Walters Ms. W.111, Franciscan Liturgical Psalter Calendar Breviary texts Prayers Ferial Psalter Collect Psalter Principal cataloger Herbert, Lynley Principal cataloger Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934 Editor Dibble, Charles Editor Herbert, Lynley Editor Noel, William Copy editor Dibble, Charles Contributor Bockrath, Diane Contributor Davis, Lisa Fagin Contributor Dutschke, Consuelo Contributor Emery, Doug Contributor Hamburger, Jeffrey Contributor Noel, William Contributor Tabritha, Ariel Contributor Toth, Michael B. Conservator Owen, Linda Conservator Quandt, Abigail The Walters Art Museum

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 This Psalter was made for Franciscan use in Cologne in the late thirteenth century. It was owned in the late fifteenth or sixteenth century by the Augustinian nuns of St. Cecilia in Cologne, who added the calendar, the Breviary texts, prayers, and the Collect at the end. The manuscript is written in Latin and in the Ripuarisch dialect spoken in the Cologne region. The style of the historiated initials, as well as that of the bar borders topped with grotesques, closely resembles the style of Walters Ms. W.41 and of the two graduals made for the Franciscans of Cologne in 1299 by Johannes von Valkenburg (Cologne, Diözesanbibliothek, Ms. 1B, and Bonn, Universitätsbibliothek, Ms. 384). It is a well-preserved example of High Gothic illumination in Cologne. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.111 The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is German. 1r - 261v Psalter Original text of manuscript consisted only of Ferial Psalter (fols. 24r-260v); rest of manuscript added in late fifteenth or sixteenth century 1r - 7v Calendar Text added late fifteenth or sixteenth century; for use of Cologne; incomplete: begins February 13; calendar half full, graded in red, blue, and black; use of Cologne: translation of Evergilisus (28 March); Evergisilus (24 Oct.) and Evergilisus octave (Oct. 30); Cecilia (Nov. 21) Cecilia octave (Nov. 26) dedication of the church (Sept. 22); Koull-Binsfelt family obits added in seventeenth century (fol. 6r-7r) 8r - 19v Breviary texts In adventu Domini hymnus. In primo nocturno. Verbum supernum prodiens a Patre Text added in late fifteenth or sixteenth century 20v - 23v Prayers Christus resurgens ex mortuis iam non moritur Text added late fifteenth or sixteenth century; rubric on fol. 21r begins "item per felici statu archiepiscopi coloniensis" 24r - 260v Ferial Psalter Domine labia mea aperies Ferial Psalter for Franciscan use, with a suffrage to St. Francis on fol. 61v; incomplete: Psalm 1 (between fols. 25 and 26) and the beginning of Psalm 109 (between fols. 204 and 205) missing; historiated initials at Psalms 26, 38, 51, 52, 68, 80, 97 261r - 261v Collect Pietate tua quaesumus Domine nostrorum Text added late fifteenth or sixteenth century

Medium-weight, cream-colored parchment; laid paper flyleaves

 Foliation: ii+261+ii12.9 9.7 7.9 5.5 Modern pencil foliation, upper right, rectos

ii, 1(8,-1), 2(8), 3(8), 4(22,-1,2,3,4,7(?)), 5(10), 6(12,-3), 7(10,-2,8), 8(10,-3), 9(10), 10(10), 11(10), 12(12), 13(12,-8), 14(10), 15(10), 16(10), 17(12,-4), 18(10), 19(12,-7), 20(12,-7), 21(10,-1), 22(10), 23(10), 24(10,-4), 25(10), 26(10,-9,10), 27(2,-1), ii Lowercase Roman numerals, first page of quire, lower left corner, rectos None Quires begin on fols. 1(1), 8(2), 16(3), 24(4), 41(5), 51(6), 62(7), 70(8), 79(9), 89(10), 99(11), 109(12), 121(13), 132(14), 142(15), 152(16), 162(17), 173(18), 183(19), 194(20), 205(21), 214(22), 224(23), 234(24), 243(25), 253(26), 261(27). After the back flyleaves there are 5 stubs. Quire 4 is clearly not in its original structure, and it originally consisted of two quires. It is difficult to determine the structure of the quire, which has two centers, between fols. 27v-28r and 33v-34r. The remains of the first part of the quire (of which fols. 24-26 are extant) seem to have been stitched into the second part of the quire.

 Written surface for added texts (fols. 1-23, and 261) is 8.5 x 5.5 cm; brown ink ruling for Psalter text only, ruling not visible for added texts Gothic bookhand (textura) Historiated initials fols. 24r, 69r, 93r, 108v, 13v, 132r, 158r, 178r Eight historiated initials in rose and blue against burnished gold grounds (6 to 8 lines); decorated initials with bar borders in gold on rose and blue grounds with white penwork (2 lines) for psalm incipits; single grotesques on tops of bar borders and initial tails; red or blue capitals begin each sentence; rubrics in red; text in black ink Initial "D" with woman holding an ointment jar Sunday Matins Historiated initial "D," 7 lines Initial "D" with David pointing to his eye before face of God Psalm 26 Historiated initial "D,"7 lines Initial "D" with pilgrim below face of God Psalm 38 Historiated initial "D," 8 lines Initial "Q" with David enthroned with orb and sword Psalm 51 Historiated initial "Q," 6 lines Initial "D" with fool holding a club and eating a loaf of bread Psalm 52 Historiated initial "D," 7 lines Initial "S" with David bathing in the sea and God blessing Psalm 68 Historiated initial "S," 6 lines Initial "E" with David playing bells Psalm 80 Historiated initial "E," 7 lines Initial "C" with two clerics at a lectern Psalm 97 Historiated initial "C," 5 lines

Flemish, sixteenth century, beech boards covered in brown calf leather, blind-tooled Renaissance motifs; corner and edges of binding restored; one sixteenth-century brass clasp remaining; Turk head fore-edge markers made of parchment in red, white, and blue

 Late 13th century CE Cologne, Germany Made for Franciscan use in Cologne, Germany, late thirteenth century; Ripuarisch dialect points to Cologne region Nuns of St. Cecilia in Cologne, late fifteenth or sixteenth century; nuns added fols. 1-23 and 261; Cologne rubric on fol. 21r; suffrage to St. Cecilia on fol. 23v, and calendar has rubricated feast of St. Cecilia on fol. 6v: summum festum Susanna Koull, seventeenth century; her name on front pastedown and Koull-Binsfelt family obits in calendar on fols. 6r-7r Henry Walters, Baltimore, before 1931, obtained from L.S. Olschki no. 24; bookplate on front pastedown Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest Relevant Works De Ricci, Seymour. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1935, vol. 1, p. 772, cat. no. 95 Oliver, Judith. "The Mosan Origin of Johannes von Valkenburg." Wallraf Richartz Jahrbuch 40 (1978): pp. 23-37, pp. 27-30 (fol. 24r) Oliver, Judith. "The French Gothic Style in Cologne: Manuscripts before Johannes von Valkenburg." Vol. 1, Miscellanea Neerlandica: Opstellen voor Dr. Jan Deschamps ter Gelegenheid van Zijn Zeventigste Verjaardag, edited by Elly Cokx-Indestege and Frans Hendrickx. Leuven: E. Peeters, 1987, pp. 381-396, p. 394. Oliver, Judith. Gothic Manuscript Illumination in the Diocese of Liège (ca. 1250-1330). Vol. 1. Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters, 1988, p. 176 Art Medicine Museum Poetry Script Muhammad, the Prophet Kashmiri Horses Walters Art Museum Document Astrology Devotion History Legal Literature -- Poetry Literature -- Prose Liturgy Philosophy Science Science -- Medicine Scripture Sufism Theology Mineralogy Logic Geography Geomancy Cosmology Cartography Fortune-telling Koran Qur`an Firman Palimpsest Prayer Bible Gospels Psalter Missal Lectionary Book of Hours Antiphonary Homilary Processional Horologion Breviary Hymnal Chronicle Maghreb Sub-Saharan (West) Africa Turkey Afghanistan Central Asia Egypt England India Iran Iraq Pakistan Germany France Austria Netherlands Ethiopia Armenia Flanders Greece Mamluk Mughal Ottoman Ottonian Armenian Byzantine Abbasid Qajar Rajput Christian Arabic Austrian Dutch Egyptian Fatimid German Indian Islamic Persian Safavid Timurid Turkish Umayyad English French Flemish Ethiopian Carolingian Calligraphy Colophon Headpiece Illumination Illustration Medallion Miniature Ornament Painting Early Abbasid script Ragini Romanesque Gothic Watermark Grotesques Historiated initial Inhabited initial White-vine lettering Textura Batarda Humanistic Uncial Accordion book Album Book Codex Manuscript Heraldry Saint's Life Drawing Grisaille Binding New Abbasid style Musical notation Russia Romania Charter Russian Genealogy Mass book Prayer book Gospel Lectionary Psalter-Hours Treatise Grammar Gloss Pontifical Private devotional text Gradual Protective scroll Scroll 10th century 11th century 12th century 13th century 14th century 15th century 16th century 17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century 8th century 9th century Block book Caroline minuscule Central Arab lands (Near East) Chart English secretary hand Kufic Gothic book hand Original binding Treasure binding Gospel Book Spanish Spain Italian Italy Coptic Scrapbook American United States Maryland Historical Society Friendship book Friendship Biography Liturgical Devotional Scriptural Theological Legal Historical Scientific Scientific -- Medical Literary -- Prose Literary -- Poetry Philosophical Astrological Sufi English Christian Codex Illumination Manuscript German Psalter Germany Devotion Scripture Binding Book Grotesques Historiated initial Walters Art Museum 13th century 15th century 16th century