W.29, The Morgan Library & Museum

Holding institution title: Book of Hours

Holding institution classification: Book of Hours

Holding institution location: New York, NY

URL: https://www.themorgan.org/manuscript/182311

URL2: N/A

Digitization status: Partially digitized

Date: 1435 – 1500

Language(s): Latin

Use: Rome

Country of production: Italy

City or region of production: Northern Italy, Ferrara?

Illumination contents: Virgin Mary and Christ Child in initial D, St. Paul, Skull, Christ as Man of Sorrows, King David Praying

Text contents: Calendar, Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead, Hours of the Passion, Penitential Psalms, Litany

Hours intercalated?:

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Binding original?: No

Binding description: 17th-century dark brown calf, gold tooled, 2 clasps, gilt and gauffered edges, in marbled paper box, brown morocco spine, labeled: Latin Prayer Book, MS circa 1500, signed JPW 1946.

Folio height (in centimeters): 9.4

Folio width (in centimeters): 6.5

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