Holding institution title: Book of Hours
Holding institution classification: Book of Hours
Holding institution location: New York, NY
URL: https://www.themorgan.org/manuscript/279805
URL2: N/A
Digitization status: Partially digitized
Date: 1484
Language(s): Latin
Use: Rome
Country of production: France
City or region of production: Lyons
Illumination contents: St. John the Evangelist, St. Luke, St. Matthew, St. Mark, Annunciation, Prophet holding scroll, Prophet holding scroll, Visitation, Nativity, Annunciation to the Shepherds, Adoration of the Magi, Presentation at the Temple, Death of the Virgin, Assumption of the Virgin, Christ carrying the Cross, Pentecost, David observing Bathsheba, Job on dungheap with friends, Virgin of the Apocalypse and Christ child, Archangel Michael, St. John the Baptist, St. Peter, St. Sebastian, St. George, St. Christopher, St. Claudius, St. Nicholas, St. Anthony, St. Catherine, St. Barbara, St. Mary Magdalene, St. Anne teaching the Virgin to read
Text contents: Calendar, Gospel Sequences, Hours of the Virgin, Hours of the Cross, Hours of the Holy Spirit, Penitential Psalms, Litany, Office of the Dead, Obsecro te, Seven Verses of St. Bernard, Passion according to St. John, Suffrages, Psalms, Added Ownership Inscriptions
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Materials: Vellum
Binding original?: No
Binding description: Crimson velvet, ca. 1800, over original (?) boards; original unwritten leaves as pastedowns; spine in five compartments. Morocco box in slipcase. –Cf. Christie’s.
Folio height (in centimeters): 12.6
Folio width (in centimeters): 8.2
