Holding institution title: W.172, Book of Hours, Use of Augustinian Canons of Windesheim Chapter
Holding institution classification: Book of Hours
Holding institution location: Baltimore, MD
URL: https://thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W172/description.html
URL2: https://manuscripts.thewalters.org/viewer.php?id=W.172
Digitization status: Digitized
Date: 1425-1475
Language(s): Latin
Use: Augustinian Canons of Windesheim
Country of production: Belgium
City or region of production: Ghent
Illumination contents: Agony in the garden of Gethsemane, Annunciation, Betrayal and arrest of Christ, Visitation in initial D, Christ before Pilate, Annunciation to the Shepherds in initial D, Flagellation, Nativity in initial D, Christ carrying the cross, Adoration of the Magi in initial D, Crucifixion, Presentation in the Temple in initial D, Descent from the Cross, Flight into Egypt in initial D, Entombment, Massacre of an Innocent in initial C, Virgin of Humility, King David penitent in initial D, Funeral service and Purgatory, Raising of Lazarus in initial D
Text contents: Calendar, Hours of the Virgin, Devotional Sequence, Penitential Psalms, Litany, Petitions, Collects, Prayers, Office of the Dead, Nine Lessons, Prayers, Added Magnificat (seventeenth-century)
Hours intercalated?:
Personalization:
Scribe: Unknown
Illuminator: Master of the Ghent Privileges and associates
Patron: Augustinian Canons of the Windesheim Chapter
Materials: Medium to heavy parchment, well prepared; Flyleaves are wove paper; front flyleaf ii has a watermark with the word “HILD,” and back flyleaf i has a unicorn watermark
Binding original?: No
Binding description: Rebound with red-brown velvet in Belgium (?), late nineteenth century; spine rounded, backed at that time; endbands glued, with striped cloth around cord core; edges speckled with red; pastedowns and facing flyleaves made of purple-gray and white marbleized paper
Folio height (in centimeters): 21.7
Folio width (in centimeters): 16.3
