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Book of Hours, undetermined use : [manuscript]

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Description
ff. 1-162v [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-12v: Calendar, rather empty, in French; ff. 13-20: Pericopes of the Gospels and O Intemerata; f. 20v, ruled, but blank; ff. 21-25: [f. 21, blank], Short hours of the Cross; f. 25v, ruled, but blank; ff. 26-30: [f. 26, blank], Short hours of the Holy Spirit; f. 30v, ruled, but blank; ff. 31-85: [f. 31, blank], Hours of the Virgin; f. 85v, ruled, but blank; ff. 86-87: Salve sancta facies; f. 87v, ruled, but blank; ff. 88-106v: [f. 88, blank], Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 107-132: [f. 107, blank], Office of the Dead with only 3 lessons at matins; ff. 132v-134v, ruled, but blank; ff. 135-137v: Mass of the Virgin; f. 138r-v, ruled, but blank; ff. 139-149v: Prayers to the Virgin beginning with the Obsecro te, and including prayers to the Holy Spirit and to God the Father, followed by the Athanasian Creed; ff. 150-160v: Suffrages of the Trinity, Michael, John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Peter and Paul, All Apostles, James the Greater, Christopher, Sebastian, Lawrence, Anthony abbot, Nicholas, Adrianus, Francis, Mary Magdalene, Catherine of Alexandria, Barbara, Margaret. ff. 161-162v, blank.
Type
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Date
[between 1440 and 1460]
Call number
mssHM 1200
Creator
Catholic Church(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
A possession note on the back flyleaf identifies a late sixteenth century owner as Johannes Hullandt; in another inscription, ca. 1600[?], Carolus Hullandt "vicecomes Rolariensis villae" (Rousselaere?) gives the book to Catarina van Huerne. On the front flyleaf, f. i verso, are pious phrases and the inscription "Vertu pour guide, Jacqueline van." On f. ii verso, the inscriptions, "This Book belonged to Queen Mary of Scotland And shee used it at her death upon the Scaffold" (legible only under ultra-violet light), and "The above the Hand writing of King James the [?]2," (19th c.). A letter from Charles Browne Mostyn to Sir Gregory O. Page-Turner dated 1822 repeats this information, adding that the book eventually passed to the Scots College in Paris, where Mostyn obtained it during the Revolution. The letter, once loose in the manuscript, is now shelved as HM 46702. Sold at the Page-Turner sale, Battlesden House, 19 October 1824, probably n. 2524; Samuel Addington sale, Sotheby's, 24 May 1886, n. 285 to Nattali; belonged to Charles Butler; his sale, Sotheby's, 18 March 1912, pt. III, n. 2377 to Sabin. Purchased from the Minneapolis bookseller and collector, Edmund D. Brooks by William K. Bixby of St. Louis (St. Louis Republic, 18 March 1917, Feature section, p. 1). Acquired from him by Henry E. Huntington through G. D. Smith in August 1918.
Dimensions
129 x 180 mm
Associated people
Mary, (1542-1587,)
Butler, Charles, (1821-1910,)
Bixby, William K. (1857-1931,)
Associated organization
Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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