M.276, 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/112443

URL2: N/A

Digitization status: Partially digitized

Date: 1500-1515

Language(s): Latin, French

Use: Rome

Country of production: France

City or region of production: Paris

Illumination contents: Feasting, Aquarius, Warming by the Fire, Pisces, Woman holding a flower, Aries, Pruning vines, Taurus, Falconing, Gemini, Mowing, Cancer, Reaping, Leo, Threshing, Virgo, Treading grapes, Libra, Sowing, Scorpio, Gathering acorns, Sagittarius, Baking bread, Capricorn, Creation of Eve, St. John the Evangelist, St. Luke, St. Matthew, St. Mark, Virgin Mary praying, Pietà, Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity, Annunciation to the Shepherds, Adoration of the Magi, Presentation in the Temple, Flight into Egypt, Coronation of the Virgin, Crucifixion, Pentecost, David observing Bathsheba, Job on a dungheap, Trinity, Archangel Michael, St. John the Baptist, St. John the Evangelist, Sts. Peter and Paul, St. Lawrence, St. Anne teaching the Virgin to read, St. Mary Magdalene, St. Catherine, St. Margaret, St. Barbara, St. Genevieve

Text contents: Calendar, Gospel Sequences, Obsecro te, O Intemerata, Hours of the Virgin, Hours of the Cross, Hours of the Holy Spirit, Penitential Psalms, Litany, Prayers, Office of the Dead, Suffrages

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Materials: Vellum

Binding original?: No

Binding description: French 17th-century citron morocco, gold-tooled; lettered: Heures.

Folio height (in centimeters): 24

Folio width (in centimeters): 16

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