Holding institution title: Farnese Hours
Holding institution classification: Book of Hours
Holding institution location: New York, NY
URL: https://www.themorgan.org/manuscript/77250
URL2: N/A
Digitization status: Partially digitized
Date: 1546
Language(s): Latin
Use: Rome
Country of production: Italy
City or region of production: Rome
Illumination contents: Annunciation, Arms of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese surmounted by a cardinal’s hat within a white cartouche, Isaiah prophesying to King Ahaz, Sacrifice of Isaac, Visitation, Personifications of Justice and Peace embracing, Bay of Naples, Nativity, Temptation of Adam and Eve, Annunciation to the Shepherds, Tiburtine Sibyl and Emperor Augustus with apparition of the Virgin and Child, Bust of Alexander the Great, Vulcan, Owner portrait bust of Alessandro Farnese, Circumcision of Christ, Baptism of Christ, Adoration of the Magi, Queen of Sheba worships Solomon, Feast of Testaccio, Flight into Egypt, Moses parting the Red Sea and Pharaoh and his soldiers flooded, Owner portrait bust of Alessandro Farnese, Coronation of the Virgin, Esther crowned by King Ahasuerus, Mars, Isola Tiburtina, Minerva, Annunciation, Creation of the Sun and Moon, Holy Family, Death of Uriah, King David praying, Landscape of Sicily, Procession on Feast of Corpus Christi with views of old St. Peter’s and Castello Sant’Angelo, Death enthroned, Raising of Lazarus, Battle between horsemen and skeletons, Crucifixion, Death of Aaron on Mount Hor with fiery serpent, Pentecost, Tower of Babel, St. Peter, Old St. Peter’s, Roman ruin and obelisk, Sibyl
Text contents: Hours of the Virgin, Hours of the Virgin for Advent, Penitential Psalms, Litany, Office of the Dead, Hours of the Cross, Hours of the Holy Spirit, Athanasian Creed, Colophon
Hours intercalated?:
Personalization: Made for Cardinal Alessandro Farnese (1520-1589)
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Patron: Cardinal Alessandro Farnese (1520-1589)
Materials: Vellum
Binding original?: No
Binding description: 18th-century brown leather envelope; in red morocco box (1907) by Léon Gruel
Folio height (in centimeters): 17.3
Folio width (in centimeters): 11
