Book of Hours

Accession number: 
MS W.3
Title: 
Book of Hours
Created: 
Bruges, Belgium, ca. 1440
Binding: 
French 17th-century calf, gold tooled, two clasps; restored.
Credit: 
Gift of Julia Parker Wightman, April, 1993.
Description: 
211 leaves (1 column, 15 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 160 x 128 mm
Provenance: 
Julia Parker Wightman; given in April, 1993.
Notes: 

Ms. book of hours, use of Rome (Hours of the Virgin), calendar for Bruges; written and illuminated in Bruges, Belgium, ca. 1440.
Decoration: 31 full-page miniatures with illuminated borders, and corresponding illuminated borders on facing pages.
Artist: Gold Scrolls Group.

Script: 
textura
Language: 
Latin and French
Century: 
Classification: