Walters Ms. W.229, Book of Hours Calendar Hours of the Cross Hours of the Holy Spirit Mass of the Virgin, Gospel sequences, and prayers Hours of the Virgin Seven Penitential Psalms Litany, petitions, and collects Office of the Dead Book of Hours artist Willem Vrelant circle Principal cataloger Randall, Lilian M.C. Cataloger Ransom, Allison Editor Herbert, Lynley Copy editor Dibble, Charles Contributor Emery, Doug Contributor Herbold, Rebekah Contributor Noel, William Contributor Ransom, Allison 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. 1470 in Bruges by a follower of Willem Vrelant. The manuscript contains eleven extant large miniatures and one small miniature, which are representative of the standard style established by Willem Vrelant. Collects following the Office of the Dead are for a mother, father, deceased male, and a female suppliant, which offers insight into the book's use. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.229 The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. 1r - 107v Book of Hours artist 1r - 6v Calendar Januarius habet dies. xxxi. luna. xxx. Calendar less than half full; graded in red and black; contents suggest Bruges; saints of note include Bathildis (Jan. 31), Basil (Jun. 14), Eligius (Jun. 25), Anne (Jul. 24, "matris marie"), Agapitus (Aug. 17, usually Aug. 18), Aegydius (Sept. 1), Remigius and Bavo (Oct. 1), Donatian (Oct. 14), Theodore (Nov. 10) 7r - 10v Hours of the Cross Incipiunt hore de sancta cruce Domine labia mea 11r - 15v Hours of the Holy Spirit Hore de sancto spiritu ad matutinas Domine labia mea Folio from vespers in Office of the Dead included after fol. 13 16r - 31v Mass of the Virgin, Gospel sequences, and prayers ... dei et vos orare pro me peccatore Mass of the Virgin begins imperfectly; fols. 16r-20v: Mass of the Virgin; fols. 20v-25v: Gospel Sequence; fols. 25v-31v: Two prayers to the Virgin; fols. 25v-29v: Obsecro te; fols. 29v-31v: O intemerata 32r - 76r Hours of the Virgin Incipiunt hore beate marie virginis Domine labia mea Headings of canonical hours start at fol. 42r 77r - 87v Seven Penitential Psalms Incipiunt septem psalmi penitenciales Domine ne in furore 87v - 94v Litany, petitions, and collects Kyrieleison Composite, incomplete list of confessors and lacking virgins after fol. 89v; fols. 87v-89v: litany, including sixteen apostles from Peter to Mark; nineteen martyrs, including Lupus, Amantius, Donatus and Blasius; nine doctores, including seven popes: Remegius and Vedastus; six remaining confessors, including Leonard, Bernard, Francis, Eligius, Aegydius and Dominic; fols. 90r-92v: petitions; 92v-94v: nine collects 14r - 14v 95r - 107r Office of the Dead ...reges terre quia audierunt omnia verba oris tue Short version; Office of the Dead vespers begins imperfectly; image with opening text missing, and following the folio from Vespers misbound after fol. 13r; fols. 96v-97r: three collects after Vespers, for mother, father and deceased male signified by "N" for the name

Lightweight, fairly well prepared and selected; flyleaves modern woven paper

 Foliation: ii+107+ii17.0 11.7 9.5 6.0 Modern pencil foliation, upper right corners rectos

Quire 1: 6 (fols. 1-6); Quire 2: 8, with eighth folio misbound, moved from quite 13 (fols. 7-15); Quire 3: 8, with first folio removed (fols. 16-22); Quires 4-9: 8 (fols. 23-70); Quire 10: 6 (fols. 71-76); Quire 11: 8 (fols. 77-84); Quire 12: 8, with sixth folio cancelled (fols. 85-91); Quire 13: 8, with fourth folio removed, fifth folio misbound in quire 2 (fols. 92-97); Quire 13: 10 (fols. 98-107) None None In quire 2 the 8th folio is misbound after fol. 13, and would have originally been the 5th folio in quire 13

 Ruled in light red ink; layout does not apply to calender; written area 6.2 x 11.4 cm; 4 columns of 17 lines Textura Large miniature fol. 7r Large miniature fol. 11r Small miniature fol. 25v Large miniatures fols. 32r, 42r, 53r, 57r, 60v, 63v, 67r and 72v Large miniature fol. 77r Large miniature with rubric and incipit missing after fol. 94 Eleven extant large miniatures, one extant small miniature (two missing); foliate borders around miniatures only; large decorated initials at major text openings accompanying miniatures (4 lines); small decorated initials at secondary text divisions and at "K L" in calendar (2 lines); small flourished initials in versals in alternating blue and gold (1 line); foliate line fillers in alternating red and blue; rubrics in red; text in dark brown ink Crucifixion Hours of the Cross Large miniature Pentecost Hours of the Holy Spirit Large miniature Pietá Obsecro te Small miniature Annunciation Hours of the Virgin: Matins Large miniature Visitation Hours of the Virgin: Lauds Large miniature Nativity/Adoration Hours of the Virgin: Prime Large miniature Annunciation to the Shepherds Hours of the Virgin: Terce Large miniature Adoration of the Magi Hours of the Virgin: Sext Large miniature Presentation in the Temple Hours of the Virgin: None Large miniature Massacre of the Innocents Hours of the Virgin: Vespers Large miniature Flight into Egypt Hours of the Virgin: Compline Large miniature Last Judgment Seven Penitential Psalms Large miniature

Red velvet, early twentieth century, Belgium (?); parchment bands resewn, rounded spine; endbands include edge-bead around cord; copper clasp on center of upper board fore-edge; page edges are yellow-tinted

 Ca. 1470 CE Bruges Created c. 1470 in Bruges by follower of Willem Vrelant; prayers suggest both male and female suppliants, fols. 96v-97v Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired 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. 796, cat. no. 249. 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. 419, fig. 27 (fol. 77r) Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 1, Belgium, 1250-1530. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1997; pp. 331-334, cat. no. 266. 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 Ornament Walters Art Museum Flanders 15th century Devotion