Holding institution title: W.427, Book of Hours, Latin (1500 CE, Bruges)
Holding institution classification: Book of Hours
Holding institution location: Baltimore, MD
URL: https://thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W427/description.html
URL2: https://manuscripts.thewalters.org/viewer.php?id=W.427
Digitization status: Digitized
Date: 1500
Language(s): Latin
Use:
Country of production: Belgium
City or region of production: Bruges
Illumination contents: Warming before the Fire, Aquarius, Pruning espalier tree, Pisces, Plowing, Aries, Tending to sheep, Taurus, Lute player and woman in boat, Gemini, Shearing sheep, Cancer, Scything, Leo, Reaping, Virgo, Sowing seed, Libra, Crushing grapes, Scorpio, Slaughtering Ox, Sagittarius, Slaughtering pig, Capricorn, Salvator mundi, Crucifixion, Pentecost, St. John the Evangelist, St. Luke, St. Matthew, St. Mark, 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, Bathsheba observed by David, Raising of Lazarus, Pietà
Text contents: Calendar, Suffrage to the Holy Face, Hours of the Cross, Hours of the Holy Spirit, Mass of the Virgin, Gospel Sequences, Hours of the Virgin, Advent Hours of the Virgin, Penitential Psalms, Litany, Petitions, Collects, Office of the Dead, Obsecro te, O Intemerata, Athanasian Creed
Hours intercalated?:
Personalization:
Scribe: Unknown
Illuminator: Unknown; influenced by: Master of the Prayerbooks, the Master of the Dresden Prayerbook, and the Master of the David Scenes
Patron: Unknown woman; female patron with Franciscan affinity,
Materials: Parchment
Binding original?: No
Binding description: Nineteenth- or twentieth-century re-binding from France by Léon Gruel; worn crimson velvet; rounded spine; white edgebead on endbands; gilt edges pre-Gruel
Folio height (in centimeters): 9.4
Folio width (in centimeters): 6.5
