Holding institution title: W.87, Incomplete Book of Hours, Latin (1310-1320 CE, Flanders (Ghent?))
Holding institution classification: Incomplete Book of Hours
Holding institution location: Baltimore, MD
URL: https://thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W87/description.html
URL2: https://manuscripts.thewalters.org/viewer.php?id=W.87
Digitization status: Digitized
Date: 1310-1320
Language(s): Latin, French
Use: Unknown
Country of production: Belgium
City or region of production: Ghent?
Illumination contents: The Holy Face, Pelican wounding chest to feed young
Text contents: Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead, Added Communion Prayer (fourteenth century)
Hours intercalated?:
Personalization:
Scribe: Unknown
Illuminator: Unknown
Patron: Unknown
Materials: Parchment
Binding original?: No
Binding description: Sixteenth-century brown calf binding; rebacked in the nineteenth-twentieth century by Léon Gruel; front and back boards are stamped with framing fillets; two vertical bands at the center are inhabited by six animals within vine spirals; on front and back boards an inscription around the central panels writes “DEUS DET / NOBIS SUA[M] PACE[M] ET / POST MORTE[M] / VITA[M] ETERNA[M] AMEN,” spine rounded and backed; yellow formerly on the edges has been scraped; a comparable binding layout with inscription and panels with pairs of animals is signed by the Flemish binder Iohannes Bosscaert on a book printed in 1526 (Weale 1894, no. 416)
Folio height (in centimeters): 10.2
Folio width (in centimeters): 6.7
