M.361, 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/112373

URL2: N/A

Digitization status: Partially digitized

Date: 1450-1525

Language(s): Latin

Use: Florence (Calendar), Rome (Hours of the Virgin)

Country of production: Italy

City or region of production: Florence

Illumination contents: Visitation in initial D, Virgin reading in initial D, Annunciation to the Shepherds in initial D, Nativity in initial D, Presentation in the Temple in initial D, Swaddled Christ child in initial D, Flight into Egypt in initial C, Virgin Mary and Christ child in initial S, Flagellation of Christ in initial D, Prophet Isaiah, Christ before Pilate in initial D, Christ before the Cross in initial D, Crucifixion in initial D, Descent from the Cross in initial D, Arrest of Christ in initial P, Christ before Herod, Personification of Death on a black horse in initial D, King David praying in initial D, King David as musician

Text contents: Calendar, Hours of the Virgin, Mass of the Virgin, Hours of the Passion, Hours of the Cross, Office of the Dead, Penitential Psalms, Litany, Prayers

Hours intercalated?:

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Materials: Vellum

Binding original?: No

Binding description: Brown blind-tooled morocco by A. Sauton, with clasps and brown silk doublures; perhaps 19th century.

Folio height (in centimeters): 14

Folio width (in centimeters): 10

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