M.199, 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/76864

URL2: N/A

Digitization status: Partially digitized

Date: 1435-1485

Language(s): Latin, French

Use: Paris

Country of production: France

City or region of production: Angers or Tours

Illumination contents: St. Luke, St. John, St. Matthew, St. Mark, Crucifixion, Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity, Adoration of the Magi, Presentation in the Temple, Flight into Egypt, Coronation of the Virgin, King David praying, Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, Betrayal of Christ, Christ before Pilate, Christ Carrying the Cross, Crucifixion, Descent from the Cross, Pentecost, Office of the Dead, Virgo lactans, Pietà, Virgin Mary kissing Christ Child, Last Judgment, Group of Confessors, Group of Martyrs, Group of Female Saints, Group of Male Saints

Text contents: Hours of the Virgin, Hours of the Cross, Gospel Sequences, Hours of the Holy Spirit, Added inscription “Avete omnes anime D. I. C. salus liberacio”, Penitential Psalms, Litany, Office of the Dead, Suffrages, Prayers on the Passion, Prayers to the Virgin, Obsecro te, Prayer to the Virgin, Fifteen Joys of the Virgin, Seven Requests to Our Lord in French, Calendar, Gospel Sequences, Passion According to Mark, Hours of the Virgin

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Materials: Vellum

Binding original?: No

Binding description: English 19th-century green morocco tooled to imitate French 16th century binding and lettered: Missale Romanum – Sec. XV; rebound by Marguerite Duprez Lahey in full green morocco, 1945.

Folio height (in centimeters): 10.5

Folio width (in centimeters): 7.4

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