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/1388/Unknown-maker-book-of-hours-french-about-1400-1410/
URL2: N/A
Digitization status: Partially digitized
Date: 1375 – 1435
Language(s): Latin
Use: Le Mans
Country of production: France
City or region of production: Paris or Le Mans
Illumination contents: The Annunciation, The Visitation, The Nativity, Christ Before Pilate, The Annunciation to the Shepherds, The Flagellation, The Adoration of the Magi, The Presentation in the Temple, The Crucifixion, The Flight into Egypt, The Entombment, The Coronation of the Virgin, The Resurrection, Christ in Majesty, Saint Catherine Presenting a Kneeling Woman to the Virgin and Child, Office of the Dead
Text contents: Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead
Hours intercalated?:
Personalization: First female owner (Catherine?) likely pictured on f. 105r kneeling before the Virgin and Child enthroned before owner’s name saint
Scribe: Unknown
Illuminator: Unknown
Patron: First female owner (Catherine?) likely pictured on f. 105r kneeling before the Virgin and Child enthroned before owner’s name saint
Materials: Tempera colors, gold leaf, gold paint, and ink on parchment
Binding original?: No
Binding description: Bound between pasteboard covered with Renaissance brown calf
Folio height (in centimeters): 18.9
Folio width (in centimeters): 13.2
