W.31, 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/182319

URL2: N/A

Digitization status: Partially digitized

Date: 1445 – 1500

Language(s): Latin

Use: Rome

Country of production: Belgium

City or region of production: Bruges

Illumination contents: Angels Holding Heraldic Shield, Crucifixion, Pentecost, Virgin Mary and Christ Child, Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity, Annunciation to the Shepherds, Adoration of the Magi, Presentation in the Temple, Massacre of the Innocents, Flight into Egypt, Coronation of the Virgin, King David Praying, Raising of Lazarus, St. Jerome

Text contents: Calendar, Hours of the Cross, Hours of the Holy Spirit, Hours of the Virgin, Advent Hours of the Virgin, Penitential Psalms, Litany, Office of the Dead, Psalter of St. Jerome

Hours intercalated?:

Personalization: A heraldic shield is held by angels on f. 2v.

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Binding original?: No

Binding description: 18th-century brown morocco, gold-tooled, gilt edges, in tan pigskin box labeled: Horae Beatae Virginis Mariae 16 cent, signed JPW 1941.

Folio height (in centimeters): 10.9

Folio width (in centimeters): 7.4

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