M.159, 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/77077

URL2: N/A

Digitization status: Partially digitized

Date: 1445-1495

Language(s): Latin, French

Use: Rome

Country of production: France

City or region of production: Central France

Illumination contents: Virgin Mary nimbed praying, Annunciation, Crucifixion, Pentecost, Virgo Lactans with kneeling female owner portrait, King David praying, Office of the Dead

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

Hours intercalated?:

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Patron:

Materials: Vellum

Binding original?: No

Binding description: English 20th-century brown pigskin by the Hampstead bindery; lettered: Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis.

Folio height (in centimeters): 18

Folio width (in centimeters): 12

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