W.167, The Walters Art Museum

Holding institution title: W.167, Amherst Hours, Suso, Henry, 1295-1366, Dutch; Flemish (1400-1500 CE, Netherlands)

Holding institution classification: Book of Hours

Holding institution location: Baltimore, MD

URL: https://thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W167/description.html

URL2: https://manuscripts.thewalters.org/viewer.php?id=W.167

Digitization status: Digitized

Date: 1400-1500

Language(s): Flemish

Use: Utrecht (Calendar)

Country of production: Netherlands

City or region of production: Utrecht?

Illumination contents: St. Andrew, St. Paul, St. Anthony, St. Anthony, St. James Major, St. Anthony, St. James Major, St. Bartholomew, St. Andrew, St. Anthony, St. Paul, St. Peter, St. John the Evangelist, St. Peter, St. John the Evangelist, St. Anthony, St. Bartholomew, St. James Major, St. Anthony, St. Paul, St. Anthony, St. James Major, St. Bartholomew, St. Paul, St. Anthony, St. Andrew, St. James Major, St. Lawrence, St. Bartholomew, St. Stephen, St. Catherine of Alexandria, St. Agnes, St. Dorothea, St. Barbara, St. Anthony, St. James Major, St. Bartholomew, Annunciation, Nativity, Annunciation to the Shepherds, Adoration of the Magi, Massacre of the Innocents, Virgin and Child of the Apocalypse in initial V, Circumcision of Christ, Virgin and Child in initial C, Flight into Egypt, Betrayal of Christ, Christ before Pilate, Fable of the Fox and the Rooster, Flagellation of Christ, Mocking of Christ, Christ carrying the Cross, Crucifixion, Descent from the Cross, Emtombment, David in prayer, Virgin and Child in initial H, Christ in initial O, St. Catherine, St. Barbara, St. Margaret, St. Christopher

Text contents: Calendar, Hours of the Virgin (Matins to None), Mass of the Virgin, Gospel Lessons, The Creed, Hours of the Virgin (Vespers to Compline), Short Hours of the Cross, Penitential Psalms, Litany, Prayer to St. Catherine, Prayer to St. Barbara, Prayers to St. Margaret, Dutch translation of Henry Suso’s Book of Eternal Wisdom (Cursus aeternae sapientiae)

Hours intercalated?:

Personalization:

Scribe: Unknown

Illuminator: Unknown

Patron: Unknown

Materials: Parchment

Binding original?: No

Binding description: Eighteenth-century green morocco over pulp- or paste-board; gilt tooled floral motif

Folio height (in centimeters): 15.5

Folio width (in centimeters): 11.3

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