Holding institution title: W.918, Book of Hours in Dutch, Dutch; Flemish (1470 CE, Zwolle, Netherlands)
Holding institution classification: Book of Hours
Holding institution location: Baltimore, MD
URL: https://thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W918/description.html
URL2: https://manuscripts.thewalters.org/viewer.php?id=W.918
Digitization status: Digitized
Date: 1470
Language(s): Flemish
Use: Utrecht
Country of production: Netherlands
City or region of production: Zwolle
Illumination contents: Annunciation, Apocalyptic Virgin and Child in initial H, Man of Sorrows with Arma Christi in initial H, Trinity enthroned in initial H, Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane, Christ blessing in initial M, Last Judgment, King David praying in initial H, Harrowing of Hell, Two souls praying in purgatory in initial M
Text contents: Calendar, Hours of the Virgin, Long Hours of the Cross, Long Hours of the Holy Spirit, Hours of the Eternal Wisdom, Penitential Psalms, Litany, Office of the Dead, Prayer for Communion, Prayer for After Communion, Prayer and Suffrage to Mary, Prayer and Suffrage to one’s Guardian Angel, Prayer and Suffrage to St. Barbara, Prayer and Suffrage to St. Erasmus
Hours intercalated?:
Personalization:
Scribe: students at the school of the Brethren of the Common Life in Zwolle
Illuminator: Masters of the Zwolle Bible
Patron: “Sarijs group” of the Brethren of the Common Life
Materials: Thin to medium-weight, cream-colored parchment
Binding original?: No
Binding description: Late seventeenth-century Dutch binding; cream- colored vellum over pasteboard, gold-tooled; outer frame of double gold fillets enclosing an inner frame of the same, with canted gold crowns at the outside of each of the four corners (possibly bound in Amsterdam, ca. 1695 in the workshop of Albert Magnus; a virtually identical binding reproduced in Foot, Eloquent Witnesses); sewn on five raised bands; spine gold-tooled in six panels; edges speckled red
Folio height (in centimeters): 14.4
Folio width (in centimeters): 9.8
