Holding institution title: W.270, Book of Hours (Use of Rome), Latin (1440-1450 CE, Bruges)
Holding institution classification: Book of Hours
Holding institution location: Baltimore, MD
URL: https://thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W270/description.html
URL2: https://manuscripts.thewalters.org/viewer.php?id=W.270
Digitization status: Digitized
Date: 1415-1475
Language(s): Latin
Use:
Country of production: Belgium
City or region of production: Bruges
Illumination contents: Heraldry, Crucifixion, Annunciation, Presentation in the Temple, Nativity, Annunciation to the Shepherds, Massacre of the Innocents, Office of the Dead
Text contents: Calendar, Hours of the Cross, Mass of the Virgin, Hours of the Virgin, Penitential Psalms, Litany, Petitions, Collects, Office of the Dead
Hours intercalated?:
Personalization:
Scribe: Unknown
Illuminator: Gold Scrolls group
Patron: Unknown; member of the Catalan community in Bruges, and the possibility of Spanish ownership is strengthened by the added seventeenth-century heraldic frontispiece containing arms connected to several families of Spanish origin.
Materials: Parchment
Binding original?: No
Binding description: Rebound in Paris, France, ca. nineteenth century, signed R. Petit; brown boarded-grain goatskin; blind-tooled frame design around sides; fleurs-de-lis, leaf, and petal patterns on outer boards; two gold-tooled fillets around outer edges; gold-tooled foliate turn-ins; marbleized pastedowns and facing flyleaves; red, green, and yellow endbands and red ribbon marker
Folio height (in centimeters): 18.6
Folio width (in centimeters): 14.4
