Holding institution title: W.185, Doffinnes Hours, Latin (1400-1425 CE, Utrecht)
Holding institution classification: Book of Hours
Holding institution location: Baltimore, MD
URL: https://thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W185/description.html
URL2: https://manuscripts.thewalters.org/viewer.php?id=W.185
Digitization status: Digitized
Date: 1400-1425
Language(s): Latin, Flemish
Use: Utrecht (Calendar), Use of the Windesheim Congregation (Hours of the Virgin)
Country of production: Netherlands
City or region of production: Utrecht
Illumination contents: Annunciation, Betrayal, Virgin and Child in initial D, Pilate washing his hands, Flagellation, Christ carrying the Cross, Crucifixion, Lamentatino, Entombment, Pentecost, Last Judgment, Souls in the bosom of God, Trinity enthroned
Text contents: Calendar, Hours of the Virgin, Short Hours of the Holy Spirit, Penitential Psalms, Litany, Office of the Dead, Prayers in Latin, Hours of the Eternal Wisdom in Dutch, Added Notes in French, Added Prayer to St. Mary in Dutch
Hours intercalated?:
Personalization:
Scribe: Johannes de Malborch
Illuminator: Master of Walters 185
Patron: Unknown; probably for a married couple, who were originally represented kneeling with scrolls and their coats of arms in the margins, flanking a full-page miniature of the Crucifixion (fol. 72v), but whose figures and arms were later erased and overpainted with white.
Materials: Parchment
Binding original?: No
Binding description: Seventeenth- or eighteenth-century cream-colored parchment over pasteboards; parchment pastedowns; spine and boards bearing a gold floral stamp; all edges gilt (front cover repaired or reattached with modern cloth)
Folio height (in centimeters): 12.6
Folio width (in centimeters): 9.6
