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Book of Hours, use of Rome : [manuscript]

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Part I. ff. 1-162 [Book of Hours]: f. 1r-v: Table of contents; ff. 2-10: Calendar with the months following one another directly; ff. 10v-17v: Prayers for the beginning of the day, for the king, other prayers, and pericope from John; ff. 18-22v: Short hours of the Cross; ff. 23-27v: Short hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 28-34: Short hours of the Conception; ff. 34v-92v: Incipit officium beate marie virginis secundum consuetudinem romane curie; ff. 93-98: Mass of the Virgin; ff. 98-111: Penitential psalms and litany; f. 111v: Office of the Dead, now missing; ff. 140-151: Gradual psalms; ff. 151v-157v: Prayers, readings and hymns for the end of the day; ff. 158-162: Suffrages of John the Baptist, Christopher, Jerome, Mary Magdalene, Apollonia, Catherine of Alexandria, Agatha, Elizabeth, Roch, Margaret, Francis, Anthony of Padua. f. 162v, blank. Part II. 17 miniatures of Flemish origin.
Type
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Date
[between 1526 and 1539]
Call number
mssHM 1162
Creator
Catholic Church(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
The coats of arms on ff. 10v and 48v are those of Charles V and Isabel of Portugal, impaled; the book must have been made between 1526 (their marriage) and 1539 (Isabel's death). Belonged to Count Justin MacCarthy-Reagh of Toulouse; his sale through the Parisian bookseller De Bure in 1817, n. 396. Belonged to William Beckford with his number 2 pencilled in on f. ii; he bequeathed his materials to his son-in-law, Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton, whose library monogram "HB" and number 654 also appear on f. ii. Catalogued for sale, Sotheby's 1882, lot 461; before the sale, the collection was purchased in toto by the Prussian government (W. von Seidlitz, "Die illustrierten Handschriften der Hamilton-Sammlung (Schluss)," Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft 8 (1885) 94-110, esp. 104-05). Sotheby's, 23 May 1889, n. 32 with facsimile (no plates in the catalogue seen by us) to Trübner. Jacques Rosenthal Catalogue 27, n. 31. In the library of William K. Bixby of St. Louis, whose book plate is on the front pastedown; portions of this collection were acquired by Henry E. Huntington in August 1918.
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RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Associated people
Bening, Simon, (1483 or 1484-1561,)
Isabel, (1503-1539,)
Charles (1500-1558,)
Mac-Carthy-Reagh, Justin, (1744-1811,)
Beckford, William, (1760-1844,)
Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton Douglas, (1767-1852,)
Bixby, William K. (1857-1931,)
Derome, Nicolas-Denis, (1731-1788,)
Associated organization
Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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