Holding institution title: W.423, Book of Hours (for use of Rome), Latin (1500-1510 CE, Ghent or Bruges)
Holding institution classification: Book of Hours
Holding institution location: Baltimore, MD
URL: https://thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W423/description.html
URL2: https://manuscripts.thewalters.org/viewer.php?id=W.423
Digitization status: Digitized
Date: 1475-1535
Language(s): Latin
Use:
Country of production: Belgium
City or region of production: Ghent or Bruges
Illumination contents: N/A
Text contents: Calendar, Hours of the Cross, Hours of the Holy Spirit, Mass of the Virgin, Hours of the Virgin, Advent Hours of the Virgin, Penitential Psalms, Litany, Petitions, Collects, Office of the Dead, Obsecro te, Psalter of St. Jerome
Hours intercalated?:
Personalization:
Scribe: Unknown
Illuminator: associate of the Master of the Dresden Prayerbook
Patron: Unknown; reference to a deceased female named “N” in Office of the Dead
Materials: Very thin parchment
Binding original?: No
Binding description: Bound in Germany (?) in seventeenth century; silver alloy (.25 mm thick) on top of wooden boards; allegorical theme of Eloquence triumphing over Force on upper board, Contentment of Love on lower board
Folio height (in centimeters): 7
Folio width (in centimeters): 4.6
