M.1030, 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/145101

URL2: N/A

Digitization status: Partially digitized

Date: 1515-1565

Language(s): Latin

Use: Rome

Country of production: France

City or region of production: Tours?

Illumination contents: Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Visitation, Adoration of the Shepherds, Presentation in the Temple, King David in Prayer, Pietà, John the Evangelist

Text contents: Calendar, Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead

Hours intercalated?:

Personalization:

Scribe:

Illuminator: Roger Wieck attributes the illumination to Agostino Decio in Painted Prayers (1997), p. 34, no. 20

Patron:

Materials: Vellum

Binding original?: No

Binding description: 17th-century black sharkskin with shell-shaped silver clasps, one lost.

Folio height (in centimeters): 6.9

Folio width (in centimeters): 4.7

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