H.4, The Morgan Library & Museum

Holding institution title: Book of Hours

Holding institution classification: Book of Hours

Holding institution location: New York, NY

URL: https://www.themorgan.org/manuscript/76890

URL2: N/A

Digitization status: Partially digitized

Date: 1425-1500

Language(s): Latin, French

Use: Reims

Country of production: France

City or region of production: Reims?

Illumination contents: Annunciation, Nativity, Laureled head of man drinking in initial D, Adoration of the Magi, Presentation in the Temple, Shield with royal arms of France surmounted by crown in initial D

Text contents: Calendar, Incomplete Hours of the Virgin, Stabat Mater, Penitential Psalms, Litany, Office of the Dead, Joys of the Virgin, Seven Prayers of Gregory in French, Hours of the Cross, Seven Verses of Bernard of Clairvaux, Additional Prayers

Hours intercalated?:

Personalization:

Scribe: Unknown

Illuminator: Unknown

Patron: Unknown

Materials: Vellum

Binding original?: Unknown

Binding description: Perhaps late 15th-century blind-tooled brown leather, gauffered with painted fleur-de-lis in lozenges.

Folio height (in centimeters): 18.7

Folio width (in centimeters): 13.4

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