[Horae Beatae Virginis Mariae]
Contributors: McGuckin, Alexander, 1971- binder
Published: 1430
Place of publication: Belgium
Language: lat
Number of pages: 70
Subjects: Books of hours; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Liturgies.; Heure antiqu; Livre d'heures; Arenberg Book of Hours
Work titles: Book of hours
Notes: Ms. codex.

Flemish illuminated ms. Contains six full-page miniatures, seventeen large illuminated initials besides a considerable number of smaller initials in gold and colour.

Title supplied by cataloguer.

Collation: Parchment ; fol. ii (i is pastedown) + 70 + ii (ii is pastedown) ; Collation: 1[superscript 6] 2 [superscript 12] (-7,10) 3 [superscript 12] (-7,12) 4 [superscript 8] 5 [superscript 10] 6 [superscript 10] 7 [superscript 10] 8 [superscript 4] 9 [superscript 6] (-1)

Layout: Written in a single column of 20 lines; frame-ruled.

Script: Written in a gothic book hand.

Decoration: Calendar; six full-page miniatures, all but one facing a recto of the text, framed with similar borders and a large folate initial ; altogether seventeen (4- to 6-line) illuminated initials; smaller (1- and 2-line) illuminated and pen-flourished initials throughout.

Binding: 18th century brown leather with gold ornament on spine with title: Heure Antiqu.

Origin: Made for use in the region of West Flanders.

Latin.

University of Alberta copy housed in clamshell box and slipcase by Alex McGuckin.

University of Alberta copy from the library of the Dukes of Arenberg.