Walters Ms. W.190, Book of Hours Calendar Gospel Sequences Hours for each day of the week Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany Devotional Sequence for the Virgin Devotional Sequence Suffrages Prayer on Five Joys of the Virgin Book of Hours Principal cataloger Randall, Lilian M.C. Cataloger Shartrand, Emily Editor Herbert, Lynley Copy editor Wallace, Susan Contributor Emery, Doug Contributor Noel, William Contributor Schuele, Allyson Contributor Tabritha, Ariel Contributor Toth, Michael B. Contributor Valle, Chiara Contributor Wiegand, Kimber Conservator Owen, Linda Conservator Quandt, Abigail The Walters Art Museum

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 Illuminated in the style of the Master of the Black Prayerbook, this manuscript was created ca. 1460-1470. It contains features in the calendar that indicate a destination of Bruges, and aspects of the litany point to the city of Liège. The manuscript is currently misbound, but an attempt has been made to reconstruct the original order of the quires. The full-page miniatures and historiated initials are painted with a mixture of grisaille and colored techniques. There may be a reference to the patron and their family taking communion on fol. 47v. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.190 The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. 1r - 139v Book of Hours Book is misbound, with reconstructed order as follows: fols. 1r-12v: Calendar; fols. 13r-16v: Gospel Sequence; fols. 17r-19v, 20r-22v, 23r-v, 44r-v, 45r-47r, 47v-50r, 50v-51v, 31r-32r, 32v-35r: Hours for Each Day of the Week; fols. 36r-43v, 24r-v: Seven Penitential Psalms; fols. 24v-30v: Litany; fols. 52r-120v: Devotional Sequence to the Virgin; fols. 121r-131r: Devotional Sequence; fols. 131v-139r: Suffrages; fol. 139r-v: Early Added Prayer on Five Joys of the Virgin 1r - 12v Calendar Januarius habet dies xxxi. Luna xxx. Calendar full, graded in red and brown ink; almost synonymous with Bruges calendar; variants are as follows: occasional feasts (e.g., Chrysolius), translation of Augustine, reversed dates of successive feast days (e.g., Ursmar and Peter deacon), identification of Louis as king of France 13r - 16v Gospel Sequences Secundum Johannem Gloria. tibi. domine In principio erat verbum John 1:1-14, Luke 1:26-38, Matthew 2:1-12, Mark 16:14-20 17v - 19v 20r - 22v 44r - 44v 45r - 47r 47v - 50r 50v - 51v 31r - 32r 32v - 35v Hours for each day of the week Hore de dominica de sancta trinitate Domine labia mea Fols. 17r-19v: Sunday Hours of the Trinity, with Communion prayer for Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist; fols. 20r-22v: Monday Hours of the Dead; fol. 23r-v and 44r-v: Tuesday Hours of the Holy Spirit; fols. 45r-47r: Wednesday Hours of All Saints (misbound); fols. 47v-50r: Thursday Hours of the Sacrament; fols. 50v-51v and 31r-32r: Friday Hours of the Cross (misbound); fols. 32v-35r: Saturday Hours of the Virgin; prayer to Christ added on fol. 35r at the end of the text 36r - 43v 24r - 30v Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany Incipiunt septem psalmi penitentiales Domine ne in furore tuo Fols. 36r-43v and 24r-v: Seven Penitential Psalms; fols. 24v-30v: litany; South Netherlandish destination indicated; sixteen apostles and evangelists, from Peter to Thaddeus; thirteen martyrs (eleven single, one pair) including Adrian, Cornelius, George, Victor, Cosmas and Damian, Christopher, Sebastian, Ghislain, Blasius; twelve confessors including Brictus, Augustine, Jerome, Ambrose, Gregory I, Gilbert, Francis, Jodocus, Julian; eleven virgins/widows/"continentes" including Mary Magdalene, Mary Egyptian, Catherine, Agnes, Anne, Apollonia, Gertrude, Elizabeth; fols. 26v-28r: petitions, invocations, cues; fols. 28r-30r: brief prayers, written consecutively, causes and individuals cited include Church, peace, pastor, king, brethren and sisters, faithful traveling on land and sea, persecutors, slanderers, benefactors, the sick, and the faithful dead Due to book having been misbound, rubric and incipit are found on fol. 36r. 52r - 120v Devotional Sequence for the Virgin ...Saluto te beatissime dei genitrix Text begins imperfectly; psalter, prayers, and petitions dedicated to the Virgin; fols. 52v-112v: Psalter of the Virgin, 8-partite, recitation at nocturn on ferial days specified in headings; fols. 114r-119r: Litany of the Virgin; fol.s 117v-119r: Petitions; fols. 119r-120v: Prayer to the Virgin 121r - 139r Devotional Sequence Canticum sancti athanasii Quicunque vult saluus esse Fols. 121r-125v: Athanasian Creed; Prayers to three members of the Trinity, Prayer to Christ; fols. 125v-127r: Five joys of the Virgin, rhyming; Prayer to Christ; fols. 127r-128r: Pre-Communion prayer; fols. 129r-131v: Communion prayers 131v - 139r Suffrages Memoria de sancta cruce Salve tremendum caput Fols. 131v-139: Suffrages, to the Cross, eight male and seven female saints; fols. 131v-132v: Cross, referring to Crown of Thorns, Flagellation, wounds, ending imperfectly; fol. 133r: John the Evangelist, end of text only; fol. 133r: Christopher, rhyming; fol. 133v: Adrian; fol. 134r: Sebastian; fol. 134v: George; fol. 135r: Nicholas; fol. 135v: Anthony; fol. 136r: Julian; fol. 136v: Catherine; fol. 137r: Barbara; fol. 137v: Margaret; fol. 138r: Apollonia; fol. 138v: Agnes; fol. 138v: Elizabeth 139r - 139v Prayer on Five Joys of the Virgin Ave cuius conceptio solempni Added early, prayer on Five Joys of the Virgin consisting of five invocations; fol. 139v: Prayer to God on the Five Joys of the Virgin, Prayer to the Virgin ending imperfectly in same hand as additions on fols. 19v, 35r

Well-selected parchment of light to medium weight; margins were cleaned sometime in the modern era, occasionally causing damage (eg., fol. 48r, initial on line one has almost disappeared)

 Foliation: i+139+i17.5 11.8 10.2 6.1 9.2 5.8 Front and back flyleaves are modern parchment and are bifoliate with pastedowns

As it appears in the current binding: Quires 1-2: 6 (fols. 1-12); Quire 3: 6, with fifth folio cancelled (fols. 13-17); Quire 4: 6 (fols. 18-23); Quire 5: 8, with eighth folio cancelled (fols. 24-30); Quire 6: 4, with first folio cancelled (fols. 31-33); Quire 7: 2 (fols. 34-35); Quires 8-9: 8 (fols. 36-51); Quire 10: 8, with first and eighth folios cancelled (fols. 52-57); Quire 11: 8 (fols. 58-65); Quire 12: 8 (fols. 66-73); Quire 13: 8, with first folio cancelled (fols. 74-80); Quires 14-18: 8 (fols. 81-120); Quire 19: 10, with tenth folio cancelled (fols. 121-129); Quire 20: 6 (fols. 130-135); Quire 21: 4 (fols. 136-139)

Some folios of the calendar have fewer written lines but seem to have been ruled with 20 lines before pages were washed Written in a different hand at a later, yet still early, date Written in littera batarda, pauses marked by punctus elevatus or punctus Full-page miniature on fol. 13r Seven full-page miniatures on fols. 17r, 20r, 23r, 45r, 47v, 50v, and 32v Full-page miniature on fol. 36r Eight historiated initials on fols. 52v, 62v, 67v, 73v, 79v, 84v, 91r, and 96v Decorated initials Decorated initials Nine full-page miniatures with floral borders accompanying them; seven historiated initials; gold, rose, and blue decorated initials for secondary text divisions (2 lines); flourished initials in alternating blue and gold for versals (1 line); rubrics in red; text in black or dark brown ink Four Evangelists and their symbols Gospel Sequence Full-page miniature Trinity Sunday, Trinity Full-page miniature Burial Service Monday, Hours of the Dead Full-page miniature Pentecost Tuesday, Hours of the Holy Spirit Full-page miniature Annunciation Saturday, Hours of the Virgin Full-page miniature King David Penitential Psalms Full-page miniature Christ revered by saints Wednesday, Hours of All Saints Full-page miniature Holy Communion Thursday, Hours of the Sacrament Full-page miniature

Possibly a portrait of the patrons and their family

 Crucifixion Friday, Hours of the Cross Full-page miniature Initial "B" with Moses and the Burning Bush Psalm 1 Historiated initial "B," 6 lines Initial "D" with the Visitation Psalm 26 Historiated initial "D," 7 lines Initial "D" with the Nativity-Adoration Psalm 38 Historiated initial "D," 7 lines Initial "D" with the Annunciation to the Shepherds Psalm 52 Historiated initial "D," 8 lines Initial "S" with the Massacre of the Innocents Psalm 68 Historiated initial "S," 7 lines Initial "E" with the Presentation in the Temple Psalm 80 Historiated initial "E," 7 lines Initial "C" with the Adoration of the Magi Psalm 97 Historiated initial "C," 7 lines Initial "D" with the Flight into Egypt Psalm 109 Historiated initial "D," 7 lines

Bound in France ca. 1900 in dark green velvet, and leather fore-edge tabs added at that time

 Ca. 1460-70 CE Bruges (?) Created ca. 1460-70, calendar indicates Bruges as destination, and litany has features common to Liège; fol. 47v may have portrait of patron and family Effaced monogram on top-right of fol. 1r visible under UV light; lower margin of same page has inscription in brown ink "Ioannes Reitmakers/anno 1663" Léon Gruel, Paris, late nineteenth-early twentieth century; possibly rebound by him; bookplate on upper board inside Henry Walters, Baltimore, likely purchased from Gruel between 1900 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. 794, cat. no. 234. Miner, Dorothy. Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Museum and the Baltimore Museum of Art, 1949; cat. no. 132. 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