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Book of Hours, use of Besançon[?] : [manuscript]

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Description
ff. 1-115 [Book of Hours]: f. 1, blank; f. 1v, coat of arms; ff. 2-13v: Full calendar in French alternating red, blue and gold entries; ff. 14-20v: Pericopes of the Gospels, a suffrage of Catherine of Alexandria; ff. 21-24v: Short hours of the Cross; ff. 25-27v: Short hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 28-70v: Hours of the Virgin, of undetermined use; ff. 71-85v: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 86-109v: Office of the Dead, use of Besançon; ff. 110-114v: Obsecro te and O Intemerata; f. 115: coat of arms; f. 115v, blank.
Type
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Date
[between 1400 and 1450]
Call number
mssHM 1137
Creator
Catholic Church(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
The arms of early owners on ff. 1v and 115 were identified by A. Van de Put, as those of Jacques d'Archiac, lord of Aveilles (on f. 1v) and of his wife, Louise d'Aumont (on f. 115): his arms, encircled by a laurel wreath, gules two pales vair a chief or; her arms, also encircled by a laurel wreath, per pale, I, gules one [for two] pales vair a chief or (Archiac; similar to Rietstap, vol. 1, pl. 62); II, quarterly of five (2 and 3): 1, argent a chevron gules between, in chief four and in base three, martlets gules (Aumont; see Rietstap, vol. 1, pl. 87); 2, ermine eight horseshoes in orle and a bordure gules (Ferrières; see Rietstap, vol. 2, pl. 317); 3, or three bars azure and a bordure gules; 4, azure two fishes or and seven crosses argent (3 and 4); 5, or a lion rampant azure armed and langued gules. Belonged to Robert Hoe: Grolier Club (1892) n. 18; Cat. (1909) pp. 22-23; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1912, pt. IV, n. 2345 with plate of f. 53 to G. D. Smith. Precise source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.
Restrictions
RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Dimensions
165 x 216 mm
Associated people
Hoe, Robert, (1839-1909,)
Associated organization
Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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