Holding institution title: Book of Hours
Holding institution classification: Book of Hours
Holding institution location: New York, NY
URL: https://www.themorgan.org/manuscript/161048
URL2: N/A
Digitization status: Not digitized
Date: 1500 – 1575
Language(s): Latin
Use: Rome
Country of production: Belgium
City or region of production: Brussels?
Illumination contents: Unknown
Text contents: Calendar, Gospel Lection from John, The Passion according to Matthew, The Passion According to Mark, The Passion according to Luke, The Passion according to John, Penitential Psalms, Litany, Obsecro te, Prayer: “Missus est Gab…”, Office of the Conception, Prayer: “Conditor celi”, Hours of the Holy Spirit, Hours of the Virgin, Hours of the Cross, Added prayers (seventeenth century)
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Binding original?: No
Binding description: Dyed straw in geometric patterns over boards, spine rebacked; upper cover has a cross with star decoration in center panel; lower cover has central panel on which a blue paper rectangle is affixed with nails at corners; glued onto this at center is either a drawing in brown ink or engraving of the standing Christ wearing the Crown of Thorns, loin cloth, flesh dotted with dripping blood from whipping, red blood streaks painted onto the body. According to Deborah Evetts, straw bindings of this type were made for books by Napoleonic prisoners.
Folio height (in centimeters): 18.7
Folio width (in centimeters): 9.9
