M.291, 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/77411

URL2: N/A

Digitization status: Partially digitized

Date: 1465- 1535

Language(s): Latin, French

Use: Rome

Country of production: France

City or region of production: Tours and Paris

Illumination contents: Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity, Annunciation to the Shepherds, Adoration of the Magi, Presentation in the Temple, Flight into Egypt, Assumption of the Virgin, crucifixion, Pentecost, Raising of Lazarus, Virgin Mary praying

Text contents: Calendar, Gospel Sequences, Obsecro te, O Intemerata, Hours of the Virgin, Penitential Psalms, Litany, Short Hours of the Cross, Short Hours of the Holy Spirit, Office of the Dead, Suffrages, Stabat mater, Added Owners’ Inscriptions

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Materials: Vellum

Binding original?: No

Binding description: French 17th-century brown morocco, gold tooled with semis of double C’s and barred S; in brown case by Marguerite Duprez Lahey.

Folio height (in centimeters): 18.5

Folio width (in centimeters): 12.3

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