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Book of Hours, use of Paris : [manuscript]

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Description
ff. 1-214v. [Book of Hours, use of Paris]: ff. 1-12v: full calendar in French; ff. 13-26v: pericopes of the Gospels, Obsecro te and O intemerata (masculine forms); ff. 28-96: Hours of the Virgin, use of Paris [ff. 96v-97v, blank]; ff. 98-118v: penitential psalms and litany; ff. 119-126v: Short hours of the Cross; ff. 127-133v: Short hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 134-181v: Office of the Dead, use of Paris; ff. 182-191: prayers in French [f. 191r-v, blank]; ff. 192-211v: suffrages of the Trinity, All Saints, the Assumption of the Virgin, the Cross, Michael, John the Baptist, Peter and Paul, Andrew, John the Evangelist, James the Greater, Thomas the Apostle, Bartholomew, Matthew the Evangelist, Simon and Jude, Matthias, Luke, Mark, Stephen, Lawrence, Vincent, Denis, Christopher, George, Martin, Nicholas, Maurus, Anthony abbot, Fiacre, Catherine of Alexandria, Margaret, Genevieve, Mary Magdalene, Anne [ff. 212-214v, blank].
Type
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Date
[between 1440 and 1460]
Call number
mssHM 1100
Creator
Catholic Church(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Purchased from George D. Smith, April 1912. Given by John Webb to Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex; in the Bibliotheca Sussexiana, A Descriptive Catalogue...of the Manuscripts and Printed Books contained in the Library of His Royal Highness, the Duke of Sussex, by Thomas J. Pettigrew (London 1827) vol. I, pt. 1, n. 129 with a plate of f. 134; his sale, Evans, London, 31 July 1844, pt. II, n. 187 to James Baker; his sale, London, 24 May 1855, n. 473 to Edwin Henry Lawrence; his sale, Sotheby's, 9 May 1892, n. 303 to Quaritch. Acquired by Robert Hoe: Bierstadt (1895) 25-27 with a plate of f. 63v; Cat. (1909) pp. 61-62 ; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1911, pt. I, n. 2130 to G. D. Smith; Smith Cat. [n. 2, 1912?] n. 119 to Henry E. Huntington in April 1912.
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NOT AVAILABLE. Does not circulate. Please contact Reader Services for more information.
Dimensions
170 x 235 mm
Associated people
Augustus Frederick, (1773-1843,)
Lawrence, Edwin Henry, (1839-1909,)
Hoe, Robert,
Associated organizations
Bedford Master Workshop,
Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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