Walters Ms. W.165, Loftie Hours Calendar Short Hours of the Cross Hours of the Virgin Seven Penitential Psalms and litany Prayer for the dead Three prayers to the Virgin Two prayers to Christ Prayer to the face of Christ Book of Hours Prayer to the Five Wounds of Christ Prayer to the Holy Cross Prayer to Christ Suffrages for saints Luke's account of the Incarnation Office of the Dead artist Masters of the Delft Grisailles Principal cataloger Marrow, James Cataloger Devine, Alex Editor Herbert, Lynley Editor Noel, William Copy editor Bockrath, Diane Contributor Bockrath, Diane Contributor Dutschke, Consuelo Contributor Emery, Doug Contributor Noel, William Contributor Tabritha, Ariel Contributor Toth, Michael B. Contributor Valle, Chiara Conservator Owen, Linda Conservator Quandt, Abigail The Walters Art Museum

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 This mid-fifteenth-century illuminated Book of Hours is written entirely in Dutch on fine parchment and is remarkable for its eighteen grisaille miniatures. This technique, wherein the figures are modeled primarily in a gray wash, became a favorite in the Netherlands. The hand behind the miniatures in this manuscript has been identified with a group of artists known as the Masters of the Delft Grisailles. The manuscript has been grouped with more than a dozen related works, including New York, Morgan Ms. M.349; London, Victoria and Albert Geo. Reid Ms. 32; Leiden, BPL Ms. 224; Brussels, BR Ms. 21696; Antwerp, Plantin Moretus Ms. 49; and The Hague, KB Ms. 74 G 35. The manuscript is comprised of 152 folios and is almost completely intact, lacking only two miniatures. It retains its original brown leather binding decorated with mythological beasts and a now illegible inscription. The calendar is for the Use of Utrecht, which helps localize its original ownership, as might a mostly erased ownership inscription that has been partially recovered. Good impressions of two circular pilgrim badges, now removed, are visible on fol. 112v. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.165 The primary language in this manuscript is Dutch; Flemish. 1r - 152r Book of Hours 1r - 12v Calendar Januarius Use of Utrecht; about half full; graded red and black 13v - 31r Short Hours of the Cross Dit is tcorte cruus getide O Heer du salste opdoen mine lippen 32v - 78v Hours of the Virgin Here du sulste vp doen mine lippen 79v - 95v Seven Penitential Psalms and litany Dit sijn die vii Spalmen Here in dynre uerboghenheit en straffe 96r - 96r Prayer for the dead Dit ghebet leestmen voir alle zielen Weest ghegruet alle ghelovighe zielen 96v - 99r Three prayers to the Virgin Dit is een goet ghebet van onser Vrouwen Heilighe Vrouwe, Gods moeder, ontfaet mijn (fol. 96v); O alre heilichste, o alre suetste, oalre ontfermhertichste (fol. 97v); God gruet u coninghinne der hemelen (fol. 98v) 100v - 106v Two prayers to Christ Almachtighe scepper alre dinghen (fol. 101r); Ic danck dij lieve here dattu dijn martelie (fol. 106r) 107v - 109v Prayer to the face of Christ Veronica God gruet u heilich aenschijn Gods ons verlossers 110v - 112r Prayer to the Five Wounds of Christ Weest ghegruet heilighe Vijf Wonden mijns heren 113v - 114v Prayer to the Holy Cross O gloriose Cruus, bloeyende groen hout vol alre genaden 114v - 115v Prayer to Christ [H]eere Jhu Xpe die te compleet This prayer is a later addition to the manuscript, written on blank folios in the sixteenth century 116v - 128v Suffrages for saints Een goet ghebet van s' Anthoniis Anthonius heilighe vrient Gods die menich Suffrages for SS. Anthony (fol. 117r-v), John the Baptist (fol. 119r-v), Sebastian (fols. 121r-122r), Catherine (fol. 124r-v), Agnes (fol. 126r-v), and Barbara (fol. 128r-v) 128v - 130r Luke's account of the Incarnation In dese seste maent wert die ingel Gabriel Dutch translation of Luke 1:26-38, added to blank folios in the sixteenth century 130v - 152r Office of the Dead Dit is die Vigelie in Duutsche Mi hebben ombevanghen Three-lesson version of the Office of the Dead

Thin to medium-weight, clean white vellum, well surfaced on both sides with very few hair follicles showing; miniatures on heavier parchment

 Foliation: i+152+i14.5 9.5 7.6 5.3 Foliation in pencil in upper right corners of rectos

i, 1(8,-1,2), 2(6), 3(10,-1,9), 4(10,-4,8), 5(6,-1,5), 6(6), 7-11(8), 12(8,-8), 13(8), 14(6), 15(8,-8), 16(12,-5,9,12), 17(10,-6,8,10), 18(10,-6,8,10) 19(8,-7), 20-21(8), i None None Quires begin on fols. 1(1), 7(2), 13(3), 21(4), 29(5), 33(6), 39(7), 47(8), 55(9), 63(10), 71(11), 79(12), 86(13), 94(14), 100(15), 107(16), 116(17), 123(18), 130(19), 137(20), 145(21); full-page miniatures on singletons; lacking full-page miniatures before fols. 16r and 18r (as shown by offsets); two other miniatures possibly misbound: Man of Sorrows (fol. 79v) may have been intended for or originally placed facing the prayer to Christ (fol. 101r) and Last Judgment (fol. 100v) may have been intended for or originally placed facing the Seven Penitential Psalms and the litany (fol. 80r)

 Ruled in brown with single vertical and double horizontal bounding lines, full across Written in Gothic bookhand; one hand responsible for the majority of text; a different, less professional hand responsible for added prayers in the same script on fols. 114v-115v and 128v-130r Written in Dutch textualis script by a different, later hand than the rest of the manuscript, likely the same hand that added the prayer on fols. 128v-130r Written in Dutch textualis by a different, later hand than the rest of the manuscript, likely the same hand that added the prayer on fol. 115r-v Full-page miniatures of the Passion cycle on fols. 13v, 20v, 23v, 26v, and 29v; missing miniatures before prime (fol. 16r) and terce (fol. 18r) Full-page miniature on fol. 32v Full-page miniature on fol. 79v Decorated initial on fol. 96v Full-page miniature on fol. 100v Full-page miniature on fol. 107v Full-page grisaille miniatures throughout; baguette along the left side of the text column, with extensions, present on most folios commencing major new texts; ordinary leaves with decorated initials (4 to 5 lines), done in gold on red and blue cusped fields with white tracery and/or blue with white tracery on cusped gold fields, enclosing painted foliage and flowers; ordinary initials with extensions from the initial into the upper or left margin; capitals stroked with red; red rubrics; alternating red and blue initials throughout (1 to 2 lines) Full page miniature on fol. 110v Full-page miniature on fol. 113v Full-page miniatures accompanying the text for each saint on fols. 116v, 118v, 120v, 123v, 125v, and 127v; impressions of pilgrim badges, now removed, slightly visible on fol. 122v Full-page miniature on fol. 130v Arrest of Christ Short Hours of the Cross: matins Full-page miniature Christ carrying the Cross Short Hours of the Cross: sext Full-page miniature Crucifixion Short Hours of the Cross: none Full-page miniature Deposition from the Cross Short Hours of the Cross: vespers Full-page miniature Entombment of Christ Short Hours of the Cross: compline Full-page miniature Madonna and Child enthroned Hours of the Virgin Full-page miniature Man of Sorrows in the tomb with the instruments of the Passion Seven Penitential Psalms Full-page miniature This miniature may originally have been placed facing the prayer to Christ on fol. 101r. Last Judgment Prayers to the limbs of Christ Full-page miniature This miniature may originally have been placed facing the Seven Penitential Psalms and litany on fol. 80r. Veronica with the sudarium Prayer to the face of Christ Full-page miniature Five Wounds of Christ Prayer to the Five Wounds of Christ Full-page miniature Holy Cross with symbols of the four Evangelists Prayer to the Holy Cross Full-page miniature St. Anthony Suffrage Full-page miniature St. John the Baptist Suffrage Full-page miniature St. Sebastian Suffrage Full-page miniature St. Catherine Suffrage Full-page miniature St. Agnes Suffrage Full-page miniature St. Barbara Suffrage Full-page miniature Funeral service Office of the Dead Full-page miniature

Probably fifteenth-century; worn brown calf over boards, panel-stamped in blind; frame of double fillets enclosing two rectangular panel stamps, each 5.0 x 7.1 cm, of two files of three mythological beasts and grotesques, surrounded by an inscription in Gothic script (inscription illegible and beasts not identifiable because of wear to the binding); sewn on four raised bands, rebacked; post-medieval brass catch and clasp; all edges gilt

 Middle of the 15th century CE Netherlands Late fifteenth-century ownership inscription of Margriete Rogm[arie?]: Desen boeck hoert toe (margriete rogm[arie?] wonende te bruessel int spe[..]sen hof); translated: This book belongs to Margriete rogm[arie?] who lives in the spe[..]sen hof in Brussels; inscription partially erased but partly legible under ultraviolet light (the latter portion indicated by round parenthesis); transliteration and translation by Marrow (fol. 152r) Rev. W. J. Loftie (1839-1911) Leon Gruel, no. 1164 (bookplate, front pastedown) Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired from Gruel prior to 1931 Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest Relevant Works Cockerell, Sydney Carlye. Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts. London: Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1908, no. 243, pl. 149. Byvanck, Alexander Willem, and Godefridus Johannes Hoogewerf. La miniature hollandaise dans les manuscrits des 14e, 15e et 16e siècles. The Hague: Nijhoff, 1922-26, p. 24, no. 45, pl. 13. Da Costa Greene, Belle, and Meta P. Harrsen. The Pierpont Morgan Library, Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts Held at the New York Public Library. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1934, no. 102. De Ricci, Seymour. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935, p. 787, no. 192. Miner, Dorothy. "Dutch Illuminated Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery." Connoisseur Yearbook (1954-55): 75-76. Marrow, James. "A Book of Hours from the Circle of the Master of the Berlin Passion: Notes on the Relationship between Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Illumination and Printmaking in the Rhenish Lowlands." Art Bulletin 60 (1978): 609, no. 62, pl. 46 (fol. 23v). Marrow, James. Passion Iconography in Northern European Art of the Late Middle Ages and Early Renaissance: A Study of the Transformation of Sacred Metaphor into Descriptive Narrative. Ars Neerlandica. Vol. 1. Kortrijk, Belgium: Van Ghemmert, 1979, p. 225, no. 8b. Farquhar, James Douglas. "Manuscript Production and Evidence for Localizing and Dating Fifteenth-Century Books of Hours: Walters Ms. 239." Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 45 (1987): 44-102, fig. 56 (fol. 116v). Marrow, James H., Henri L. M. Defoer, Anne S. Korteweg, and Wilhelmina C.M. Wüstefeld. The Golden Age of Dutch Manuscript Painting. New York: George Braziller, 1990, pp. 188-189, no. 52. 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 Liturgical Devotional Scriptural Theological Legal Historical Scientific Scientific -- Medical Literary -- Prose Literary -- Poetry Philosophical Astrological Sufi English Book Christian Codex Illumination Manuscript Miniature Walters Art Museum Dutch Devotion Book of Hours Netherlands Flemish Original binding Binding Grisaille 15th century Gradual