Holding institution title: W.177, Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Holding institution classification: Book of Hours
Holding institution location: Baltimore, MD
URL: https://thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W177/description.html
URL2: https://manuscripts.thewalters.org/viewer.php?id=W.177#page/1/mode/2up
Digitization status: Digitized
Date: 1460-1470
Language(s): Latin
Use: Rome
Country of production: Belgium
City or region of production: Bruges
Illumination contents: Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity, Annunciation to the shepherds, Adoration of the Magi, Presentation in the temple, Massacre of an innocent, Flight into Egypt and fall of an idol, Christ blessing the Virgin, Office of the Dead, Pentecost, Crucifixion
Text contents: Calendar, Hours of the Virgin, Advent Hours of the Virgin, Penitential Psalms, Litany, petitions, and collects, Office of the Dead, Hours of the Cross, Hours of the Holy Spirit, Mass of the Virgin
Hours intercalated?:
Personalization:
Scribe: Unknown
Illuminator: artists in the Circle of Willem Vrelant; Known as: Circle of Guillaume Vrelant
Patron: Might have been created for a member of the Italian community in Bruges
Materials: Well-finished, well-selected, clean white parchment, thin to medium weight, with thicker leaves for inserted miniatures
Binding original?: No
Binding description: Italian eighteenth-century full brown morocco, resewn on three single cords; gilt decorative roll borders on boards with foliate decorations in all corners; flat spine with three panels (not aligned with sewing stations) framed in gilt, each with foliate ornament at center; all edges gilt; twelve modern leather dealer tabs (or remains thereof) at fore-edge; black-speckled blue paper pastedowns
Folio height (in centimeters): 8
Folio width (in centimeters): 6
