ID: 700009195 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009195	Record Type: Movable Work
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Emerson-White Book of Hours (book of hours; Simon Marmion (Louthe Master); Master of the Dresden Hours; ...; 1485/1490; Houghton Library (Cambridge, Middlesex county, Massachusetts...; MS Typ 443–443.1; )

Note: 248 folios, Historiated Initials: 28. Small Miniatures: 24. The text is written in a gothic rotunda book-hand in one column Each page has an outer border panel in tempera and gold in trompe-l'oeil style. Many pages have full borders in this style. There are also 7 miniatures, 14 historiated borders, 28 historiated initials, and 24 calendar illustrations in tempera and gold. (At least 23 further miniatures originally in the ms. are now missing.) The illuminators include the Master of the Houghton Miniatures (named for this ms.), the Ghent Associates of the Master of Mary of Burgundy, the Louthe Master or Simon Marmion, and the Master of the Dresden Prayerbook Evidence formerly cited (see Quaritch) to show that the book was written for Queen Juana la Loca of Castile is now interpreted differently The texts for the various votive masses are on ff. 51-69 and 128-132 Both volumes are bound by Zaehnsdorf ca. 1886 in black morocco with an all-over pattern of flowers and the monogram y y Vol. 1 is in a black morocco tray case, vol. 2 in a blue morocco pull-off case, both 16 cm The main text of the ms. is in Latin, but at the end (ff. 245v-248r) is "la oracion de Sant Gregorio Papa" in Spanish; A set of black and white photographs of the ms. is MS Lat 204 Also available in an electronic version. The parchment pages of this petite two-volume prayer book measure just 15 centimeters tall and are made from extraordinarily thin and finely prepared animal skin, probably from a young calf. The phenomenal paintings contained within include lush, full-page landscape scenes, like that of Saint Anthony the Abbot in the Egyptian wilderness, and elaborately decorated borders with colorful insects and flowers that frame Christian devotional texts. The paintings are so carefully detailed it is thought that the artists sometimes used paintbrushes consisting of a single hair. Under magnification, it’s possible to see the application of a solitary dot of paint on the tip of Saint Anthony’s companion’s nose (see image above).

Titles:

Emerson-White Book of Hours (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Hours of Juana la Loca (C,U,English,U,U)

MS Typ 443–443.1 (C,U,MD,undetermined,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

book of hours [300026457] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), document genres, <documents by function>, religious texts)

book [300028051]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), information artifacts, <information artifacts by physical form>)

prayer book [300026476]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), document genres, <documents by function>, religious texts)

manuscript (documents) [300028569]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), document genres, <documents by conditions of production>)

Classifications:

manuscripts (preferred)

Creation Date: 1485/1490

Creator Display:

Simon Marmion (Louthe Master); Master of the Dresden Hours; Master of the Houghton Miniatures; and Ghent Associates of the Master of Mary of Burgundy. Zaehnsdorf (Firm) (binder), black morocco with an all-over pattern of flowers and the monogram y y [preferred]

Marmion, Simon (French illuminator and panel painter, ca. 1425-1489) [500121728]

Master of the Dresden Hours (German illuminator, 15th century) [500373062]

Master of the Houghton Miniatures (Flemish illuminator, active ca. 1476-1480) [500355324]

Master of Mary of Burgundy (Flemish illuminator, active 1469-1483) [500016782]

Locations:

Current: Houghton Library (Cambridge, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, United States) [500307208] Harvard University, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: MS Typ 443–443.1

Display Materials: colors, ink, gold on vellum; binding: black morocco

	ink [300015012]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

	color (pigment) [300264870]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>)

	gilding (material) [300379350]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, metal, <metal by form>)

	vellum (parchment) [300011852]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, animal material, processed animal material, parchment (animal material))

Dimensions: 248 folios, 2 volumes; height of folios: 15 cm

General Subject:

religion and mythology (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	prayers (literary genre) [300026452]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), <concepts in the arts and humanities>, <genres in literature and performing arts>, <genres for literature>) (AAT)

	Latin (language) [300388693]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), language-related concepts, <languages and writing systems>, <languages and writing systems by specific type>, <temporary alphabetical list: languages and writing systems>) (AAT)

Provenance: White, Alfred Tredway Van Sinderen, Adrian Quaritch, Bernard Stirling Maxwell, William, Sir White, William Augustus Emerson, Frances White Bernard Quaritch (the whole ms. in 1 volume) Sir William Stirling Maxwell (Quaritch catalogue Sept. 1886 no. 35696), who rebound it in 2 vols Quaritch (both vols.) Vol. 1 (MS Typ 443): William A. White, 1892 his daughter Mrs. Frances White Emerson Vol. 2 (MS Typ 443.1): Alfred T. White, 1892 his son-in-law Adrian Van Sinderen Vol. 1 given in memory of William A. White and his daughter Frances White Emerson by members of their family: Harold White, Donald Moffat, and Mrs. John Wing, 1958 Vol. 2 deposited by Mrs. Adrian Van Sinderen, 1966

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Emerson-White Book of Hours	........ [VP]
	........ Harvard Art Museums [online] (2000-)
Hours of Juana la Loca	........ [VP]
	........ Harvard Art Museums [online] (2000-)
MS Typ 443–443.1	........ [VP]
	........ Harvard Art Museums [online] (2000-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

....................... Penn Libraries, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts (2000-)

....................... Harvard Art Museums [online] (2000-)

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Harvard Art Museums [online] (2000-) http://magazine.harvardartmuseums.org/article/2013/08/16/magnificent-miniature-emerson-white-book-hours
	..... Penn Libraries, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts (2000-)