M.430, 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/130706

URL2: N/A

Digitization status: Partially digitized

Date: 1435-1485

Language(s): Latin

Use: Rome (Hours of the Virgin)

Country of production: France

City or region of production: Bourges?

Illumination contents: St. John the Evangelist, St. Luke, St. Matthew, St. Mark, Virgin Mary and Christ Child enthroned, Pietà, Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity, Annunciation to the Shepherds, Adoration of the Magi, Presentation in the Temple, Flight into Egypt, Coronation of the Virgin, David and Goliath, Crucifixion, Pentecost, Raising of Lazarus, Trinity, Archangel Michael, St. John the Baptist, St. Peter, St. Paul, St. Christopher, St. Sebastian, St. George, Sts. Cosmas and Damian, St. Denis, St. Robert of Casa Dei, St. Anthony, St. Maurus, St. Fiacre, St. Martin, St. Catherine, St. Marguerite, Christ appearing as a gardener for Mary Magdalene, St. Barbara, St. Apollonia

Text contents: Calendar, Gospel Sequences, Obsecro te, O Intemerata, Hours of the Virgin, Hours of the Cross, Office of the Dead, Suffrages

Hours intercalated?:

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Materials: Vellum

Binding original?: No

Binding description: In citron morocco case made by Marguerite Duprez Lahey in 1918; binding is 18th-century sprinkled calf which is lettered: Vie des Saints.

Folio height (in centimeters): 12

Folio width (in centimeters): 9

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