Holding institution title: W.284, Book of Hours, Latin (1420-1480 CE)
Holding institution classification: Book of Hours
Holding institution location: Baltimore, MD
URL: https://thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W284/description.html
URL2: N/A
Digitization status: Digitized
Date: 1395-1505
Language(s): Latin, French
Use: Coutances
Country of production: France
City or region of production: Rouen
Illumination contents: Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity, Annunciation to the Shepherds, Adoration of the Magi, Presentation in the Temple, Flight into Egypt and Massacre of the Innocents, Coronation of the Virgin, Crucifixion, Pentecost, Nathan admonishing King David, Four monks seated behind corpse with Archangel Michael, St. John the Evangelist with kneeling female owner portrait
Text contents: Calendar, Gospel Sequences, Passion according to John, Prayers to Christ, Prayers to the Virgin, Hours of the Virgin, Hours of the Cross, Hours of the Holy Spirit, Seven Penitential Psalms, Litany, Office of the Dead, Suffrages, Obsecro te, O Intemerata, Verse prayer to Christ, Prayer to the Virgin, Fifteen Joys of the Virgin, Prayer to the Cross, Suffrage to St. John the Evangelist
Hours intercalated?:
Personalization: A female owner is pictured kneeling before St. John the Evangelist on f. 139v
Scribe: Unknown
Illuminator: artists trained in Rouen in the style of the Master of the Geneva Latini
Patron: Unknown; initial female owner is depicted on fol. 139v kneeling in front of St. John the Evangelist. Two coats of arms probably associated with the owner appear twice, on fol. 139r-v.
Materials: Unknown
Binding original?: No
Binding description: Rebound in France in the second quarter of the sixteenth century; brown calf; sewn on five slit straps; corners and spine repaired in the nineteenth century
Folio height (in centimeters): 22.5
Folio width (in centimeters): 14.9
