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Book of Hours, use of Paris : [manuscript]

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Description
ff. 1-127v. [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-6v: Full calendar in French; ff. 7-12v: Pericopes of the Gospels; ff. 13-18v: f. 13, illumination; ff. 13v-14, ruled, but blank; ff. 14v-18v: Prayers; ff. 19-63v: Hours of the Virgin, use of Paris; f. 63v, ruled, but blank; ff. 64-66: Short hours of the Cross; ff. 66v-68v: Short hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 69-81: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 81v-108v: Office of the Dead, use of Paris; ff. 109-127v: the Obsecro te and the O Intemerata and several prayers in French, as well as suffrages of Michael, John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Peter and Paul, James the Greater, Stephen, Lawrence, Mary Magdalene, Catherine of Alexandria, Margaret, Barbara, Apollonia.
Type
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Date
[between 1500 and 1515]
Call number
mssHM 1147
Creator
Catholic Church(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Written 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.
Restrictions
RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Dimensions
124 x 170 mm
Associated people
Bordes, Henri, (1842-1911,)
Hoe, Robert, (1839-1909,)
Associated organization
Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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