summary
Book of Hours, use of Utrecht
leaf dimensions : height (mm)
125
leaf dimensions : width (mm)
176
justification : height (mm)
110
justification : width (mm)
76
note (deco)
Elaborate penwork decoration of the type produced at St. Agnes in Delft.
binding
Bound by Mercier for Robert Hoe in brown morocco with gold tooling and parchment doublures, with the monogram "RH"; gauffered and gilt edges.
origPlace : proposed origin
Netherlands
provenance
Written in the second half of the fifteenth century; the decoration in this manuscript associates it with those produced in the convent of St. Agnes in Delft. Belonged to Robert Hoe Cat. (1909): p. 28; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1912, pt. III, nn. 2066 and 2067 (described as if two manuscripts) to G. D. Smith. Precise source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.
note (temp)
http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/HM01127_43
