Holding institution title: W.211, Book of Hours, Latin (1440 CE, Bruges)
Holding institution classification: Book of Hours
Holding institution location: Baltimore, MD
URL: https://thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W211/description.html
URL2: https://manuscripts.thewalters.org/viewer.php?id=W.211
Digitization status: Digitized
Date: 1415-1465
Language(s): Latin, French
Use:
Country of production: Belgium
City or region of production: Bruges
Illumination contents: Trinity enthhroned, Hell mouth, Pentecost, All Saints, Veneration of the Host, Crucifixion, Virgo lactans, St. Veronica holding veil with the Holy Face, Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity, Adoration, Circumcision, Presentation in the Temple, Adoration of the Magi, Rest on the Flight into Egypt, St. Jodocus, St. Christopher, St. Peter of Luxembourg with vision of the Crucifix, Last Judgment, Office of the Dead
Text contents: Calendar, Sunday Hours and Mass of the Trinity, Monday Hours and Mass of the Dead, Tuesday Hours and Mass of the Holy Spirit, Wednesday Hours and Mass of All Saints, Thursday Hours and mass of the Sacrament, Friday Hours and Mass of the Cross, Saturday Hours and Mass of the Virgin, Gospel Sequences, Prayer to the Holy Face, Two Sequences of Five Joys of the Virgin, Prayers to the Virgin, Prayer of Indulgence, Seven Temporal Joys of the Virgin, Seven Spiritual Joys of the Virgin, Prayer on Seven Last Words of Our Lord, Prayer of St. Gregory, Communion Prayer, Two Prayers to the Virgin, Hymn to the Virgin and Seven Versicles, Prayer to Christ, Hours of the Virgin, Suffrages, Devotional Sequence to Saints, Eight Verses of St. Bernard (closing prayer cites “.N.” for name of suppliant), Fifteen Joys of the Virgin in French, Seven Requests to Our Lord in French, Penitential Psalms, Litany, Collects, Office of the Dead
Hours intercalated?:
Personalization:
Scribe: Unknown
Illuminator: Masters of the Gold Scrolls
Patron: Unknown
Materials: Parchment
Binding original?: No
Binding description: Rebound in Paris by León Gruel ca. 1900; dark red velvet with rounded spine; gilded edges with leather tabs, two tabs end in a leather ball
Folio height (in centimeters): 11.9
Folio width (in centimeters): 8.3
