Holding institution title: W.194, Book of Hours, , Latin (1470-1480 CE, Hainaut (?))
Holding institution classification: Book of Hours
Holding institution location: Baltimore, MD
URL: https://thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W194/description.html
URL2: https://manuscripts.thewalters.org/viewer.php?id=W.194
Digitization status: Digitized
Date: 1470-1480
Language(s): Latin
Use:
Country of production: Belgium
City or region of production: Hainaut?
Illumination contents: Crucifixion, AM monogram in initial D, Pentecost, AM monogram in initial D, Annunciation, Coat of arms in initial D, Vistiation, Nativity, Annunciation to the Shepherds, Adoration of the Magi, Presentation in the Temple, Flight into Egypt, Massacre of the Innocents, Coat of arms in initial D, King David penitent, AM monogram in initial D, St. Anthony
Text contents: Calendar, Hours of the Cross, Hours of the Holy Spirit, Hours of the Virgin, Penitential Psalms, Litany, Suffrages
Hours intercalated?:
Personalization:
Scribe: Unknown
Illuminator: Circle of Simon Marmion, Master of Antoine Rolin, Simon Marmion himself
Patron: Unknown; First owner likely affiliated with Liège and interested in Dominican order, maybe Marie d’Ailly
Materials: Parchment
Binding original?: Yes
Binding description: Brown calfskin over wooden boards (probably oak) with wide, shallow exterior chamfer and tongue corners; re-backed and re-edged at fore-corners ca. 1900; sewn on five slit-tawed straps; covers tooled in blind, four-fillet double frame filled by intersecting four-fillet lines that create lozenges and triangles with five-point stars in each; endbands are of pink silk with an edge-bead around a cord (?) core and are contemporary with the re-backing; edges are undecorated; single catch-and-clasp fastening originally centered at the fore-edge, but holes have been patched
Folio height (in centimeters): 17.1
Folio width (in centimeters): 11.8
