Holding institution title: W.441, Book of Hours (Medieval text, Modern illuminations), Latin (1490-1510 CE, Bruges or Ghent, Flanders)
Holding institution classification: Book of Hours
Holding institution location: Baltimore, MD
URL: https://thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W441/description.html
URL2: https://manuscripts.thewalters.org/viewer.php?id=W.441
Digitization status: Digitized
Date: 1465-1535
Language(s): Latin
Use:
Country of production: Belgium
City or region of production: Bruges or Ghent
Illumination contents: Warming before the Fire, Chopping wood, Making charcoal, Shepherds, Boating party with musician and lovers, Falconing, Reaping, Harvesting wheat, Harvesting vines, Plowing, Slaughtering an ox, Bleeding a pig, Annunciation, Philip of France before Pope Boniface, The Last Supper, Visitation, Nativity, Annunciation to the Shepherds, Adoration of the Magi, Presentation in the Temple, Massacre of the Innocents, Pentecost, Five wounds of Christ, Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, Man of Sorrows and Arma Christi, Infant Christ surrounded by saints, Christ in Gethsemane upheld by angel, Entombment, Assumption of the Virgin, The Virgin enthroned
Text contents: Calendar, Liturgy of Easter, Prayers of Pope Boniface VI to recite for indulgence at the elevation of the Host, Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas on the Eucharist, Hours of the Passion, Mass of the Five Wounds, The Passion of Christ according to John, Fifteen Prayers of St. Bridget, Office of All Saints, Office of the Body of Christ, Mass of the Body of Christ, Hours of the Virgin for Saturday, Mass of the Virgin
Hours intercalated?:
Personalization:
Scribe: Unknown
Illuminator: William Caleb Wing
Patron: Unknown
Materials: Thin, well-prepared parchment
Binding original?: No
Binding description: Nineteenth-century purple velvet binding by Léon Gruel (his bookplate number 1397); nineteenth-century metal clasp with allegorical figures
Folio height (in centimeters): 17.5
Folio width (in centimeters): 12
