Béthune, Philippe de, comte de Selles et de Charost, 1561-1649, former owner Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715, former owner Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909, former owner
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Description
ff. 1-143v. [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-6v: Full calendar with an entry for each day; ff. 7-11: Pericopes of the Gospels; ff. 11v-16: Obsecro te and O Intemerata; f. 16v, ruled, but blank; ff. 17-67v: Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome; ff. 68-70v: Prayers to Jesus; ff. 71-72v: Short hours of the Cross, beginning imperfectly; ff. 73-75v: Short hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 76-88v: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 89-119v: Office of the Dead, use of Rome; ff. 120-135: Suffrages of Michael, John the Evangelist, Peter and Paul, James, Bartholomew, Stephen, Lawrence, Sebastian, Christopher, Ivo, Nicholas, Claude, Anthony abbot, the 10,000 Martyrs, Leonard, Anne, Mary Magdalene, Catherine of Alexandria, Margaret, Barbara, Apollonia, Avia, Genevieve, the 11,000 Virgins; ff. 135-143v: Prayers including the standard three in French and prayers for Communion. Book of Hours, use of Rome, written in France at the turn of the fifteenth century. Span folios: ff. 1-143v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1⁶ 2⁸ 3²(to f. 16) 4-5⁸ 6⁸(-8) 7-9⁸ 10⁸(-7) 11⁸(-1) 12-19⁸ 20². Catchwords written vertically along the inner bounding line. Ruled space, 107 x 60 mm; 22 long lines ruled in pale red ink. Written in a Bâtarde script. Decoration: Thirteen full page miniatures, in painted gold architectural frames, often with colored marble panels or columns. Thirty-two smaller miniatures, 11- or 10-line. In the calendar, illustrations of the monthly occupations with the zodiac symbols usually in monochrome blue. Major initials, 6-line, in white-patterned blue with infilling on gold ground of a realistic flower, the whole set against a red ground; 2- and 1-line painted gold initials against alternating brick-red or blue square grounds; line fillers in the same colors. Compartmentalized band borders the length of the text in outer margins of every page, traced through. Rubrics in a deep rose color. On f. ii recto, a small sketch of a man's head in profile. 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 early 17th century French red morocco with the arms and monogram of Philippe de Béthune (see J. Guigard, Nouvel Armorial du Bibliophile (Paris 1890) 2,56); marbled endpapers; gilt edges. HM 1181. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Extent
ff. i + i + 143 + i + i : parchment ; 120 x 175 mm.
Books of Hours France 15th century. (aat) Books of Hours France 16th century. (aat) Illuminations (Painting) France 15th century. (aat) Armorial bindings (Provenance). (rbprov) Manuscripts (documents) (aat)
Source
Manuscripts, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
Written for owners whose monograms BL and BI [?] tied with a lovers' knot, appear 24 times in the borders; one of the B's may indicate Bartholomew, a suffrage of that saint being included in this book. Owned by Philippe, comte de Béthune whose books passed to his son Hippolyte; he, in turn, bequeathed them to Louis XIV in 1658. Belonged to Robert Hoe, Cat. (1909) pp. 95-96; at that time kept in a wrapper of dark red striped silk and satin; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1912, pt. IV, n. 2337 to G. D. Smith. Precise date and source of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.
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