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Book of Hours, use of Paris : [manuscript]

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ff. 1-136v [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-12v: Full calendar in French; ff. 13-22: Pericopes of the Gospels and the Obsecro te; f. 22v, ruled, but blank; ff. 23-66v: Hours of the Virgin, use of Paris; ff. 67-68v, ruled, but blank; ff. 69-86: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 86v-89v: Short hours of the Cross; ff. 90-92v: Short hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 93-121: Office of the Dead, use of Paris; ff. 121-135: Prayers in French and suffrages of Michael, John the Baptist, James the Greater, Christopher, Sebastian, Nicholas, Anthony abbot, Catherine of Alexandria, Margaret, Barbara. ff. 135v-136v, blank.
Type
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Date
[between 1450 and 1499]
Call number
mssHM 1154
Creator
Catholic Church(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Names of early owners on the back pastedown: Manon dargilliere, francoise dargilliere. A sixteenth century owner was apparently Marie de Rebergues, whose name is stamped on the cover. A cancelled note on f. i identifies a seventeenth century owner as Anne Sa[?] Gaultier of Clermont, who obtained the book from her great-grandmother. Belonged to James Dix of Bristol; his sale, Sotheby's, 11 February 1870, lot 257 to Stevens. In the collection of E. Dwight Church; see his Catalogue . . . of English Literature (1909) vol. 1, n. 406 with a plate of f. 93. The Church collection was acquired by Henry E. Huntington in 1911.
Restrictions
RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Dimensions
103 x 148 mm
Associated people
Church, Elihu Dwight, (1835-1908,)
Associated organization
Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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