Walters Book of Hours W.173

W.173 Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, USA)

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Walters Book of Hours W.173

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Alternative Titles: Orationes in Laudem Francisci
Walters Stundenbuch W.173
Type: Manuscript on parchment
Size / Format: 214 pages / 25.7 × 17.2 cm
Origin: Belgium
Date: Ca. 1440–1450
Epochs: Late Middle Ages Onwards
Style: Renaissance
Genre: Private Devotion Books
Language: Latin
Script: Textura
Illustrations: 17 miniatures, 9 of which are full-page and 8 three-quarter-page, 8 historiated, 15 ornamental and numerous smaller decorated initials, 32 inhabited full borders and 108 smaller decorated borders
Content: Calendar, Gospel sequences, Hours of the Cross, Hours of the Holy Spirit, Hours of the Virgin, suffrages, Penitential Psalms, litany, prayers
Artist / School: Masters of the Gold Scrolls
Previous Owners: Jean-Baptiste Verdussen
Alfred Werlé
Henry Walters

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#1 Orationes in Laudem Francisci

Imago – Rimini, 2025

Publisher: Imago – Rimini, 2025

Limited Edition: 99 copies

Binding: Replica of the original binding: Brown full-leather binding with delicate gold tooling on the covers and the spine

Commentary: 1 volume (152 pp) by Carla Rossi
Language: Italian

1 volume: Exact reproduction of the original document (extent, color and size) Reproduction of the entire original document as detailed as possible (scope, format, colors). The binding may not correspond to the original or current document binding.

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