Walters Ms. W.262, Book of Hours (for use of Amiens) Calendar Gospel sequences Hours of the Virgin Seven Penitential Psalms Litany, petitions, and collects Hours of the Cross Hours of the Holy Spirit Suffrages, Seven Verses of St. Bernard, prayer Office of the Dead Cues to Five Joys of the Virgin with prayer and antiphon Two prayers to the Virgin 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 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. 1435-1440 in Amiens by artists from the circle of the Master of W.281 (Randall, cat. 112) for a female patron depicted on fol. 135r. The manuscript contains fourteen miniatures and is localized to Amiens by the contents of the calendar and litany, which include many saints particular to that region. Quire 12 (fols. 82-89) is misbound with quire 13 (fols. 90-97), with Suffrages and the Seven Verses of St. Bernard (fols. 82-89) intended to be after the Office of the Dead (fols. 90-128), as evinced by the location of the rubric for the Office of the Dead on fol. 81v. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.262 The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is French, Middle (ca.1400-1600). 1r - 142v Book of Hours 1r - 12r Calendar Full calendar; graded in gold, red, and blue; contents particular to Amiens; saints of note include Firminus (Jan. 13, first bishop of Amiens, Translation), Ulphia (Jan. 31), Joseph (Mar. 19), Peter II (Apr. 17, "dyacre", bishop of Poitiers), Elphege (Apr. 19), Honoratus (May 16, bishop of Amiens), Helen (May 22), Hildebert (May 27, bishop of Meaux), Fuscianus (Jun. 27, martyred at Amiens), "Saincte doctrine" (Jul. 5), Grimbald (Jul. 8), Willehad (Jul. 13, bishop of Bremen, Ordination), Oswald (Aug. 5), Firminus (Aug. 25, "fremin"), Firminus II ("fremin") and Lupus (Sept. 1, third bishop of Amiens and bishop of Sens, respectively), Aurea (Sept. 13, Translation), Menna (Oct. 3, Toul), Wulfram (Oct. 15, "ouffran", bishop of Sens, Translation), Dometius (Oct. 24, "domice", deacon and canon at Amiens cathedral), Salvius (Oct. 29, bishop of Amiens), Willibrord (Nov. 7, bishop of Utrecht), Fuscianus (Dec. 11) 13r - 16v Gospel sequences Initium sancti evangelii secundum iohannem. gloria tibi domine. In principio: erat verbum 17r - 60v Hours of the Virgin Domine labia mea Headings at canonical hours in French beginning at Lauds, omitted at Sext and None; other headings in French and Latin 61r - 71r Seven Penitential Psalms Domine ne in furore 71r - 75v Litany, petitions, and collects Letanie Particular to Amiens as per calendar; fols. 71r-73v: Litany, with fifteen martyrs including Stephen, Lawrence, Vincent, Fabian, Sebastian, Dionysius, Mauricius, Eustace, Firminus, Quintinus, Fuscianus, Christopher, George, Lucianus and Clement; eighteen confessors with seven popes, including Remigius, Constantianus, Vedast, Amandus, Germanus, Antony, Dominic, Francis, Benedict, Maurus, and Lupus; eight virgins, including Mary Magdalene, Mary Egyptian, Catherine, Margaret, Lucy, Agatha, Agnes, and Felicitas; fols. 73v-74v: Petitions, invocations, extracts from Lord's prayer, and three versicles; fols. 75r-v: Two collects, headed "Orison" 76r - 78v Hours of the Cross Domine labia mea Internal headings in French 79r - 81v Hours of the Holy Spirit Domine labia mea Internal headings in French 82r - 89v Suffrages, Seven Verses of St. Bernard, prayer Fols. 82r-88v: Suffrages to SS. John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Peter and Paul, Andrew, Dionysius, Sebastian, Firmin, Nicolas, Maurus, Sulpicius, Antony, Margaret, Catherine, Agnes, and Mary Magdalene; fols. 89r-89v: Seven Verses of St. Bernard and prayer, headed "Les .vii. vers saint bernard" 90r - 128v Office of the Dead Pour les mors. antiphona. Placebo Heading starts on fol. 81v; internal headings mostly in French, some in Latin 129r - 129v Cues to Five Joys of the Virgin with prayer and antiphon Les .v. Joyes nostre dame. Gaude virgo mater christi que per aurem concepisti Heading on fol. 128v 130r - 134v Two prayers to the Virgin Obsecro te Fols. 130r-132v: Obsecro te; fols. 132v-134v: O intemerata, headed "orison" 135r - 142v Devotional sequence Doulce dame de misericorde mere de pitie. Fols. 135r-139r: Fifteen Joys of the Virgin; fols. 139r-141v: Seven Requests to our Lord, headed "Les .vii. requestes."; 141v-142v: two hymns, each headed "ynne"

Medium to thick weight, poorly selected and prepared; brownish color

 Foliation: i+142+i20.0 14.5 11.2 6.7

Quires 1-2: 6 (fols. 1-12); Quire 3: 4 (fols. 13-16); Quires 4-10: 8 (fols. 17-72); Quire 11: 8, with second folio tipped after fol. 73 (fols. 73-81); Quire 12: 8, misbound (fols. 82-89); Quires 13-17: 8 (fols. 90-129); Quire 18: 4, with fifth folio tipped after fol. 133 (fols. 130-133); Quire 19: 8 (fols. 135-142) Somewhat extant beginning on fol. 40v in text hand through fol. 105v, in littera batarda on fols. 113v and 121v, in brown ink

Ruled in light red ink; layout does not apply to calendar: written space 11.1 cm x 6.9 cm; 4 columns of 17 lines Misbound quire Written in textura formata Miniatures on fols. 17r, 27r, 36r, 41r, 44v, 47v, 51r and 57r Miniature on fol. 61r Miniature on fol. 76r Miniature on fol. 79r Miniature on fol. 87r Miniature on fol. 90r Heraldic shield on fol. 132v Miniature on fol. 135r; seventeenth-century drawing in brown ink of coat of arms, labeled "d'azur aux trois etoiles de sable placés et un cheveron d'argent brizé" on fol. 142v Fourteen miniatures; decorated initials at major text divisions (4 lines), at secondary text divisions (2 lines), at "K L" in calendar (2 lines), and at versals and dominical letters "A" in calendar (1 lines); foliate borders at pages with miniatures and at secondary text openings identified by 2-line initials; line fillers starting on fol. 25r (1 line), rubrics in red, text in dark brown ink Annunciation Hours of the Virgin: Matins Miniature Visitation Hours of the Virgin: Lauds Miniature Nativity Hours of the Virgin: Prime Miniature Annunciation to Shepherds Hours of the Virgin: Terce Miniature Adoration of the Magi Hours of the Virgin: Sext Miniature Presentation in the Temple Hours of the Virgin: None Miniature Flight into Egypt Hours of the Virgin: Vespers Miniature Coronation of the Virgin Hours of the Virgin: Compline Miniature King David penitent Seven Penitential Psalms Miniature Crucifixion Hours of the Cross Miniature Pentecost Hours of the Holy Spirit Miniature St. Margaret issuing from the dragon Suffrages Miniature Burial service Office of the Dead Miniature Virgin and Child enthroned, adored by female manuscript owner presented by St. John the Baptist Fifteen Joys of the Virgin Miniature

Bound in Paris, France by Léon Gruel in nineteenth century; brown morocco leather; re-sewn on five cords; upper and lower boards blind tooled with imitation fifteenth-century Flemish motifs; five raised bands on spine; gilt title on spine reading "Heures/ D'Ameins/ Saec. XV.", at tail edge of spine reading "Gruel"; modern gilded edges; two modern leather straps missing, metal edge-pin clasps at fore-edge of upper and lower boards extant

 Ca. 1425-1440 CE Amiens Created in Amiens ca. 1435-1440 by artists from the circle of the Master of Walters 281 for female patron, depicted on fol. 135r Rebound by firm of Léon Gruel, Paris bookbinder, twentieth century Leo S. Olschki, Florence bookseller, before 1912 Purchased from Leo S. Olschki by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912 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. 795, cat. no. 240. Bowles, E. A., "A Checklist of Musical Instruments in Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscripts at the Walters Art Gallery," Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association, 1976, p. 721, 723. Cahn, W.. and Marrow, J, "Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at Yale: A Selection," Yale University Library Gazette 4, no. 52 (1978), pp. 174-284 Plummer, John, with the assistance of Gregory Clark. The Last Flowering: French Painting in Manuscripts, 1420-1530. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1982., cat. no. 14, p. 11 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. 232, 433, fig. 47 (fol. 41r) Wieck, Roger S. Time Sanctified. The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life. New York: George Braziller. 1988. Pp. 129, 187, cat. no. 36, fig. 118, fol. 90 Sterling, C., La peinture médiévale a Paris, Paris 1990 Nash, Susie. Between France and Flanders: Manuscript Illumination in Lyons. London: The British Library, 1999; pp. 76-78, 117, 119, 120, 128, 133, 187, 215, 218-219, 224, 228, 405, figs. 11, 16, 66-67, 69-70, 179, 184, 189, pl. 13. Wieck, Roger S. “The Death Desired: Books of Hours and the Medieval Funeral.” In Death and Dying in the Middle Ages. Edited by Edelgard E. DuBruck and Barbara I. Gusick, 431-476. New York: Peter Lang, 1999; pp. 440 (as fig. 24), 447 (n. 23), 472 (fig. 24). Clark, Gregory T. Made in Flanders: The Master of the Ghent Privileges and Manuscript Painting in the Southern Netherlands in the Time of Philip the Good. Tournhout, Belgium: Brepolis Publishers, 2000; pp. 67, 71; illus. 31-32. Natale, Mauro. “Maestro de las Horas Collins: Horas de Thiébaut de Luxemburgo, Amiens, c. 1440.” In El Renacimiento mediterrńeo: Viajes de artistas e itinerarios de obras entre Italia, Francia y España en el siglo XV. Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, del 31 de enero al 6 de mayo de 2001, Valencia Museu de Belles Arts de València, del 18 de mayo al 2 de septiembre de 2001. Edited by Mauro Natale, 216-218. Madrid: Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2001; p. 216 (ref. under cat. no. 17). Büttner, F.O. “Ce sera moy. 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