Walters Ms. W.215, Book of Hours with Premonstratensian connections Calendar Devotional sequence Hours of the Virgin, with suffrages Office of the Dead Hours of the Holy Spirit Hours of the Cross Seven Penitential Psalms Litany, petitions and collects Devotional sequence Gospel sequences Devotional sequence Book of Hours Principal cataloger Randall, Lilian M.C. Cataloger Ransom, Allison Editor Herbert, Lynley Copy editor Dibble, Charles Contributor Emery, Doug Contributor Mergen, Christopher Contributor Noel, William 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. 1400-1415 in either Flanders or Artois. There are twenty-three miniatures, six historiated initials, and drolleries, the latter found mainly on pages with historiated initials. The Hours of the Virgin are connected to the collegiate church of St. Pierre in Lille, as evinced by the hymn "Ueni Creator" at Lauds and None, as well as the antiphon "Cum iocunditate" at Compline. The book also contains an Office of the Dead that corresponds to Premostratensian use, and a Prayer to Christ that contains an introductory attribution to Friar Bertrant, priest and cardinal at an unidentified foundation dedicated to St. Cecilia. Additionally, the Suffrages are interpolated throughout the Hours of the Virgin from Lauds to Compline. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.215 The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. 1r - 181v Book of Hours 1r - 13v Calendar Januarius habet dies xxxi luna xxx Calendar partially filled and ends imperfectly; contains Egyptian verses on first line for each month; contents suggest Western Flanders and Western France; saints of note include: Julianus (Jan. 8, preceded on same line by Lucianus 'presbiteri' Beauvais), Launomar (Jan. 19), Julianus (Jan. 27), Hilary (Jan. 28), Gumgaldi (Mar. 2), Easter (Mar. 28), Florentius (May 2, Nantes), Majolus (May 11), Austregesil (May 20), Gervasius (May 28), Simplicianus (May 30, Poitiers, usually May 31), Achatius (Jun. 22), Cyprian (Jul. 14, Poitiers), Genesius (Aug. 25), Paul (Aug. 31), Eulalia (Oct. 10), Lupus (Oct. 17), Martin (Oct. 24, abbot), Vincent (Oct. 27), Maclovius (Nov. 15), Risaurus and Maurus (Dec. 1), Benedict (Dec. 4, abbot, translation) 14r - 19v Devotional sequence Pater noster qui es in celis Fols. 14r-16r: Our Father, Ave Maria, Creeds, four prayers; fols. 16r-17r: Five Joys of the Virgin, prayer, closing invocations; fols. 17r-18r: Prayer for salvation; fol. 19r-v: Communion prayer 20r - 73v Hours of the Virgin, with suffrages Domine labia mea Suffrages dispersed within, beginning at end of Lauds and ending at Compline; fols. 20r-38v: Matins through Lauds; fols. 39r-46r: Lauds, including on fol. 39r: suffrage to John the Baptist; fol. 40r: suffrage to Saint Nicholas; fol. 40v: suffrage to Mary Magdalene; fol. 41v: suffrage to Twelve Apostles; fols. 46v-50r: Prime: fol. 46v: suffrage to All Angels; fol. 47v: suffrage to St. John the Evangelist; fols. 50v-54r: Terce: fol. 50v: suffrage to Holy Sacrament; fol. 51v: suffrage to St. Andrew; fols. 54v-58r: Sext: fol. 54v: suffrage to the Cross; fol. 55v: suffrage to Martyrs; fols. 58v-65r: None: fol. 58v: suffrage to Saints Peter and Paul; fols. 59v: suffrage to St. Catherine; fols. 65v-72r: Vespers: fol. 65v: suffrage to St. Stephen; fol. 66v: suffrage to St. Christopher; fol. 67r: suffrage to St. Margaret; fol. 68r: suffrage to Confessors; fol. 68v: suffrage to Virgins; fols. 72v-73v: Compline: fol. 72v: suffrage to St. Sebastian; fol. 73v: suffrage to All Saints 74r - 101r Office of the Dead Incipiunt vigilie pro defunctis. antiphona. psalmus Placebo domino. Dilexi quoniam Fols. 74r-101v: Office of the Dead; fols. 100r-101r: four collects 102r - 119v Hours of the Holy Spirit Domine labia mea 120r - 125v Hours of the Cross Domine labia mea 126r - 136r Seven Penitential Psalms Domine ne in furore 136r - 139r Litany, petitions and collects Kyrieleyson Fols. 136r-138r: Litany, particular to Northern France, including eleven apostles from Peter to Matthew; eleven martyrs, including Cornelius, Cyprian, Sebastian, George, Christopher, Valentine, Cosmas and Eustace; eight confessors, including Gaugeric, Amandus and Vedast; eleven virgins, including Mary Magdalene, Mary Egyptian, Catherine, Lucy, Barbara, Margaret, Elizabeth, Agatha, Agnes, Dorothy and Martha; fols. 138r-139r: petitions, followed by invocations; fol. 139r: two collects, headed "Deus cui proprium est miserere simul" 140r - 157v Devotional sequence Miserere nobis domine miserere nobis Fols. 140r-141v: two prayers; fols. 141v-142v: Passion according to John, excerpts from John 19.1-35; fols. 142v-148r: communion prayers, headed "Deus qui manus tuas et pedes tuos et totum corpus tuum"; fols. 148r-153v: three prayers to the Virgin and God; fol. 153v: two prayers, to Christ as savior and to Christ's blood; fols. 153v-157v: prayer to gardian angel and creed 157v - 163r Gospel sequences Fols. 157v-159r: Luke 1.26-38; fols. 159r-160v: Matthew 2.1-12; fols. 160v-161v: Mark 16.14-20; fols. 161v-163r: John 1.1-14 164r - 181v Devotional sequence Oracio de beata maria Salve regina misericordie vita dulcedo et spes nostra Fols. 164r-172r: four prayers to the virgin; fols. 172r-178r: prayer to Christ, attributed to Friar Bertrand, priest at St. Cecilia; fols. 178r-181v: prayer to God

Thin to medium weight, well selected and prepared

 Foliation: iv+181+iii13.5 9.8 7.0 5.4 Two sets of pencil foliation in upper right corners, rectos: older, larger foliation below modern, smaller foliation (used here)

Quire 1: 4 (fols. 1-4); Quire 2: 10, with ninth and tenth folios missing (fols. 5-12); Quire 3: 1, probably singleton (fol. 13); Quire 4: 6 (fols. 14-19); Quires 5-6: 8 (fols. 20-35); Quire 7: 8, with fourth and fifth folios missing (fols. 36-41); Quires 8-12: (fols. 42-81); Quire 13: 8, with fourth and fifth folios missing (fols. 82-87); Quire 14: 8 (fols. 88-95); Quire 15: 6 (fols. 96-101); Quire 16: 8 (102-109); Quire 17: 10 (fols. 110-119); Quire 18: 6 (fols. 120-125); Quire 19: 8 (fols. 126-133); Quire 20: 6 (fols. 134-139); Quires 21-23: 8 (fols. 140-163); Quire 24: 6 (fols. 164- 169); Quire 25: 8 (fols. 170-177); Quire 26: 4 (fols. 178-181) Mostly cropped and in black ink

Layout does not apply to calendar: written space 5.5 x 7.4 cm; 5 columns of 16-18 lines; text including calendar ruled in light brown ink Written in textura Decorated initial and border with drolleries on fol. 14r Miniatures on fols. 20r, 39r, 40v, 46v, 50v, 51v, 54v, 58v, 65v, 67r, 68v and 72v Historiated initial on fol. 74r Historiated initial on fol. 102r Miniature on fol. 120r, drolleries on fols. 120r and 124r Historiated initial fol. 126r Miniatures on fols. 157v, 159r, 160v and 161v Historiated initial on fol. 164r Six historiated initials (5-12 lines); twenty-three miniatures (6-10 lines); decorated illuminated initials at major text openings (3-8 lines); flourished initials at secondary text divisions and at "K L" in calendar (3 lines); borders on pages with miniatures, as well as historiated and decorated initials; drolleries appear with historiated initials; occasional line fillers throughout; rubrics in red, text in brown ink Initial "D" with Crowned Virgin and Child Hours of the Virgin: Matins Historiated initial "D"; full page St. John Baptist Hours of the Virgin: Lauds Miniature St. Nicholas Hours of the Virgin: Lauds Miniature St. Mary Magdalene Hours of the Virgin: Lauds Miniature Twelve Apostles Hours of the Virgin: Lauds Miniature Seven Archangels Hours of the Virgin: Prime Miniature St. John the Evangelist Hours of the Virgin: Prime Miniature Priest at Mass Hours of the Virgin: Terce Miniature St. Andrew Hours of the Virgin: Terce Miniature Crucifixion Hours of the Virgin: Sext Miniature Seven martyr saints Hours of the Virgin: Sext Miniature SS. Peter and Paul Hours of the Virgin: None Miniature St. Catherine Hours of the Virgin: None Miniature St. Stephen martyred Hours of the Virgin: Vespers Miniature St. Christopher carrying Christ-Child Hours of the Virgin: Vespers Miniature St. Margaret issuing from dragon Hours of the Virgin: Vespers Miniature Seven confessor saints Hours of the Virgin: Vespers Miniature Ten virgin saints Hours of the Virgin: Vespers Miniature St. Sebastian martyred Hours of the Virgin: Compline Miniature All Saints (thirteen) Hours of the Virgin: Compline Miniature Initial "D" with funeral service Office of the Dead Historiated initial "D," 9 lines Initial "D" with the Trinity Hours of the Holy Spirit Historiated initial "D," 8 lines Initial "D" with Christ carrying cross Hours of the Cross Historiated initial "D," 9 lines Initial "D" with Christ as judge Seven Penitential Psalms Historiated initial "D," 10 lines Ox symbol of Luke Gospel Sequences: Luke Miniature Angel symbol of Matthew Gospel sequences: Matthew Miniature Lion symbol of Mark Gospel sequences: Mark Miniature Eagle symbol of John Gospel sequences: John Miniature Initial "S" with Pieta Devotional sequence: Four prayers to the Virgin Historiated initial "S," 9 lines

Early eighteenth century re-binding from France; dark red leather boards with gold-tooled edges; flat spine with five raised bands and gilt title "HEVRES/ ANTIQV"; gilt name "REBOVCH" at tail of spine suggests it was rebound by early eighteenth century owner Fr. Claude Reboucher, who inscribed his name and the date 1724 on front flyleaf iv, verso; gilt edges

 Ca. 1400-1415 CE Flanders or Artois Created ca. 1400-1415, either Flanders or Artois, for liturgical use associated with St.-Pierre in Lille as well as the Premonstratensian Order "Capitaine Frouard," 1585, inscription on front flyleaf iv "Sigisbert Nicolas Charrouyer" seventeenth century inscription on fol. 1r "Fr. Claude Reboucher... Curia senator," 1724, his inscription on front flyleaf iv, verso Léon Gruel, Paris bookbinder and bookseller, before 1903; Gruel and Engelmann bookplate inscribed "No. 86" on front pastedown Henry Walters, Baltimore, June 1903, purchased from Gruel 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. 787, cat. no. 188. Meiss, M., Painting in Florence and Siena after the Black Death, Princeton, 1951, p. 142 Walters Art Gallery. The International Style: The Arts in Europe Around 1400. Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, 1962. p. 66, cat. no. 62, plate XLVI Owens, M.B., "Musical Subjects in the Illumination of Books of Hours from Fifteenth-Century France and Flanders," PhD diss., University of Chicago, 1987, p. 47, 189 Wieck, Roger S. Time Sanctified. The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life. New York: George Braziller. 1988. p. 114, 208-209, cat. no. 81, fig. 91, fol. 65v 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, 1989; pp. 91-97, cat. no. 227; figs. 437, 438. Ottosen, K. The Responsories and Versicale of the Latin Office of the Dead. 1993. Gil, Marc, and Ludovic Nys. Saint-Omer gothique: Les arts figuratifs à Saint-Omer à la fin du Moyen Âge, 1250-1550: Peinture, vitrail, sculpture, arts du livre. Valenciennes: Presses Universitaires de Valenciennes, 2004; p. 76. Marrow, James H., Brigitte Dekeyzer, and Jan Van Der Stock. Pictorial Invention in the Netherlandish Manuscript Illumination of the Late Middle Ages: The Play of Illusion and Meaning. Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2005; pp. 7, 12, 35 (n. 25). Ottosen, Knud. The Responsories and Versicles of the Latin Office of the Dead. Norderstedt, Germany: Books on Demand, 2007; pp. viii, 176, 345. Bousmanne, Bernard, and Thierry Delcourt (Eds.). Miniatures flamandes 1404-1482. Belgium: Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, 2011, p. 22, illust. no. 4, fol. 120r 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 Biography Judaism Talmud 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 Walters Art Museum Flanders 15th century Devotion