M.151, 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/77135

URL2: N/A

Digitization status: Partially digitized

Date: 1475-1525

Language(s): Latin, French

Use: Rouen

Country of production: France

City or region of production: Rouen

Illumination contents: Feasting, Aquarius, Warming before the fire, Pisces, Pruning vines, Aries, Lovers in a garden, Taurus, Lovers on a horse, Gemini, Mowing, Cancer, Reaping, Leo, Threshing and winnowing, Virgo, Treading grapes, Libra, Sowing, Scorpio, Gathering acorns, Sagittarius, Slaughtering a pig, Capricorn, St. Philip with kneeling male owner portrait, St. John the Evangelist, St. Matthew, St. Luke, St. Mark, Annunciation, Nativity, Adoration of the Magi, Presentation in the Temple, Flight into Egypt, Coronation of the Virgin, Crucifixion with Longinus piercing Christ’s side, Pentecost, King David praying with Gad, Christ showing his wounds at Last Judgment, Virgo Lactans

Text contents: Calendar, Memoria, Gospel Sequences, Obsecro te, O Intemerata, Hours of the Virgin, Hours of the Cross, Hours of the Holy Spirit, Penitential Psalms, Litany, Fifteen Joys of the Virgin in French, Seven Requests to Our Lord in French

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Materials: Vellum

Binding original?: No

Binding description: French red morocco, ca. 1810.

Folio height (in centimeters): 18

Folio width (in centimeters): 12

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