Holding institution title: W.169, Hours of Pastor Denys, Latin (1400-1425 CE, Flanders)
Holding institution classification: Book of Hours
Holding institution location: Baltimore, MD
URL: https://thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W169/description.html
URL2: https://manuscripts.thewalters.org/viewer.php?id=W.169
Digitization status: Digitized
Date: 1400-1450
Language(s): Latin
Use: Bruges and Arras (Hours of the Virgin)
Country of production: Belgium
City or region of production: Bruges or Ghent
Illumination contents: Christ before Pilate, Flagellation of Christ, Christ carrying the Cross, Lamentation, Entombment, Apocalyptic Virgo Lactans, Last Judgment in initial D, Sts. John the Baptist and Peter, Sts. Christopher and Anthony, Sts. Cornelius and Livin, Daniel in the Lions’ Den, Sts. Catherine and Elizabeth of Hungary and Barbara
Text contents: Calendar, Prayer to the Virgin, Prayers to God the Father, Hours of the Cross, Salutations to the Virgin, Five Joys of Mary, Prayers of St. Calixtus Pope, Hours of the Virgin, Penitential Psalms and Litany, Devotional Sequence on the Virgin, Eight Verses of Saint Bernard, Prayers to the Virgin, Prayer on the Seven Last Words of Christ, Gospel Sequence of John, Prayers to the Cross, to God the Father, and Christ, Prayer on the Sorrow of the Virgin by the Cross, Seven Joys of the Virgin, Apostles’ Salutation to the Virgin, Suffrages, Hours of the Holy Spirit, Hours of the Cross, Psalms and Athanasian Creed, Communion Prayers, Three Prayers Referring to Teaching of Holy Man
Hours intercalated?:
Personalization:
Scribe: Unknown
Illuminator: Unknown
Patron: Unknown; woman’s use in Bruges or Ghent. Although her name is Unknown (as are those subsequent earlier owners), its first folio bears the later ownership inscription of Pastor Denys, ca. 1700.
Materials: Parchment
Binding original?: No
Binding description: Late nineteenth- or early twentieth-century binding by Léon Gruel, Paris; purple velvet over cardboard with gilt edges
Folio height (in centimeters): 16
Folio width (in centimeters): 11.5
