Walters Ms. W.181, Book of Hours Calendar Hours of the Cross Hours of the Holy Spirit Mass of the Virgin Suffrage to the Holy Face Hours of the Virgin Advent Office of the Virgin Seven Penitential Psalms Litany, petitions, and collects Office of the Dead Book of Hours Principal cataloger Randall, Lilian M.C. Cataloger Shartrand, Emily Editor Herbert, Lynley Copy editor Dibble, Charles Contributor Brown, Emily Contributor Emery, Doug Contributor Herbold, Rebekah Contributor Noel, William Contributor Schuele, Allyson 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 illuminated between 1460 and 1470 under the influence of Willem Vrelant in Bruges. The manuscript contains seven extant inserted full-page miniatures (eight others are now missing), and their accompanying foliate borders teem with charming grotesques, many of which are holding and reading books. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.181 The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. 1r - 159v Book of Hours 1r - 12v Calendar Januarius xxxi. Calendar one quarter to half-full; graded in red and dark brown; for Use of Rome with some Flemish and northern French saints; saints of note include Bavo (Jan. 14), Maurus (Jan. 16), Anthony (Jan. 18, normally on the 17th), Prisca (Jan. 19), Vincent (Jan. 23), Conversion of St. Paul (Jan. 26), Albinus (Mar. 1), Ouintianus (Apr. 1), Anne (Oct. 27), Lambert (Nov. 17) Remigius (Dec. 1), Francis (Dec. 4), and Sixtus (Dec. 7) 13v - 19v Hours of the Cross Incipit officium sancte crucis. Ad matutinas versus. Domine labia mea 20v - 25v Hours of the Holy Spirit Incipit officium de sancto spiritu. Ad matutinas. versus Domine labia mea Final "Amen" enlarged and centered several lines below end of text 26v - 32v Mass of the Virgin Incipit missa beate marie virginis. Introit. Salve sancta parens enixa puerpera 33r - 34v Suffrage to the Holy Face De sancta veronica. Oratio. Salve sancta facies nostri redemptoris 35r - 91v Hours of the Virgin Incipit officium beate marie virginis secundum consuetudinem Romane curie. V. Domine labia mea Use of Rome 92r - 101v Advent Office of the Virgin Incipit officium beate marie virginis quod dicitur in adventu Deus in adiuitorum meum Additional heading appears on bottom of fol. 91v reading "Sequitur adventus domini" 102r - 122r Seven Penitential Psalms Incipit .vii psalmi penitenciales. p. Domine ne in furore tuo 112r - 119v Litany, petitions, and collects Litanie maior Kyrieleyson Fols. 112r-114v: Litany: Use of Rome, some regional saints; includes sixteen apostles from Peter to Mark; fifteen martyrs, twelve doctors and confessors, including Francis, Leonard, and Bernard; fifteen virgins, widows, and continentes including Clare, Ursula, Elizabeth, and Martha; fols. 114v-117r: Petitions, invocations, and Psalm 69; fols. 117r-119r: Nine collects 120v - 159v Office of the Dead Incipiunt vigilie mortuorum Ad vesperas antiphona Placebo: Dilexi quoniam exaudiet For Use of Rome; four collects at the end of Vespers, two of which cite "N" for name of deceased male or female, fol. 126r-v; fols. 127-134 and 134-141 were reversed during rebinding

Well-selected and prepared light-weight parchment, with heavier parchment for inserted miniatures

 Foliation: 159+i9.4 6.7 4.8 2.8 4.8 3.0

Quires 1-2: 6 (fols. 1-12); Quire 3: 8, with first and eighth folios added (fols. 13-22); Quire 4: 8, with ninth folio added (fols. 23-31); Quire 5: 4, with second folio removed and fifth folios added, second folio later removed (fols. 32-34); Quires 6-7: 8 (fols. 35-50); Quire 8: 8, with first folio added and later removed (fols. 51-58); Quire 9: 8, with third and eighth folios added (fols. 59-68); Quire 10: 8, with third and eighth folios added, third folio later removed (fols. 69-77); Quire 11: 8, with third folio added and later removed (fols. 78-85); Quire 12: 8, with second folio added and later removed (fols. 86-93); Quire 13: 9 (fols. 94-101); Quire 14: 8, first folio added and later removed (fols. 102-109); Quire 15: 8 (fols. 110-117); Quire 16: 8, with third folio added (fols. 118-126); Quires 117-120: 8 (fols. 127-157); Quire 21: 2 (fols. 158-159)

On some pages the text begins above the first ruled line and others below. Calendar and text both in Italianate gotica rotunda, punctus and punctus elevatus marks for pauses Full-page miniature, fol. 13v Full-page miniature, fol. 20v Full-page miniature, fol. 26v Three full-page miniatures, fols. 61v, 66v, and 75v; five missing miniatures originally opposite fols. 35, 51, 71, 80, and 87 Full-page miniature, fol. 120v Seven full-page miniatures on versos of inserted folios; decorated illuminated initials, flourished initials, foliate borders inhabited with grotesques surrounding the miniatures; rubrics in red; text in brown ink Crucifixion with SS. Mary Magdalene and Longinus 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 Nativity-Adoration Hours of the Virgin: Prime Full-page miniature Annunciation to the Shepherds Hours of the Virgin: Terce Full-page miniature Circumcision Hours of the Virgin: None Full-page miniature Funeral service Office of the Dead Full-page miniature

Rebound in French or Belgium (?) ca. 1900; dark red velvet; two silver gilt catches and clasps from the seventeenth century, possibly transferred from previous binding

 Ca. 1460-1470 CE Bruges Bruges, ca. 1460-1470, completed under influence of Willem Vrelant Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from unknown source between 1895 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. 813, cat. no. 346. 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; pp. 722, 724, 725. 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. 392. Bousmanne, Bernard. "Prolégomènes à la constitution et à l'interprétation d'un corpus des manuscrits attribués au groupe Vrelant: Un aspect de l'enluminure dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux au XVe siècle." Ph.D. diss., Université Catholique de Louvain, 1994; pp. 24, 214-215. 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. 271-275, cat. no. 253. Bousmanne, Bernard. Item à Guillaume Wyelant aussi enlumineur: Willem Vrelant, un aspect de l'enluminure dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux sous le mécénat des ducs de Bourgogne Philippe le Bon et Charles le Téméraire. Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique. Turnhout: Brepols, 1997; pp. 43, 79, 81, 115, 132, 137, 215 (no. H.VI.25), 358 (n. 85), 377. 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 Flemish Book Illumination Manuscript Miniature Walters Art Museum Flanders 15th century Devotion Codex Grotesques Ornament Christian