Holding institution title: W.435, Book of Hours, Latin (1490 CE, Bruges)
Holding institution classification: Book of Hours
Holding institution location: Baltimore, MD
URL: https://thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W435/description.html
URL2: https://manuscripts.thewalters.org/viewer.php?id=W.435
Digitization status: Digitized
Date: 1490
Language(s): Latin, French
Use:
Country of production: Belgium
City or region of production: Bruges
Illumination contents: St. John the Evangelist, St. Luke, St. Matthew, St. Mark, Crucifixion, Pentecost, Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity, Annunciation to the Shepherds, Adoration of the Magi, Presentation in the Temple, Monks playing blind man’s bluff, Flight into Egypt with falling idol, Coronation of the Virgin by the Trinity, King David Penitent, Raising of Lazarus, St. Michael, St. John the Baptist, St. John the Evangelist, Sts. Peter and Paul, St. James Major, St. Stephen, St. Lawrence, St. Christopher, St. Sebastian, St. Nicholas, St. Claudius, St. Jerome penitent, St. Francis, St. Anthony, St. Adrian, St. Anne, St. Mary Magdalene, St. Catherine, St. Margaret and the dragon, St. Barbara, St. Apollonia
Text contents: Easter Tables, Calendar, Gospel Sequences, Hours of the Cross, Hours of the Holy Spirit, Hours of the Virgin, Penitential Psalms, Litany, Petitions, Invocations, Collects, Office of the Dead, Suffrages with intercalated quatrains, Two Communion Prayers, Prayer Lamenting Sorrow of the Virgin by the Cross, Seven Prayers of St. Gregory, Communion Prayers, Prayer to the Virgin, Prayers to Christ on the Cross beginning with quatrain
Hours intercalated?:
Personalization:
Scribe: Unknown
Illuminator: Master of Edward IV and followers
Patron: Unknown
Materials: Parchment
Binding original?: No
Binding description: Bound in Belgium(?) ca. sixteenth century; crimson velvet over wooden boards; sides are embroidered in panel-and-frame design, displayed and cupped flowers in relief are worked in silver wire wrapped around thread, silver gilded thread wound around dyed yellow silk thread is used for foliate pattern; spine covered with crimson velvet, hollow and lined with red buckram since rebacking in 1949 by MacDonald, New York; endbands of a heavy yellowish rose thread; edges gilded, gauffered with punched Italianate plaitwork design (cf. inscription dated 1546); evidence of former fastening by tie attached by rivets to center fore-edge of upper and lower boards (holes on front and back pastedowns, impressions on front flyleaves)
Folio height (in centimeters): 14.7
Folio width (in centimeters): 10.4
