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Book of Hours, use of Amiens : [manuscript]

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Description
ff. 1-120v [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-11v: Calendar in French, missing the month of January; f. 12r-v, blank; ff. 13-14: the 10 and the 5 Commandements in French; ff. 14-22v: Passion according to John; f. 23r-v, blank; ff. 24-29v: Pericopes of the Gospels; ff. 29v-32v: Short hours of the Cross; ff. 32v-34v: Short hours of the Holy Spirit, defective at the end; ff. 35-67: Hours of the Virgin, use of Amiens; leaves missing between ff. 52-53 and 57-58; ff. 67v-80: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 80v-100: Office of the Dead with 3 lessons at matins; ff. 100v-120: Obsecro te, O Intemerata (both with masculine forms), and other prayers, several with long rubrics in French and one with feminine forms, and a suffrage of Nicholas. f. 120v blank.
Type
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Date
[between 1490 and 1510]
Call number
mssHM 1167
Creator
Catholic Church(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
From the collection of Ricardo Heredia y Livermore, Count of Benahavis, whose book label with the monogram R. H. is on the front pastedown; according to a note in Spanish on f. i, Heredia believed the book to have come from the library of the Marques of Isasi; Heredia sale, Paris, 22 May 1891, pt. I, n. 85 to Tumin. Source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.
Restrictions
RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Dimensions
132 x 190 mm
Associated people
Heredia, Ricardo de, (1831-1896,)
Associated organization
Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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