Holding institution title: Book of Hours
Holding institution classification: Book of Hours
Holding institution location: New York, NY
URL: https://www.themorgan.org/manuscript/76921
URL2: N/A
Digitization status: Partially digitized
Date: 1465-1468
Language(s): Latin, French
Use: Rome
Country of production: France
City or region of production: Tours and Bourges
Illumination contents: Warming before the fire, Aquarius, Digging, Pisces, Pruning vines, Aries, Holding a branch, Taurus, Lovers in a garden, Gemini, Mowing, Cancer, Reaping, Leo, Sowing, Virgo, Gathering acorns, Libra, Treading grapes, Scorpio, Baking bread, Sagittarius, Slaughtering a pig, Capricorn, St. John the Evangelist, St. Luke painting the Virgin, St. Mathew, St. Mark, Pietà, Virgin Mary and Christ Child enthroned, Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity, Adoration of the Magi, Flight into Egypt, Death of the Virgin, Assumption of the Virgin, Coronation of the Virgin, St. John the Baptist, St. John the Evangelist, St. Sebastian, St. Christopher, St. Catherine, Noli me tangere, Betrayal of Christ, David and Goliath, Christ carrying the Cross, Pentecost, Three Living and the Three Dead
Text contents: Calendar, Gospel Sequences, Obsecro te, O Intemerata, Hours of the Virgin, Suffrages, Passion According to St. John, Penitential Psalms, Litany, Hours of the Passion, Hours of the Holy Spirit, Office of the Dead
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Personalization: changes made in 1470
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Binding original?: No
Binding description: Red morocco gilt, French, 17th century, one remaining clasp, with the chiffres of Charles d’Orleans-Valois, comte d’Angoulême; in red box case.
Folio height (in centimeters): 10.8
Folio width (in centimeters): 8
