textLang
Latin (LA, LAT)French (FR, FRE)
summary
Book of Hours, use of Paris
note (text)
F. 19-63v°= Off. B. M. V.; F. 81v°-108v°= Off. Defunct.; (CCLL)
extent
I+VI+127+VI+II ff. (CCLL)
leaf dimensions : height (mm)
170
leaf dimensions : width (mm)
124
justification : height (mm)
110
justification : width (mm)
62
scriptNote
Gothic with humanistic spacing
note (deco)
Thirteen large miniatures above 4 lines of text, enclosed by painted gold architectural frames; both text and miniature surrounded by full borders of painted gold with multicolored acanthus leaf foliage and grotesques. Smaller miniatures, 8 to 12-line. Calendar miniatures with occupations of the month and the zodiac sign.
binding
Bound by Bernard David and finished by Marius Michel for the person who carefully wrote out notes in French regarding the manuscript on the front and back flyleaves; the notes are dated January 1866 and are signed "E.S." (?). Brown morocco binding inlaid with various colors to an entrelac design, green morocco doublures elaborately tooled in the style of Eve; gilt edges gauffered with acanthus and grotesque patterns based on the borders of the manuscript; brown morocco slipcase.
provenance
Written in the early sixteenth century in France, where it remained at least through the middle of the nineteenth century. De Ricci suggests that it was bound for William Martin, although it does not appear in Martin's 1869 sale; on f. i verso, the morocco book label of Henri Bordes; not traced in his sales. Belonged to Robert Hoe, Grolier Club (1892) n. 38 with a plate of f. 19; Cat. (1909) pp. 79-80; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1912, pt. IV, n. 2349 to G. D. Smith. Precise source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.
