Holding institution title: W.164, Prayer Book, including Office of the Dead, Latin (1430-1440 CE, Brabant (?))
Holding institution classification: Prayer book with Office of the Dead
Holding institution location: Baltimore, MD
URL: https://thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W164/description.html
URL2: https://manuscripts.thewalters.org/viewer.php?id=W.164
Digitization status: Digitized
Date: 1430-1440
Language(s): Latin, French
Use: Tournai or Cambrai (Calendar), Office of the Dead (Liège)
Country of production: Netherlands
City or region of production: Brabant?
Illumination contents: Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane, Christ’s Arrest, Christ before Pilate, Flagellation, Christ carrying the Cross, Crucifixion, Descent from the Cross, Entombment, Office of the Dead, St. John the Evangelist, St. George and the Dragon, Ascension, Pentecost, Trinity, St. Helen, St. Michael, St. John the Baptist, Sts. Peter and Paul, St. Andrew, St. John the Evangelist, St. James Major, Two Apostle Saints, St. Stephen, St. Margaret and the Dragon, St. Anne with Virgin and Child on lap, Two Virgin Saints, St. Maurus, Feast of Relics with evidence of pilgrim’s badge at top right of image, Martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket, Four Martyr Saints, St. Martin, St. Nicholas, St. Francis, St. Louis of France, Two confessor saints, St. Mary Magdalene, St. Catherine of Alexandria, Martyrdom of St. Dionysius, St. Lawrence, St. Nicasius, St. Vincent, St. Clement, All Saints, Kiss of Peace and Mercy, St. Aegydius, St. Lupus, St. Desiderius martyred, St. Julian the Hospitaller and wife
Text contents: Calendar, Added French Prayer to God the Father, Hours of the Passion, Office of the Dead, Passion Sequence of Saint John and Collect, Suffrages, Added Suffrages to Saints Anthony and Barbara
Hours intercalated?:
Personalization:
Scribe: Unknown
Illuminator: Masters of the Gold Scrolls
Patron: Unknown; original owner possibly had Franciscan and Francophile sympathies
Materials: Parchment
Binding original?: No
Binding description: Rebound second half of nineteenth century by Chambolle-Duru, Paris; mustard-colored leather; sewn on five cords, silk endbands in red, yellow, and green, with matching ribbon marker; spine inscribed “LIVRE D’HEURES” and at bottom “MANUSCRIT”; binder’s name in gold on bottom turn-in, inside upper board; edges of pages regilt
Folio height (in centimeters): 13.8
Folio width (in centimeters): 10.2
