Walters Ms. W.179, Book of Hours Calendar Hours of the Cross Hours of the Holy Spirit Mass of the Virgin Hours of the Virgin Advent Office of the Virgin Seven Penitential Psalms Litany, petitions, and collects Office of the Dead Added devotional sequence Book of Hours artist Orbit of Willem Vrelant Principal cataloger Randall, Lilian M.C. Cataloger Herbert, Lynley Editor Herbert, Lynley Copy editor Dibble, Charles Contributor Emery, Doug Contributor Herbold, Rebekah Contributor Noel, William Contributor Schuele, Allyson Contributor Shartrand, Emily Contributor Tabritha, Ariel Contributor Toth, Michael B. Contributor Wiegand, Kimber Conservator Owen, Linda Conservator Quandt, Abigail The Walters Art Museum

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 This Book of Hours was created ca.1460-70 in the Bruges region by artists influenced by the famous illuminator Willem Vrelant. Its fifteen surviving miniatures have been heavily repainted, as have many of the borders, and Lillian Randall has suggested this campaign of refurbishment was likely requested by a later owner who may be depicted in the fully redone Last Judgment image (fol. 124v). The limited number of figures, simplification of drapery folds, and avoidance of painting hands where possible show the streamlining used by workshops in this period, which were generating large numbers of similar books (see, for example, also W.177, W.180, W.181, and W.774). Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.179 The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. 1r - 213v Book of Hours 1r - 12v Calendar Januarius xxxi luna xxx. One-third filled, graded in red and brown ink; contains both South Netherlandish and North French saints; saints of note include Gudula (Jan. 9), Amandus and Vedast (Feb. 6), Walburga (Feb. 23), Augustine (Feb. 28, translation), Quintinus (Mar. 30), Sixtus I (Apr. 9, usually Apr. 6), Sophia (May 15), Bernardinus of Siena (May 20, canonized 1450), Basil (June 14), Marcellus (Sept. 3), Remigius and Bavo (Oct. 1), Callistus (Oct. 13), Donatian (Oct. 14), Paulinus (Dec. 19) 13v - 20v Hours of the Cross Officium sancte. Crucis. Domine labia mea aperies 21v - 27v Hours of the Holy Spirit Officium de sanctu spiritu Domine labia mea aperies 28v - 35v Mass of the Virgin Introitus misse beate virginis marie. Salve sancta parens enixa puerpera regem 36v - 112v Hours of the Virgin Officium beate marie virginis secundum usum Romanum. Ad matutinas. Domine labia mea aperies Use of Rome 113v - 123v Advent Office of the Virgin Officium beate marie virginis quod dicitur per totum adventum ad vesperas. Deus in adjutorium meum intende 124v - 138r Seven Penitential Psalms Septem psalmi penitentiales antiphona Ne reminisearis. Domine ne in furore 138r - 148v Litany, petitions, and collects Kyrieleyson Fols. 138r-141r: Litany, with saints mostly for Use of Rome: sixteen apostles, evangelists, and disciples from Peter to Mark; eleven martyrs; seven popes/confessors/doctors; eight monks/hermits/priests/levites, which includes Alexius; ten virgins and widows, including Mary Magdalene, Agnes, and Clare; fols. 141r-144r: petitions and invocations; fols. 144r-145r: imprecations; fols. 145r-148v: ten collects 149v - 201v Office of the Dead Officium mortuorum antiphona. Placebo. Dilexi quoniam exaudiet Dominus Use of Rome 202v - 210v Added devotional sequence De sancta veronica. oratio. Salve sancta facies nostri redemptoris Added early, very close in style of decoration and script, but poorer quality parchment than rest of manuscript; fols. 202v-204r: Suffrage to the Holy Face; fols. 204v-205v: Five verses of St. Gregory; fols. 206r-210v: Prayer to the Virgin (Obsecro te)

Thin to medium-weight, well-finished parchment

 Foliation: iv+213+iv9.5 6.8 5.4 3.6 Modern pencil foliation, upper right corners, rectos

Quire 1: 12 (fols. 1-12); Quire 2: 8, with first and ninth folios added (fols. 13-22); Quire 3: 8, with sixth folio added (fols. 23-31); Quire 4: 8, with fifth folio added (fols. 32-40); Quires 5-6: 8 (fols. 41-56); Quire 7: 8, with second folio added (fols. 57-65); Quire 8: 10, with first folio cancelled and seventh folio added (fols. 66-75); Quire 9: 6, with third folio added (76-82); Quire 10:, with second and eighth folios added (fols. 83-92); Quire 11: 8, with fourth folio added (fols. 93-101); Quire 12: 8, with fifth folio added (fols. 102-110); Quire 13: 8, with third folio added (fols. 111-119); Quire 14: 8, with fifth folio added (fols. 120-128); Quires 15-23: 8 (fols. 129-201); Quire 24: 2, with third folio added (fols. 202-204); Quire 25: 10, with tenth folio cancelled (205-213) None None Miniatures have been inserted

 Ruled in beige ink; layout does not apply to calendar: written space 3.4 x 5.7 cm, 3 columns, 17 lines Italianate gotica rotunda Full-page miniature fol. 13v Full-page miniature fol. 21v Full-page miniature fol. 28v Eight full-page miniatures, fols. 36v, 58v, 72v, 78v, 84v, 90v, 96v, and 106v Full-page miniature fol. 113v Full-page miniature fol. 124v Full-page miniature fol. 149v Full-page miniature fol. 202v (heavily repainted) Fifteen extant full-page inserted miniatures (figures heavily repainted); foliate borders match across openings around full-page miniatures and facing texts; large decorated initials in gold, blue, rose, and green begin major text divisions (5 lines) and similar initials without green at secondary text divisions and for KL in calendar (2-3 lines); small flourished initials in alternating blue and gold with red and black penwork for versals (1 line); line fillers in litany in gold and blue geometric patterns; rubrics in red; text in brown ink Crucifixion Hours of the Cross Full-page miniature Pentecost Hours of the Holy Spirit Full-page miniature Virgin and Child Mass of the Virgin Full-page miniature Annunciation Hours of the Virgin: Matins Full-page miniature Visitation Hours of the Virgin: Lauds Full-page miniature Nativity and adoration Hours of the Virgin: Prime Full-page miniature Annunciation to the shepherds Hours of the Virgin: Terce Full-page miniature Adoration of the Magi Hours of the Virgin: Sext Full-page miniature Presentation in the temple Hours of the Virgin: None Full-page miniature Massacre of an innocent Hours of the Virgin: Vespers Full-page miniature Flight into Egypt Hours of the Virgin: Compline Full-page miniature Coronation of the Virgin Advent Office of the Virgin Full-page miniature Last Judgment Seven Penitential Psalms Full-page miniature Raising of Lazarus Office of the Dead Full-page miniature Salvator mundi Suffrage to the Holy Face Full-page miniature

Partially rebound by Walters conservation staff ca. 1996 in brown goatskin leather, sewing new endbands but retaining the nineteenth-century sewing of the textblock, as well as reattaching the pastedowns and facing endleaves, which were hand-decorated with a pattern in yellow and dark blue; page edges gilt; binding at time of purchase by Walters (also imaged here) was early nineteenth-century dark green velvet, probably Italian; resewn on three recessed cords; white and yellow silk endbands; inscription on spine in gold read: "OFFICIUM M.S. IN MEMB"

 Ca. 1460-1470 CE Bruges Created in Bruges ca. 1460-70 by workshop influenced by Willem Vrelant Edouard Rahir, Paris bookseller, firm of Damascène Morgand, ca. 1900, his inventory number "26005" on front flyleaf i, v "Bt of Morgand [Paris] July 1901 for 2000 [francs]" inscribed on front flyleaf i, v Peter Marié, New York; lot number "561" of his sale in 1903 inscribed on front flyleaf i, v George Richmond, New York bookseller, 1903 (?), likely his mark in pencil "efx" on back flyleaf iv, r Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased between 1903 and 1931 Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest Relevant Works De Ricci, Seymour, and W. J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935; p. 812, cat. no. 344. Bowles, Edmund A. "A Checklist of Musical Instruments in Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscripts at the Walters Art Gallery." Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 32, no. 4 (1976): 719-726; p. 720. Owens, M.B. "Musical Subjects in the Illumination of Books of Hours from Fifteenth-Century France and Flanders." Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1987; p. 391. Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 3, Belgium, 1250-1530. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1997; pp. 295-298, cat. no. 259. Kren, Thomas. "Anonymous: Book of Hours, Use of Rome." In Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe. Edited by Thomas Kren and Scot McKendrick, 486-487. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003; p. 487, ref. under cat. no. 161. 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 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 Judaism Talmud Collection of Sermons Notable Notable binding Liturgical Devotional Scriptural Theological Legal Historical Scientific Scientific -- Medical Literary -- Prose Literary -- Poetry Philosophical Astrological Sufi English Book of Hours Christian Flemish Book Codex Miniature Painting Walters Art Museum Flanders 15th century Devotion Illumination Manuscript