Holding institution title: W.764, Vienna book of hours, German, Middle High (ca.1050-1500) (1460-1465 CE, Vienna, Austria)
Holding institution classification: Book of Hours
Holding institution location: Baltimore, MD
URL: https://thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W764/description.html
URL2: https://manuscripts.thewalters.org/viewer.php?id=W.764
Digitization status: Digitized
Date: 1435-1490
Language(s): German, Latin
Use:
Country of production: Austria
City or region of production: Vienna
Illumination contents: Virgin and Child, Christ carrying the Cross, Entombment
Text contents: Calendar, Hours of the Virgin, Hours of the Cross, Vigils of the Holy Spirit, Prayer of the Three Kings, Penitential Psalms, Litany, Prayer to Mary, Prayer to Guardian Angel, Prayer to St. George, Prayer to St. Catherine, Prayer to the Passion of Christ and Good Friday, Prayer to Mary, Prayer for God’s Blessing, Prayers, Added Prayer to St Christopher
Hours intercalated?:
Personalization:
Scribe: Unknown
Illuminator: Master of the Maximilian Schoolbooks
Patron: Prince Maximilian (1459-1519)
Materials: Medium-weight parchment
Binding original?: No
Binding description: Rebound by Abigail Quandt, Walters Art Museum, 1985, with white goatskin over wooden boards and two woven clasps with metal fittings; previous binding eighteenth-century green silk over heavy pasteboard (now housed separately)
Folio height (in centimeters): 16.8
Folio width (in centimeters): 11.8
