Holding institution title: Book of Hours
Holding institution classification: Book of Hours
Holding institution location: Los Angeles, CA
URL: https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/1400/workshop-of-gerard-horenbout-book-of-hours-flemish-about-1500/
URL2: N/A
Digitization status: Partially digitized
Date: 1475 – 1525
Language(s): German (Cologne Dialect)
Use: Utrecht
Country of production: Germany and Belgium
City or region of production: Cologne and Ghent
Illumination contents: Annunciation, Visitation in initial H, Woman on her Deathbed with the Virgin Mary and Christ Child and Devils in initial O, Priest Celebrating Mass in initial G, Trinity in initial O, Souls in Purgatory in initial G, King David Praying in initial H, Crucifixion with female owner portrait, Mass of St. Gregory, Christ Crowned with Thorns in initial O, Virgin Mary and Christ Child Enthroned, Virgin Mary and Christ Child in initial G, Virgin Mary and Christ Child Enthroned, Virgin of the Apocalypse in initial G, Woman receiving Communion in initial O
Text contents: Calendar, Hours of the Virgin, Penitential Psalms
Hours intercalated?:
Personalization: A kneeling female owner portrait appears on f. 86v before an image of the Crucifixion. A similarly clothed woman kneels before a priest administering the Eucharist to her on f. 113v. in a historiated initial O
Scribe: Unknown
Illuminator: Gerard Horenbout (Flemish, 1465-1541)
Patron:
Materials: Tempera colors and gold paint on parchment
Binding original?: No
Binding description: Bound between pasteboard covered with modern white parchment
Folio height (in centimeters): 15.2
Folio width (in centimeters): 11.1
