Holding institution title: W.99 Book of Hours, Latin (1400-1425, Flanders)
Holding institution classification: Book of Hours
Holding institution location: Baltimore, MD
URL: https://thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W99/description.html
URL2: https://manuscripts.thewalters.org/viewer.php?id=W.99
Digitization status: Digitized
Date: 1400-1425
Language(s): Latin, French
Use: Soissons
Country of production: France
City or region of production: Northeastern France
Illumination contents: Annunciation, Visitation, Adoration of the Magi, Presentation in the Temple, Coronation of the Virgin, Christ in Majesty, Office of the Dead, Seated Virgin and Child with Owner Portrait
Text contents: Calendar, Gospel Sequences, Hours of the Virgin, Penitential Psalms, Litany, Petitions, Collects, Office of the Dead, Hours of the Cross, Verse Prayer to the Virgin, Two Prayers to the Virgin, Suffrages
Hours intercalated?:
Personalization: Owner portrait (male) portrayed kneeling before Virgin and Child enthroned on f. 157r accompanying a verse prayer to the Virgin
Scribe: Unknown
Illuminator: Unknown
Patron: Potential first male owner illuminated on f. 157r
Materials: Parchment
Binding original?: No
Binding description: Eighteenth-century, France, golden brown leather with gilt foliate tooling around outer edges of boards, on spine, and on turn-ins; spine inscribed in gold with “Heures Manuscrite”; blue silk ribbon bookmark
Folio height (in centimeters): 17.3
Folio width (in centimeters): 12
