Holding institution title: W.279, Book of Hours, Latin (1470 CE, Bruges (?))
Holding institution classification: Book of Hours
Holding institution location: Baltimore, MD
URL: https://thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W279/description.html
URL2: https://manuscripts.thewalters.org/viewer.php?id=W.279
Digitization status: Digitized
Date: 1470
Language(s): Latin
Use:
Country of production: Belgium
City or region of production: Bruges?
Illumination contents: Virgin and Child in initial O, Virgin and Child in initial O, Nativity, Visitation, Annunciation to the Shepherds, Presentation in the Temple, Circumcision of Christ, Flight into Egypt and fall of the idol, Coronation of the Virgin, King David Penitent, Office of the Dead, St. Christopher, St. Sebastian in initial O, St. John the Baptist in initial I, Sts. Peter and Paul in initial P, St. James Major in initial O, St. Anthony in initial A, All Saints in initial O, St. Barbara, St. Margaret and the Dragon in initial A, St. Apollonia in initial I, St. Mary Magdalene in initial I, Virgin and Child in initial A
Text contents: Calendar, Gospel Sequences, Obsecro te, O Intemerata, Hours of the Cross, Hours of the Virgin, Penitential Psalms, Litany, Petitions, Collects, Office of the Dead, Suffrages, Added Hymn to the Virgin
Hours intercalated?:
Personalization:
Scribe: Unknown
Illuminator: Loyset Liédet orbit
Patron: Unknown
Materials: Medium-thick weight parchment,
Binding original?: No
Binding description: Bound in Belgium(?) in fifteenth or sixteenth century; re-backed and spine received blind tooling ca. 1900; dark reddish brown leather boards; five single bands sewn on; rounded and backed spine; decorative blind tooling repeated four times on upper and lower board; modern green, beige and white end bands with edge bead around core; two silver edge pin fastenings attached to upper board ca. 1900
Folio height (in centimeters): 20
Folio width (in centimeters): 13.9
