Holding institution title: Catherine Hours
Holding institution classification: Book of Hours
Holding institution location: Los Angeles, CA
URL: https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/1457/jean-bourdichon-Catherine-hours-french-about-1480-1485/
URL2: N/A
Digitization status: Partially digitized
Date: 1455 – 1510
Language(s): Latin
Use:
Country of production: France
City or region of production: Tours
Illumination contents: Feasting, Aquarius, Warming before the Fire, Pisces, Pruning Vines, Aries, Picking Flowers, Taurus, Holding a Flowering Branch, Gemini, Mowing, Cancer, Reaping, Leo, Threshing, Virgo, Treading Grapes, Virgo, Sowing, Scorpio, Gathering Acorns, Sagittarius, Slaughtering a Pig, Capricorn, Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity, Annunciation to the Shepherds, Adoration of the Magi, Presentation in the Temple, Flight into Egypt, Coronation of the Virgin, Crucifixion, Pentecost, Last Judgment, Job on the Dung Heap, St. Avia receiving Communion from the Virgin
Text contents: Calendar, Hours of the Virgin, Hours of the Cross, Hours of the Holy Spirit, Penitential Psalms, Office of the Dead, Prayer to the Virgin
Hours intercalated?:
Personalization:
Scribe: Unknown
Illuminator: Jean Bourdichon (French, 1457-1521)
Patron:
Materials: Tempera colors, gold, and ink on parchment
Binding original?: No
Binding description: Bound between wood boards covered in red velvet over previous covering of tanned leather
Folio height (in centimeters): 16.4
Folio width (in centimeters): 11.6
