M.1054, 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/76811

URL2: N/A

Digitization status: Partially digitized

Date: 1465-1525

Language(s): Latin

Use: Rome

Country of production: France

City or region of production: Tours

Illumination contents: Feasting, Aquarius, Warming before the fire, Pisces, Pruning vines, Aries, Making flower crowns, Taurus, Man holding bouquet, Gemini, Mowing, Cancer, Harvesting wheat, Leo, Threshing grain, Virgo, Making wine, Libra, Virgin Mary administering eucharist to Avia of Sicily in prison, Gathering acorns, Scorpio, St. Martin of Tours, Slaughtering hog, Sagittarius, St. Jerome, Baking bread, Capricorn, Pietà, St. John the Evangelist, St. Luke, St. Matthew, St. Mark, Virgin Mary in prayer and Christ child, Virgin and Child, Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity, Annunciation to the Shepherds, Adoration of the Magi, Presentation in the Temple, Flight into Egypt, Virgin crowned, Christ Carrying the Cross, Pentecost, King David Penitent, Job on dung heap with friends, St. Sebastian, St. Christopher, Archangel Michael, St. Martin, St. Catherine

Text contents: Calendar, Gospel Sequences, Obsecro te, O Intemerata, Hours of the Virgin, Short Hours of the Cross, Short Hours of the Holy Spirit, Penitential Psalms, Litany, Office of the Dead, Suffrages

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Materials: Vellum

Binding original?: No

Binding description: Late 16th-century Parisian marbled morocco fanfare.

Folio height (in centimeters): 20.4

Folio width (in centimeters): 12

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