Holding institution title: Book of Hours
Holding institution classification: Book of Hours
Holding institution location: New York, NY
URL: https://www.themorgan.org/manuscript/76831
URL2: N/A
Digitization status: Partially digitized
Date: 1455-1505
Language(s): Latin, French
Use: Rome
Country of production: France and Belgium
City or region of production: Northern France
Illumination contents: Warming before the fire, Aquarius, Feasting, Pisces, Pruning vines, Aries, Man holding a branch, Taurus, Falconing, Gemini, Mowing, Cancer, Reaping, Leo, Making bundles of straw, Virgo, Making wine, Libra, Sowing, Scorpio, Gathering acorns, Sagittarius, Slaughtering a pig, Capricorn, St. John the Evangelist, St. Luke, St. Matthew, St. Mark, Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity, Annunciation to the Shepherds, Adoration of the Magi, Presentation in the Temple, Massacre of the Innocents, Coronation of the Virgin, Pentecost, David observing Bathsheba, Raising of Lazarus, Trinity, Pietà, Sts. Peter and Paul, Archangel Michael, St. Christopher, St. Sebastian, St. Julian, St. Claude, St. Francis, St. Mary Magdalene, St. Anne teaching the Virgin to read, St. Catherine, St. Margaret, St. Barbara, St. Apollonia, St. Susanna, Holy Face, Bust of the Virgin Mary, Mass of St. Gregory, Christ Child blessing
Text contents: Calendar, Gospel Sequences, Hours of the Virgin, Litany, Collects, Office of the Dead, Suffrages
Hours intercalated?:
Personalization: Executed for a man named Peter, once thought to have been Cardinal Pierre de Foix; a 16th-century inscription on fol. 2 indicates ownership by Charles le Goirz (?), Morin; ex libris inscription in red ink of Jacques de Alberte, abbé de Santa Chiesa with date 1591 on first flyleaf.
Scribe: Unknown
Illuminator: Unknown
Patron: Executed for a man named Peter, once thought to have been Cardinal Pierre de Foix
Materials: Vellum
Binding original?: No
Binding description: 17th- or 18th-century red morocco gilt in olive morocco case with traces of clasp; case lettered: ‘Missale Romanum MSS.’
Folio height (in centimeters): 16.5
Folio width (in centimeters): 11
