apparently, belonged to Dawson Turner, who signed a slip of paper quoting Sir Francis Palgrave, Sir Frederic Madden, and Mr. Shaw on the date and origin of the manuscript; these opinions are dated 1832 and 1835; Dawson Turner sale, London, 7 March 1853, n. 1880 to Pickering. Robert Hoe signed and dated the same slip mentioned above with his date of purchase[?], 1872 (See Robert Hoe, A Lecture on Bookbinding as a Fine Art, delivered before the Grolier Club February 26, 1885 (Grolier Club 1886) pl. 58; Grolier Club (1892) n. 17; Bierstadt (1895) p. 25; Cat. (1909) pp. 50-52); his sale, Anderson, New York, 1911, pt. I, n. 2129 to G. D. Smith. Source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.
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