Walters Ms. W.225, Book of Hours Calendar Gospel Sequences Hours of the Virgin Hours of the Cross Hours of the Holy Spirit Seven Penitential Psalms, litany, and collects Office of the Dead Fifteen Joys of the Virgin and Seven Requests to Our Lord Book of Hours Principal cataloger Randall, Lilian M.C. Cataloger Han, Yuna Editor Herbert, Lynley Contributor Emery, Doug Contributor Han, Yuna Contributor Tabritha, Ariel Contributor Wiegand, Kimber Conservator Quandt, Abigail The Walters Art Museum

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 This Book of Hours was completed for the Use of Rouen in the last quarter of the fifteenth century. The original female owner is depicted in a donor portrait kneeling at the right of the Pietà on the last illuminated page of the book (fol. 114r). Marked prominence is given to this female worshiper as her scale exceeds that of the Virgin as well as SS. John the Evangelist and Mary Magdalene. The Pentecost miniature on fol. 74r exemplifies the interest during that period in replacing the traditional central perspective with a diagonally conceived composition. This off-center orientation highlighting St. Peter rather than the Virgin was a popular theme in contemporary Books of Hours from Rouen. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.225 The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is French, Middle (ca.1400-1600). 1r - 124v Book of Hours Use of Rouen; text mostly in Latin except calendar, Fifteen Joys of the Virgin, and Seven Requests to Our Lord in French 4r - 15v Calendar Calendar in French, one half to three-fourths filled; use of Rouen; major feasts in gold and others in bright blue and mauve; feasts of note include: Severinus (Jan. 8), Paul apostle (Jan. 25, Conversion), Anne (Jan. 30, Translation of relics), Severus (Feb. 1), Ansbert (Feb. 9), Adrianus (Mar. 4), Constantine of Cornwall (Mar. 9), Richard (Apr. 3, English bishop, Cistercian), Hugh (Apr. 9), Constantine (June 15, bishop of Beauvais), Gervasius (June 19), Martialis (July 3, Rouen), Tranfiguration of Christ (Aug. 6, 'Saint sauueur'), Taurinus (Aug. 11), Dionysius (Sept. 9), Mellonius (Oct. 22), Romanus (Oct. 23); Benignus (Nov. 3, regularly Nov. 1), 'O sapiencia' (Dec. 16), Gatianus (Dec. 18), Theodosia (Dec. 22), Ursinus (Dec. 30) 16r - 31v Gospel Sequences Secundum iohannem In principio erat verbum Fols. 16r-20v: John 1.1-14; fols. 20v-26v: Luke 1.26-38, Matthew 2.1-12, and Mark 16.14-20; two prayers to the Virgin, 'Oracio de beata maria' (fol. 20v) and 'Alia oracio' (fol. 23v); fols. 27r-30v: verse prayer to the Virgin in French, 12 twelve-line stanzas; blank fols. 31r-v 32r - 70v Hours of the Virgin Domine labia mea aperies Use of Rouen; fols. 48r-51v: ten Suffrages appended to Lauds, to Holy Spirit, Sts. Michael, John the Baptist, Peter, Paul, James the Greater, Sebastian, Nicolas, Romanus (Rouen), Mary Magdalene, Catherine 71r - 73v Hours of the Cross Domine labia mea 74r - 76v Hours of the Holy Spirit Domine labia mea Blank fol. 76v 77r - 90v Seven Penitential Psalms, litany, and collects Domine ne in furore tuo Fols. 77r-86r: Seven Penitential Psalms; fols. 86r-90v: Litany, fifteen martyrs including Adrian, seventeen confessors including Rouen saints, e.g. Romanus and Severus, twelve virgins including Mary Magdalene and Austreberta; fols. 88v-90r: Petitions, cues to prayers, Ps. 69; fols. 90r-v: three collects 91r - 113v Office of the Dead Dilexi quoniam exaudiet Use of Rouen 114r - 124v Fifteen Joys of the Virgin and Seven Requests to Our Lord Doulce dame de misericorde mere de pitie fontaine de tous biens Fols. 114r-119r: Fifteen Joys of the Virgin; fols. 119r-121v: Seven Requests to Our Lord; blank fols. 122r-124v

Medium-weight parchment, well-prepared; flyleaves are modern paper

 Foliation: ii+124+ii16.2 11.2 8.6 5.5 Modern pencil foliation, upper right corners, rectos

Quire 1: 2, third folio tipped in (fols. 1-3); Quire 2: 12 (fols. 4-15); Quire 3: 8 (fols. 16-23); Quire 4-5: 4 (fols. 24-31); Quire 6-9: 8 (fols. 32-63); Quire 10: 10 (fols. 64-73); Quire 11: 4, first folio canceled (fols. 74-76); Quire 12-16: 8 (fols. 77-116); Quire 17: 6 (fols. 117-122); Quire 18: 2 (fols. 123-124) Interleaving before full-page miniatures; one sheet left intact between fol. 15v and fol. 16r, otherwise, only some traces are visible

 Layout does not apply to calendar; written surface: 5.8 cm wide by 8.5 cm high; four columns of 17 lines Labors of the months and zodiac appear at the center in arched panels at fore-edge, border ornament above and below Miniature less than full-page fol. 16r Two full-page miniatures fols. 32r and 52r; six miniatures less than full-page fols. 40r, 56r, 59r, 61v, 64v, and 67r Full-page miniature fol. 71r Full-page miniature fol. 74r Full-page miniature fol. 77r Full-page miniature fol. 91r Miniature less than full-page fol. 114r Six full-page miniatures; eight miniatures less than full-page with figural scenes in lower borders; twenty-four calendar illuminations with labors and zodiac symbols for each month (17 lines); decorated initials throughout (1-4 lines); rectangular borders filled with flowers, fruits, and acanthus at sides of text divisions; borders filling area beside illuminations in calendar and around smaller miniatures at text divisions; line fillers throughout; rubrics in tan-rose; text in black ink Two-headed man (Janus) feasting Calendar illustration Aquarius Calendar illustration Man warming himself by fire Calendar illustration Pisces Calendar illustration Two man pruning and attaching vines to treliis Calendar illustration Aries Calendar illustration Couple seated in garden Calendar illustration Taurus Calendar illustration Couple astride a horse Calendar illustration Gemini Calendar illustration Two men scything Calendar illustration Leo Calendar illustration

Mistakenly depicted on fol. 9v instead of on fol. 10v

 Man reaping with sickle and man bundling sheaves Calendar illustration Cancer Calendar illustration

Mistakenly depicted on fol. 10v instead of 9v

 Two men threshing in barn Calendar illustration Virgo Calendar illustration Man trampling grapes Calendar illustration Libra Calendar illustration Man sowing and woman with distaff Calendar illustration Scorpio Calendar illustration Man knocking down acorns for five pigs Calendar illustration Sagittarius Calendar illustration Man slaughtering pig Calendar illustration Capricorn Calendar illustration St. John Evangelist on Patmos; panel at base: SS. Matthew, Luke, and Mark writing on scrolls Miniature less than full-page with figural scene in lower border Annunciation Full-page miniature Visitation; panel at base: Virgin walking on road Miniature less than full-page with figural scene in lower border Nativity, Adoration of Shepherds Full-page minaiture Annunciation to shepherds and shepherdess; panel at base: Dance of shepherds and shepherdess Miniature less than full-page with figural scene in lower border Adoration of Magi; panel at base: Three Magi before Herod Miniature less than full-page with figural scene in lower border Presentation in Temple; panel at base: Sacrifice of Isaac Miniature less than full-page with figural scene in lower border Flight into Egypt; panel at base: Miracle of Cornfield Miniature less than full-page with figural scene in lower border Coronation of Virgin; panel at base: Assumption of Virgin Miniature less than full-page with figural scene in lower border Crucifixion Full-page miniature Pentecost Full-page miniature King David harping Full-page miniature Job on dungheap Full-page miniature Virgin and Child enthroned; panel at base: Pietà with kneeling female donor Miniature less than full-page with figural scene in lower border

Rebound in Italy in the last quarter of the nineteenth century; dark blue morocco; sewn on four recessed cords; inscription on spine in gold read: "UFFIZIO / FRANCESE / MINIATO"

 Last quarter of the 15th century CE Rouen, France Created for the use of Rouen ca. 1480-90; illuminated in Rouen under influence of Jean Bourdichon of Tours; first owner female, depicted on fol. 114r Owned by someone named Maucourt at Montigny in 1725; recorded on fol. 124v: "MAVCOVRT / 1725 / amontigny" Leo S. Olschki, bookseller, Florence, late nineteenth or early twentieth century; an 'x' and '566' inscribed on front flyleaf i, v; note below by Olschki concerning decoration; date penciled over partially erased earlier notation Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Olschki before 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. 800, cat. no. 278 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. 721, 722 and 726 Stones, A. and J. Steyvaert. Medieval Illumination, Glass and Sculpture in Minnesota Collection, exh. cat. Minneapolis: University Gallery, University of Minnesota, 1978, p. 92, figs. 69 and 70 (fols. 32 and 74) Thomson, James C. Music through the Renaissance. Dubuque, Iowa: W.C. Brown Co., 1984, p. 231, fig. 7.9 (f. 56r, border scene) Hindman, Sandra L. and Michael Heinlen. Important Western Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts and Illuminated Leaves. Akron, Ohio: B.P. Ferrini, 1987, p. 155 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. 417, fig. 26 (fol. 77r) Sinclair, Keith Val, and Jean Sonet. Prières en ancien français: Additions et corrections aux articles 1-2374 du Répertoire de Sonet, Supplément. Townsville: James Cook University of North Queensland, 1987, pp. 43 and 72 Burin, E. "Manuscript Illumination in Lyons c. 1450-1530." Ph.D. diss, Cambridge University, 1989, p. 29 Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 2. France, 1420-1540. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1989; pp. 316-321, cat. no. 167 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 Textbook Scholarly compendium Ancient Greece Ancient Rome Literature Japanese Japan Liturgical Devotional Scriptural Theological Legal Historical Scientific Scientific -- Medical Literary -- Prose Literary -- Poetry Philosophical Astrological Sufi English Book of Hours French Book Codex Illumination Manuscript Miniature Walters Art Museum France 15th century Devotion Christian Painting