Holding institution title: Book of Hours
Holding institution classification: Book of Hours
Holding institution location: New York, NY
URL: https://www.themorgan.org/manuscript/161005
URL2: N/A
Digitization status: Partially digitized
Date: 1450 – 1500
Language(s): Latin
Use: Rome
Country of production: France
City or region of production: Paris?
Illumination contents: Feasting, Aquarius, Warming before the Fire, Pisces, Pruning vines, Aries, Making flower wreaths, Taurus, Lovers on a horse, Gemini, Mowing, Cancer, Reaping, Leo, Threshing, Virgo, Treading grapes, Libra, Sowing, Scorpio, Gathering acorns, Sagittarius, Slaughtering a pig, Capricorn, St. John the Evangelist, Jousting knight in initial I, St. Luke, St. Matthew, St. Mark, Kneeling male and female owner portraits presented by St. John the Baptist to the Virgin Mary and Christ Child, Pietà in initial O, Annunciation, Christ blessing in initial D, Visitation, Nativity, Annunciation to the Shepherds, Presentation in the Temple, Adoration of the Magi, Flight into Egypt, Coronation of the Virgin, King David praying, Crucifixion, Pentecost, Dance of Death, Female corpse in sarcophagus in initial D, Archangel Michael, St. John the Baptist, St. John the Evangelist, St. Christopher, St. Stephen, St. Sebastian, St. Peter, St. Nicholas, St. Anthony, St. Anne with the Virgin Mary and Christ Child, St. Mary Magdalene, St. Catherine, St. Barbara, St. Apollonia, St. Margaret
Text contents: Calendar, Gospel Sequences, Obsecro te, O Intemerata, Hours of the Virgin, Penitential Psalms, Hours of the Cross, Hours of the Holy Spirit, Office of the Dead, Suffrages
Hours intercalated?:
Personalization: Kneeling male and female owner portraits are presented by St. John the Baptist to the Virgin Mary and Christ Child on f. 22r at the beginning of the prayer “Obsecro te.”
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Binding original?: No
Binding description: 19th-century black morocco.
Folio height (in centimeters): 18.3
Folio width (in centimeters): 12.4
