summary
Book of Hours, use of Amiens
note (text)
F. 28-83v°= Off. B. M. V. (avec 9 lect.); F. 110-154v°= Off. Defunct.; (CCLL)
leaf dimensions : height (mm)
196
leaf dimensions : width (mm)
146
justification : height (mm)
95
justification : width (mm)
66
note (deco)
4-line initials in white-decorated blue or pink on a gold ground infilled with colored trilobe leaves. 2-and 1-line initials in gold on white-patterned dark pink or blue grounds with infilling of the other color; ribbon line fillers of the same colors. Rubrics in an orange-tinged red. Traced borders on every page the length of the text. Quire 19 (ff. 151-58) with different border and miniature.
binding
Bound, s. XVIex, in French brown morocco tooled in silver with leaf sprays and interlaced fillets, originally 2 fore edge straps to pins on lower cover, only 1 remains; gilt edges.
origDate : proposed date
From : 1450 (CCLL) To : 1500 (CCLL)
provenance
Written during the second half of the fifteenth century for use in Amiens, presumably for a man and wife, as suggested by the miniature on f. 155. On the front pastedown is the bookplate of John Ragsdale, s. XVIII. Belonged to Robert Hoe: Cat. (1909) p. 53; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1911, pt. I, n. 2132 to G. D. Smith. Precise source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.
Clark Obsecro Te transcription (lit_manuscripts 1) (HORAE)
Yes
