Holding institution title: Book of Hours
Holding institution classification: Book of Hours
Holding institution location: New York, NY
URL: https://www.themorgan.org/manuscript/145415
URL2: N/A
Digitization status: Partially digitized
Date: 1435 – 1485
Language(s): Latin, Dutch
Use: Rome
Country of production: Belgium
City or region of production: Bruges
Illumination contents: St. John the Baptist, St. Adrian, St. Sebastian, St. Michael, St. Catherine, St. Barbara, St. James, St. Christopher, St. Anne teaching the Virgin Mary to read, St. Mary Magdalene, St. Godeleva, St. Henry, St. Margaret, Crucifixion, Male owner portrait and guardian angel, Pentecost, Trinity enthroned, Virgin and Child enthroned with female owner portrait, Pentecost in initial V, St. Bernard, Crucifixion, Christ Child with Instruments of the Passion, Virgin Mary and Christ Child in walled garden, St. John the Evangelist with the Virgin Mary and Christ Child, St. Thomas Becket with vision of Virgin Mary and Christ Child, Pietà, Holy Face, Visitation, Betrayal of Christ, Nativity, Christ Before Pilate, Adoration of the Magi, Christ Carrying the Cross, Presentation in the Temple, Crucifixion, Coronation of the Virgin, Woman wearing hennin playing harp, King David praying, Last Judgment, Office of the Dead, Raising of Lazarus
Text contents: Suffrages, Hours of the Cross, Prayer to one’s guardian angel, Hours of the Holy Spirit, Mass of the Virgin, Gospel Sequences, Hymn: “Veni creator spiritus mentes”, Eight verses of St. Bernard, Seven Final Words of Christ, Prayer to Christ: “O bone ihesu”, Obsecro te, O Intemerata, Prayer: “O iohannes beatissime”, Prayer: “O due gemme celestes maria et iohannes”, Prayer: “Salve regina misericordie”, Seven Celestial Joys of the Virgin, Prayer: “Stabat mater dolorosa”, Prayer to the Holy Face: “Salve sancta facies”, Hours of the Virgin, Hours of the Virgin for Advent, Penitential Psalms, Litany, Office of the Dead
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Personalization: A male owner portait, dressed in black, kneels before a guardian angel on f. 24r. A female owner portrait, also dressed in black, appears kneeling before the Virgin Mary and Christ Child enthroned on f. 32v.
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Binding description: Bound and signed by Johannes Guilebert (his erased inscription on the rear pastedown: “Desen bouc heft ghebonde Jan guill–rt de men heet meese Won̄—-de frere strate”); 15th- or 16th-century dark brown calf over wooden boards, blind stamped with panels, two impressions of the binder’s name (IOHANNES GUILEBERT), two compartments of paired monkeys or birds, and a border of foliage and fruit, separated by a second panel with four birds in medallions, edges gilt and gauffered in lozenge pattern, modern silver clasps.
Folio height (in centimeters): 19.7
Folio width (in centimeters): 13.9
