Holding institution title: Book of Hours
Holding institution classification: Book of Hours
Holding institution location: New York, NY
URL: https://www.themorgan.org/manuscript/77056
URL2: N/A
Digitization status: Partially digitized
Date: 1525
Language(s): Latin
Use: Orléans
Country of production: France
City or region of production: Rouen
Illumination contents: Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, St. John the Evangelist, St. Luke, St. Matthew, St. Mark, Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, Pietà, Virgin Mary and Christ Child with the infant St. John the Baptist, Virgin Mary and Christ Child enthroned, Annunciation, Annunciation, Visitation, Crucifixion, Pentecost, Nativity, Annunciation to the Shepherds, Adoration of the Magi, Presentation in the Temple, Repose of the Virgin Mary and Christ Child, Death of the Virgin, David observing Bathsheba, Raising of Lazarus, St. Veranus, St. Evurtius, St. Anianus, St. John the Baptist, Sts. Peter and Paul, St. Laurence, St. Sebastian, St. Adrian, St. Martin, St. Nicholas, St. Claudius, St. Anthony of Padua, St. Anthony, St. Roch, St. Anne teaching the Virgin Mary to Read, St. Mary Magdalene, St. Margaret, St. Apollonia, St. Barbara
Text contents: Almanac for the years 1525-1550, Passage on the year, Passage on the months, Passage on the divisions of months, Passage on golden numbers, Passage on the moon, Calendar with two Latin quatrains on each month, Gospel Sequences, The Passion according to John, Prayer of St. Bede on the Seven Last Words of Christ, Benediction, Stabat mater, Obsecro te, O Intemerata, Hours of the Virgin, Hours of the Cross, Hours of the Holy Spirit, Penitential Psalms, Litany, Office of the Dead, Suffrages, Prayer to God and Angels, Prayers at the Mass, Hours of St. Barbara
Hours intercalated?: 1
Personalization: Arms of unidentified original owner in the borders: quarterly: 1-4, argent under an oak tree proper, two pigs sable feeding; azure a stag’s head or, between the horns a human head of the second with a crown (or fleur-de-lis) above it, with the motto: ROSE APRES LIVER.
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Materials: Vellum
Binding original?: No
Binding description: French 18th-century red morocco, gold-tooled.
Folio height (in centimeters): 17.1
Folio width (in centimeters): 11.5
