Holding institution title: Book of Hours
Holding institution classification: Book of Hours
Holding institution location: New York, NY
URL: https://www.themorgan.org/manuscript/77002
URL2: N/A
Digitization status: Partially digitized
Date: 1450-1500
Language(s): Latin
Use: Paris
Country of production: France
City or region of production: Paris
Illumination contents: Feasting, Aquarius, Warming before the fire, Pisces, Pruning vines, Aries, Making a wreath, Taurus, Falconing, Gemini, Mowing, Cancer, Reaping, Leo, Threshing, Virgo, Treading grapes, Libra, Sowing, Scorpio, Gathering acorns, Sagittarius, Slaughtering a pig, Capricorn, Annunciation, Trinity with personifications of compassion and truth with justice and peace, St. Luke, St. Matthew, St. Mark, Male owner portrait kneeling before the Virgin Mary and Christ Child, Pietà, Visitation, Nativity, Annunciation to the Shepherds, Adoration of the Magi, Presentation in the Temple, Flight into Egypt, Coronation of the Virgin, King David praying, Pentecost
Text contents: Calendar, Gospel Sequences, Obsecro te, O Intemerata, Hours of the Virgin, Penitential Psalms, Litany, Hours of the Cross, Hours of the Holy Spirit, Office of the Dead, Suffrages
Hours intercalated?:
Personalization: Male owner portrait appears on f. 13r kneeling before the Virgin Mary and Christ Child.
Scribe: Attributed to Jean Dubreuil
Illuminator: Maître François (tentatively identified with François le Barbier, père, active c. 1455-1480)
Patron:
Materials: Vellum
Binding original?: Unknown
Binding description: Green velvet (2 clasps) in green morocco case lettered: Horae Beatae Virginis Mariae-French Ms. C. 1470
Folio height (in centimeters): 14
Folio width (in centimeters): 9.8
