M.197, 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/112446

URL2: N/A

Digitization status: Partially digitized

Date: 1475-1525

Language(s): Latin, French

Use: Paris

Country of production: France

City or region of production: Paris

Illumination contents: Feasting, Warming before the fire, Pruning vines, Youth and maid seated near trees, Lovers on a horse, Mowing, Reaping, Sowing, Treading grapes, Gathering acorns, Slaughtering a pig, Baking bread, St. John the Evangelist, Four prophets, St. Luke, Prophet, St. Matthew, Angel with book, Monkey fishing in a pool, St. Mark, Lion with book, Monkey by a stream, Virgin Mary and Christ Child, Angel playing an instrument, Monkey riding a monster by a stream, Virgin crowned and praying, Three angels, The Fall, Annunciation, Virgin Mary weaving, Visitation, Nativity, Midwife warming a cloth at a fireplace, Annunciation to the Shepherds, Grotesques in landscape, Adoration of the Magi, Monkey with an eagle by a stream, Presentation in the Temple, Virgin Mary and Christ Child, Flight into Egypt, Sowing, Coronation of the Virgin, Grotesque in landscape, Crucifixion, Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, Pentecost, Grotesques in landscape, Tree with a red shield hanging from it, David observing Bathsheba, Boy in a landscape, Two prophets, Dives in hell among rocks and demons, Bust of Abraham and Lazarus, Man shooting with bow in a landscape, God the Father and God the Son holding a book, Archangel Michael, Monkey riding a monster in a landscape, St. John the Baptist, St. John the Evangelist, Grotesque in a landscape, St. James, Ship in a body of water, St. Sebastian, Man shooting a bird, St. Mary Magdalene, St. Genevieve, Grotesque in landscape, St. Catherine defaced, Boar in a landscape

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: English 19th-century olive morocco by C. Lewis (?); lettered: Missale Romanum; in green slip case.

Folio height (in centimeters): 17

Folio width (in centimeters): 12

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