Holding institution title: Book of Hours
Holding institution classification: Book of Hours
Holding institution location: New York, NY
URL: https://www.themorgan.org/manuscript/77107
URL2: N/A
Digitization status: Partially digitized
Date: 1350-1425
Language(s): Latin, French
Use: Paris (Calendar), Rome (Hours of the Virgin)
Country of production: France
City or region of production: Paris
Illumination contents: Annunciation, Annunciation to the Shepherds, Adoration of the Magi, Massacre of the Innocents, Christ with orb enthroned, Crucifixion, Virgin Mary and Christ Child with kneeling female owner portrait, Coronation of the Virgin, St. John the Evangelist, Female owner portrait kneeling before St. Margaret
Text contents: Hours of the Virgin, Penitential Psalms, Life of St. Margaret in French Verse
Hours intercalated?:
Personalization: Original female owner is depicted twice in this manuscript, first on f. 195r, kneeling before the Virgin Mary and Christ Child, and second on f. 204r before St. Margaret emerging from the dragon at the beginning of the Life of St. Margaret in rhymed verse.
Scribe:
Illuminator: School of Jean Pucelle
Patron:
Materials: Vellum
Binding original?: No
Binding description: French 18th-century green morocco; lettered: Heures en Latin – MSS. sur velin – en miniatu [sic].
Folio height (in centimeters): 12
Folio width (in centimeters): 8
