Holding institution title: Book of Hours
Holding institution classification: Book of Hours
Holding institution location: New York, NY
URL: https://www.themorgan.org/manuscript/77093
URL2: N/A
Digitization status: Partially digitized
Date: 1455-1525
Language(s): Latin, French
Use: Paris
Country of production: France
City or region of production: Paris
Illumination contents: Warming before the fire, Pisces, Pruning vines, Aries, Woman picking flowers, Taurus, Man on a horse, Gemini, Mowing, Cancer, Reaping, Leo, Threshing, Virgo, Treading grapes, Libra, Gathering acorns, Scorpio, Slaughtering a pig, Sagittarius, Baking bread, Capricorn, St. John the Evangelist, St. Luke, St. Matthew, St. Mark, Virgin and Child enthroned, Virgo lactans, Betrayal of Christ, Gabriel and the Trinity with personifications of Mercy and Truth with Righteousness and Peace, Annunciation, Joachim and Anne meet at the Golden Gate, Nativity of the Virgin, Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple, Marriage of the Virgin Mary and Joseph, Nativity, Angels carrying a scroll, Ox and ass, Virgin Mary and Joseph traveling on an ass, Virgin Mary pointing to a stable, Annunciation to the Shepherds, Adoration of the Magi, Followers of the Magi, Presentation in the Temple, Joseph with club walks before the Virgin Mary and Christ Child, Flight into Egypt, Coronation of the Virgin, Virgin Mary praying, Pentecost, Bathsheba bathing, Nathan addressing King David, King David observing Bathsheba, David giving letter to Uriah, Uriah killed in battle, Three Living and Three Dead, Office of the Dead, Dives and his wife at a table, Lazarus lying dead, Group of nude souls in limbo, Dives tormented in hell, Abraham with Lazarus and other saved souls, Nude souls in purgatory, Raising of Lazarus, Job on dungheap, Trinity, Archangel Michael, St. John the Baptist, St. John the Evangelist, Sts. Peter and Paul, St. James major, St. Stephen, St Christopher, St. Sebastian
Text contents: Calendar, Gospel Sequences, Obsecro te, O Intemerata, Passion according to John, 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: 19th-century (?) green velvet with 2 clasps.
Folio height (in centimeters): 18
Folio width (in centimeters): 13
