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Book of Hours, undetermined use : [manuscript]

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Description: ff. 1-121v: [Book of Hours] ff. 1-6v: Full calendar; ff. 7-14: Pericopes of the Gospels and the Obsecro te; f. 14v, ruled, but blank; ff. 15-66v: Hours of the Virgin of undetermined use with hours of the Cross and of the Holy Spirit worked in; ff. 67-79v: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 80-118: Office of the Dead of undetermined use. ff. 118v-121v, blank.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: [between 1485 and 1499]
Call number: mssHM 1250
Creator: Catholic Church(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: On the first front and back flyleaf the same name has been written and crossed out; on the front is also the date "ce 26 Sept. 1811" and several flourishes, all in the same ink as the name. A note in French on the front pastedown discusses text and miniatures. Belonged to Robert Hoe, Grolier Club (1892) n. 24; Cat. (1909) pp. 89-90, where it is said to be in a "modern case of brown morocco"; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1912, pt. IV n. 2351 to G. D. Smith. Precise source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.

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