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Description: ff. 1-195v [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-6v: Full calendar in French; ff. 7-20v: Passion according to John; ff. 21-39v: Pericopes of the Gospels, Obsecro te, O Intemerata, Stabat mater; ff. 40-113v: Hours of the Virgin, use of Paris; ff. 114-118: Short hours of the Cross; ff. 118v-121v: Short hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 122-141v: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 142-195v: Office of the Dead, use of Paris and prayers for Communion.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: [between 1400 and 1415]
Call number: mssHM 1160
Creator: Catholic Church(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The owner in the sixteenth century may have been a woman named "Jeanne," as suggested by the illumination on f. 29. Belonged to Robert Hoe, and discussed by him in his Lecture on Bookbinding as a Fine Art, delivered before the Grolier Club, February 26, 1885 (New York, Grolier Club 1886) pl. 63; Grolier Club (1892) n. 47; Exhibition of Silver, Embroidered and Curious Bookbindings (New York, Grolier Club 1903) n. 32; Cat. (1909) pp. 44-45; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1912, pt. III, n. 2072 to G. D. Smith. Precise source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.

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