Holding institution title: Book of Hours
Holding institution classification: Book of Hours
Holding institution location: New York, NY
URL: https://www.themorgan.org/manuscript/76924
URL2: N/A
Digitization status: Partially digitized
Date: 1395- 1450
Language(s): Latin, French
Use: Paris
Country of production: France
City or region of production: Paris
Illumination contents: Warming before the fire, Aquarius, Chopping wood, Pisces, Pruning trees, Aries, Pruning branches, Taurus, Falconing, Gemini, Cutting Hay, Cancer, Cutting grain, Leo, Threshing grain, Virgo, Making wine, Libra, Sowing seed, Scorpio, Gathering acorns for pigs, Sagittarius, Slaughtering pig, Capricorn, St. John, St. Luke, St. Matthew, St. Mark, Virgin and Child in the Sun, Virgin and Child enthroned, Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity, Annunciation to the Shepherds, Adoration of the Magi, Presentation in the Temple, Flight into Egypt, Coronation of the Virgin, Man of Sorrows emerging from tomb with Angels holding Arma Christi, St. Jerome, David in Prayer, David Slaying Goliath, David viewing Bathsheba, Uriah killed in battle, Crucifixion, Pentecost, Office of the Dead, Virgin holding book and Christ child, Body of Christ carried by angels
Text contents: Calendar, Gospel Sequences, Obecro te, O Intemerata, Hours of the Virgin, Psalter of Jerome, Penitential Psalms, Hours of the Cross, Hours of the Holy Spirit, Office of the Dead, Suffrages, Fifteen Joys of the Virgin, Seven Requests to our Lord, Masses for Major Feasts from Easter to Christmas
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Materials: Vellum
Binding original?: No
Binding description: English late 18th-century red morocco gilt, with green leather label “Missale.”
Folio height (in centimeters): 22
Folio width (in centimeters): 15.5
