Holding institution title: Book of Hours
Holding institution classification: Book of Hours
Holding institution location: New York, NY
URL: https://www.themorgan.org/manuscript/76803
URL2: N/A
Digitization status: Partially digitized
Date: 1475-1525
Language(s): Latin, Dutch
Use: Augustinian Canons of Windesheim Chapter (Hours of the Virgin) and Utrecht (Office of the Dead)
Country of production: Netherlands
City or region of production: Utrecht
Illumination contents: Table of golden numbers, Table of months and zodiac signs, Table of lunar letters, Table of astrological numbers, Annunciation, Nativity in initial D, Raising of Lazarus, Skull and bones in initial D, Man of sorrows emerging from tomb with Arma Christi, Coronation of the Virgin with Christ child, Apostle Paul with male owner portrait kneeling, St. Anne with the Virgin and Child and kneeling Mary Cleopas and Mary Salome with male owner portrait kneeling, St. Anne with the Virgin and Child in initial O
Text contents: Calendar, Table of Golden Numbers, Table of Months and Zodiac Signs, Table of Lunar Letters, Table of Astrological Numbers, Excerpts from the Gospel of John, Short Hours of the Cross, Incomplete Hours of the Virgin, Penitential Psalms, Litany, Incomplete Office of the Dead, Commendation of the Dead, Prayers in Dutch, Fifteen Os of Bridget of Sweden, Prayer in Dutch, Golden Litany in Dutch, Prayer to Christ in Dutch, Prayers to the Virgin in Dutch, Five Sorrows of the Virgin in Dutch, Seven Joys of the Virgin in Dutch, O Intemerata in Dutch, Rosary of the Virgin in Dutch, Prayers to Saints in Dutch, Three Pater Nosters in Dutch, Passion according to Matthew in Dutch, Passion According to John in Dutch, Improperia in Dutch
Hours intercalated?:
Personalization: Original owner (male) pictured before St. Paul on f. 93v before a suffrage to St. Paul.
Scribe: Unknown
Illuminator: Master of Edward IV of England.
Patron: Unknown
Materials: Vellum
Binding original?: Yes
Binding description: Rebinding preserving the early 16th-century Netherlandish covers of brown calf over boards, blind-stamped with four repetitions of a rectangular panel containing six angel musicians surrounded by a Latin legend and two repetitions of a panel with two dogs facing each other over a bone.
Folio height (in centimeters): 15.6
Folio width (in centimeters): 10.5
