Holding institution title: Book of Hours
Holding institution classification: Book of Hours
Holding institution location: New York, NY
URL: https://www.themorgan.org/manuscript/77407
URL2: N/A
Digitization status: Partially digitized
Date: 1450-1472
Language(s): Latin, Italian
Use: Rome
Country of production: Italy
City or region of production: Northern Italy
Illumination contents: Virgin Mary and Christ Child in initial D, Bichi arms, Skull and bones in initial D, King David as a musician in initial D, St. Helena in initial P
Text contents: Calendar, Hours of the Virgin, Canticles, Hours of the Virgin for Advent, Prayer to St. Sebastian against pests, Office of the Dead, Penitential Psalms, Litany, Prayers for the Pope and Archbishop, Hours of the Passion, Prayer to the Virgin, Verses of St. Bernard, Psalms and Prayers in Italian, Prayer to the Cross
Hours intercalated?:
Personalization: Arms of the Bichi family appear on f. 13r, leading Morgan Library and Museum curators to conclude that the manuscript was executed in northern Italy for a female member of the Bichi family between 1450 and 1472.
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Materials: Vellum
Binding original?: No
Binding description: 20th-century purple velvet by Marguerite Duprez Lahey; lettered: Officium – Italian – XV cent.
Folio height (in centimeters): 10.2
Folio width (in centimeters): 7.5
