Walters Ms. W.184, Book of Hours Added Italian inscription and prayer Calendar Hours of the Cross Hours of the Holy Spirit Mass of the Virgin and Gospel Sequence of John Hours of the Virgin for the use of Rome Prayer to the Virgin Seven Penitential Psalms Litany, petitions, imprecation, and collects Psalter of St. Jerome Office of the Dead Added Latin and Italian litany and prayer Book of Hours artist Willem Vrelant circle Principal cataloger Randall, Lilian M.C. Cataloger Herbert, Lynley Cataloger Ransom, Allison Editor Herbert, Lynley Copy editor Wallace, Susan Contributor Emery, Doug Contributor Herbert, Lynley 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 created ca. 1460-70 CE in Bruges by the circle of Willem Vrelant. It contains six extant full-page miniatures, which were inserted or painted on the versos of folios left blank, with the images on fols. 101v and 120v created by a different artist. A highly embellished upper board was added in Germany in the nineteenth century that contains an ivory Christ nailed to an engraved gilded cross. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.184 The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is Italian. 1r - 143v Book of Hours artist 1v - 2v Added Italian inscription and prayer Inscription (inked out) and prayer in Italian added by seventeenth-century hand 3r - 14v Calendar Januarius. xxxi. Calendar sparsely filled; graded in red and dark brown ink; non-regional dates include Franciscan feasts; saints and feasts of note include Valentine (Jan. 7), Anthony (Jan. 18), Fabian (Jan. 21), Sebastian (Jan. 21), Agnes (Jan. 22), Paul (Jan. 26, conversion), Cornelius (Mar. 31), Felix (May 16), Bernardinus (May 20, "Barnardini"), Anthony of Padua (Jun. 7, "anthonius de padua," Franciscan), Abdon and Sennen (Jul. 31), Remigius (Oct. 1), Francis (Oct. 4), All Saints (Nov. 1, "Festivitas omnium sanctorum"), All Souls (Nov. 2, "Commemoratio animarum," not major feast), and four crowned martyrs (Nov. 8, "sanctorum coronatorum") 15v - 23r Hours of the Cross Incipiunt hore sancte crucis. Ad matutinas. versus. Domine labia mea artist 23v - 29r Hours of the Holy Spirit Incipiunt hore de sancto spiritu. Ad matutinas. versus. Domine labia mea artist 29v - 35v Mass of the Virgin and Gospel Sequence of John Incipit missa beate marie virginis. Introitus. Salve sancta parens enixa puerpera... Fols. 29v-34v: Mass of the Virgin; fols. 34v-35v: John 1:1-14, headed "Initium sancti evangelii secundum iohannem. Gloria tibi domine." artist 36v - 97v Hours of the Virgin for the use of Rome Incipiunt hore beate marie virginis secundum consuetudinem Romane ecclesie. Ad matutinas versus. Domine labia mea Interpolated Advent Office at the end of each canonical hour artist 98r - 101r Prayer to the Virgin Oratio de domina ma. oro. Obsecro te domina mea sancta maria Fol. 100r: dual gender reference to suppliant marked by small "e" added over "o" in "famulo tuo" artist 101v - 112v Seven Penitential Psalms Incipiunt septem psalmi penitentiales antiphona. psalmus. Domine ne in furore artist 112v - 119v Litany, petitions, imprecation, and collects Letanie maior. Kyrieleison Fols. 112v-115v: Litany, with sixteen "apostoli & evangeliste orate pro nobis" and disciples: Peter to Mark; seventeen martyrs, including Cornelius and George; fourteen confessors, monks, and hermits, including Anthony, Nicholas, Benedict, Bernard ("Barnarde"), Dominic, Francis, and Bernardinus of Siena ("B'nardine"); fourteen virgins, widows, and "continentes orate pro nobis," including Mary Magdalene, Mary Egyptian, Anne, Clare, Elizabeth, Ursula, and Martha; fols. 115v-117r: petitions and invocations; fols. 117r-v: Ps. 69, headed "Preces minores"; fols. 117v-118v: Short imprecation, five groups of versicles and responsories; fols. 118v-119r: Seven collects, first five headed "oratio," last two "Alia oratio" artist 120v - 135v Psalter of St. Jerome Incipit psalterium sancti Ieronimi p. Verba mea auribus percipe domine intellige clamorem meum artist 136r - 174r Office of the Dead Incipiunt vigile mortuorum Placebo artist 175r - 177v Added Latin and Italian litany and prayer Litinia della Madona Chirie eleison Added seventeenth century

Thin to medium-weight, well-prepared and selected parchment; pages pressed and flattened during the last binding; modern paper flyleaves

 Foliation: ii+177+ii11.0 8.1 6.9 4.5 Modern pencil foliation, upper right corners rectos

Quire 1: 2 (fols. 1-2); Quires 2-3: 6 (fols. 3-14); Quire 4: 8, with ninth folio added (fols. 15-23); Quire 5: 8 (fols. 24-31); Quire 6: 8, with fifth folio added (fols. 32-40); Quires 7-8: 8 (fols. 41-56); Quire 9: 8, with first folio added (fols. 57-65); Quires 10-13: 8 (fols. 66-97); Quire 14: 4, composite quire, with fourth folio added (fols. 98-101); Quires 15-16: 8 (fols. 102-117); Quire 17: 2 (fols. 118-119); Quire 18: 8, with first folio added (fols. 120-128); Quire 19: 8 (fols. 129-135); Quire 20: 8, with an originally inserted first folio now missing (fols. 136-143); Quires 21-23: 8 (fols. 144-167); Quire 24: 8, with eighth folio missing (fols. 168-174); Quire 25: 2, with third folio added (fols. 175-177) None None Images are on inserted leaves or are on versos of folios left blank

 Layout does not apply to calendar: written surface 4.5 x 7.3 cm, 2 columns, 16 lines Italianate gotica rotunda Sketch in pencil of draped figure (fol. 2v), also likely added in seventeenth century Full-page miniature on fol. 15v Full-page miniature on fol. 23v Full-page miniature on fol. 29v Full-page miniatures on fol. 36v Full-page miniature on fol. 101v Full-page miniature on fol. 120v Six extant full-page miniatures (one missing); large decorated initials (5-6 lines) at major text divisions; smaller decorated initials in gold, rose, and blue at secondary text divisions and for "KL" in calendar (2-3 lines); small initials in same colors for versals (1 line); heavy foliate margins around full-page miniatures and facing opening text, and also present at liturgical divisions (top and bottom margins only); line fillers in blue and rose with gold disks, in litany only; rubrics in red; text in black-brown ink Crucifixion Hours of the Cross Full-page miniature Pentecost Hours of the Holy Spirit Full-page miniature Virgin lactans crowned and serenaded by angels Mass of the Virgin Full-page miniature Annunciation Hours of the Virgin: Matins Full-page miniature King David penitent Seven Penitential Psalms Full-page miniature St. Jerome in penance before crucifix Psalter of St. Jerome Full-page miniature

Rebound in the late nineteenth century in Frankfurt, Germany, by L. Stephanus (signed "L. Stephanus Buchbinder" on leather of bottom turn in on upper board and "Frankfurt a. M." on lower board); sewn on three recessed chords; dark green leather with a Gothic Revival-style engraved gilded metal cross with a carved ivory figure of Christ and with evangelist symbols at ends of the cross arms and various colored cabochons in the upper corners; lower board blind tooled with scrolls inscribed "ihesus" and "maria" in center panel, with pierced gilded corner pieces containing red stones and thin gilded clasps hinged to lower board; page edges painted red and accented with tooled gold pattern including rosettes and fleur-de-lis; white silk ribbon bookmark finished with gold tassel

 Ca. 1460-70 CE Bruges (?) Created ca. 1460-70 for someone with Franciscan sympathies (see calendar); illuminated in the style of Willem Vrelant of Bruges, which suggests the influence of Ghent Associates Italian owner, ca. seventeenth century, evinced by addition of Italian prayer fol. 2r Peter Marié, New York, likely purchased in Germany in August 1891: inscription on flyleaf i, v reads "573/Homburg August 1891/XIV/750 [crossed out]/647/1600 marks"; sticker on same flyleaf indicates he loaned it to Grolier Club in 1892, inscribed "P. Marie/ No. 8 [crossed out]/No. 77" George Richmond, New York, acquired in 1903 from Peter Marié, where it was no. 573 in his sale Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from George Richmond between 1903 and 1931 Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest Relevant Works Exhibition Catalogue: Catalogue of an Exhibition of Illuminated and Painted Manuscripts. Grolier Club. New York, 1892; cat. no. 77. 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. 797, cat. no. 258. Bowles, Edmund A. "A Checklist of Musical Instruments in Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscripts at the Walters Art Gallery." Music Library Association 32 (1976): 719-726; pp. 723, 724. 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. 394, fig. 10. 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. 301-305, cat. no. 261. 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 Illumination Manuscript Miniature Painting Walters Art Museum Flanders 15th century Devotion