Holding institution title: W.534, Book of Hours, Greek, Ancient (to 1453) (1440-1460 CE, Eastern Mediterranean)
Holding institution classification: Book of Hours
Holding institution location: Baltimore, MD
URL: https://thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W534/description.html
URL2: https://manuscripts.thewalters.org/viewer.php?id=W.534
Digitization status: Digitized
Date: 1415-1485
Language(s): Ancient Greek
Use:
Country of production: Eastern Mediterranean
City or region of production: Crete?
Illumination contents: Israelite women dancing, Moses praying, The Prophet Habakkuk, The Prophet Isaiah, Jonah Praying, The Three Children in the fiery furnace, The Three Children in the fiery furnace, The Virgin Mary praying, Zechariah, King David praying, Pentecost, King David penitent, Crucifixion, Lamentation, King David praying, King David praying, King David praying
Text contents: Matins, Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Typika, Refectory, Vespers, Compline, Nocturns, Saturday Nocturns, Canon at the Separation of the Soul from the Body
Hours intercalated?:
Personalization:
Scribe: Unknown
Illuminator: Unknown
Patron: Unknown
Materials: Medium-weight parchment
Binding original?: No
Binding description: Greek, ca. sixteenth-seventeenth century; green patterned silk (now very worn and soiled) over flush-grooved wooden boards; paper pastedowns (probably added later); raised endbands; flat spine; traces of clasps on the back cover
Folio height (in centimeters): 9.2
Folio width (in centimeters): 7.3
