Holding institution title: W.208, Book of Hours, Latin (1470 CE, Antwerp(?))
Holding institution classification: Book of Hours
Holding institution location: Baltimore, MD
URL: https://thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W208/description.html
URL2: https://manuscripts.thewalters.org/viewer.php?id=W.208
Digitization status: Digitized
Date: 1445-1495
Language(s): Latin, French
Use:
Country of production: Belgium
City or region of production: Antwerp?
Illumination contents: Crucifixion, Pentecost, Virgo lactans, Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity, Adoration of the Magi, Presentation in the Temple, Massacre of the Innocents, Flight into Egypt and fall of an idol, Death of the Virgin, King David praying
Text contents: Calendar, Hours of the Cross, Hours of the Holy Spirit, Mass of the Virgin with Gospel Sequences, Hours of the Virgin, Advent Hours of the Virgin, Penitential Psalms, Litany, Petitions, Collects
Hours intercalated?:
Personalization:
Scribe: Unknown
Illuminator: Orbit of Lieven van Lathem
Patron: Unknown
Materials: Parchment
Binding original?: Yes
Binding description: Bound in Belgium in the second half of the fifteenth century; dark brown leather over wooden boards, sewn on three cords; possibly rebacked in the eighteenth century; covers blind tooled with patterns of foliage, birds, and lions; red and green silk endbands; traces of gilding on page edges but mostly scraped off; traces of spots for fasteners on fore-edge of boards
Folio height (in centimeters): 11.4
Folio width (in centimeters): 8.4
