Holding institution title: W.239, Book of Hours, Latin (1430-1445 CE, Bruges (?))
Holding institution classification: Book of Hours
Holding institution location: Baltimore, MD
URL: https://thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W239/description.html
URL2: https://manuscripts.thewalters.org/viewer.php?id=W.239
Digitization status: Digitized
Date: 1430-1445
Language(s): Latin
Use:
Country of production: Belgium
City or region of production: Bruges?
Illumination contents: Woman holding a white chain attached to a coat of arms, St. Margaret and the dragon, St. Margaret guarding sheep in initial G, St. Sebastian, St. Sebastian in initial O, St. Anthony, Temptation of St. Anthony in initial O, Crucifixion, Nativity, Annunciation to the Shepherds, Massacre of an Innocent, Adoration of the Magi, Presentation in the Temple, Coronation of the Virgin, Last Judgment, Office of the Dead
Text contents: Calendar, Added Suffrages to Saints Margaret, Sebastian, and Anthony, Hours of the Cross, Mass of the Virgin, Gospel Sequences, Hours of the Virgin, Advent Hours of the Virgin, Penitential Psalms, Office of the Dead, Litany, Petitions, Collects
Hours intercalated?:
Personalization:
Scribe: Unknown
Illuminator: Master of the Gold Scrolls and followers
Patron: De Mailly branch of the Mametz family of Picardy
Materials: Parchment
Binding original?: No
Binding description: Early nineteenth-century French red leather binding; gold tooling with foliate and floral designs on boards and spine; similar to binding signed Gaudreau, although no signature is present; gilded title on spine reads “Officium M. S.”; page edges are gilded
Folio height (in centimeters): 16.7
Folio width (in centimeters): 12.3
