Holding institution title: Book of Hours
Holding institution classification: Book of Hours
Holding institution location: New York, NY
URL: https://www.themorgan.org/manuscript/77113
URL2: N/A
Digitization status: Partially digitized
Date: 1440-1495
Language(s): Latin, French
Use: Angers
Country of production: France
City or region of production: Angers
Illumination contents: Feasting, Aquarius, Digging, Pisces, Pruning vines, Aries, Falconing, Taurus, Lovers on a horse, Gemini, Mowing, Cancer, Reaping, Leo, Sowing, Virgo, Gathering acorns, Libra, Treading Grapes, Scorpio, Baking bread, Sagittarius, Slaughtering a pig, Capricorn, St. John the Evangelist, St. Luke, St. Matthew, St. Mark, Annunciation, Prophet Isaiah, Prophet Amos, Prophet Jeremiah, Prophet Daniel, Visitation, Crucifixion, Pentecost, Nativity, Annunciation to the Shepherds, Adoration of the Magi, Presentation in the Temple, Flight into Egypt, Coronation of the Virgin, David and Goliath, King David praying, Job on a dungheap, Office of the Dead, Archangel Michael, St. John the Baptist, St. John the Evangelist, St. Sebastian, Mass of St. Gregory, St. Florentius, St. Martin, St. Christopher, St. Anthony, St. Julian, St. Margaret, St. Apollonia, Coronation of the Virgin observed by all saints
Text contents: Calendar, Gospel Sequences, Hours of the Virgin, Hours of the Cross, Hours of the Holy Spirit, Seven Verses of St. Barnard, Penitential Psalms, Litany, Office of the Dead, Suffrages
Hours intercalated?: 1
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Materials: Vellum
Binding original?: No
Binding description: 20th-century red velvet in citron morocco case by Marguerite Duprez Lahey; lettered: Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis – Angers, c. 1480.
Folio height (in centimeters): 14.4
Folio width (in centimeters): 10.1
