Walters Ms. W.263, Book of Hours Poem on death Calendar Hours of the Cross Hours of the Holy Spirit Hours of the Virgin Advent Office of the Virgin Seven Penitential Psalms Litany, petitions, and collects Office of the Dead Devotional Sequence Book of Hours artist Circle of the Master of Guillebert de Mets Principal cataloger Randall, Lilian M.C. Cataloger Herbold, Rebekah Editor Herbert, Lynley Copy editor Dibble, Charles Contributor Emery, Doug Contributor Herbold, Rebekah 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 completed ca. 1440-50, and likely destined for Tournai. The decoration of this manuscript includes two full-page miniatures, eleven extant smaller miniatures, one historiated initial, and one drollery. The illumination is in the style of the Master of Guillebert de Mets, although the work would have been completed during the closing stage of Mets' career. The Master of Guillebert de Mets' principal disciple was the Master of the Ghent Privileges, with whom he may have been in collaboration, as indicated by numerous comparisons (see Dogaer 1987, 33-37). This book begins with a full-page miniature depicting the Mass of St. Gregory, a folio that appears to have been relocated from its original placement just before fol. 180 to its current location as fol. 2. It should be noted that fol. 2 has experienced extensive paint loss and has since been retouched, although it is unknown by whom or at what time. The unpretentious illumination program could have been the reason for this switch, perhaps to make the manuscript more appealing for a potential buyer. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.263 The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is French, Middle (ca.1400-1600). 1r - 183v Book of Hours 1r - 2v Poem on death Tout est mort Poem on death, in French; added by owner before 1500 in upper part of what was previously a pastedown; 8 lines, written in brown ink; inscription reads, "La mort/ Tout est mort ou meurt ou mora/ En general je faiz mon cry/ Pas ung te non deschappera/ Tout est mort ou meurt ou moura/ Papes cardinaulx et prelats/ Princes rois de tous je dis/ Tout est mort ou meurt ou moura/ En general je faiz mon cry"; erasures below Consuelo Dutschke assisted in the search for other examples of this text 3r - 8v Calendar Jenvier a xxxi. jours le lune xxx. Sparsely filled; ruled in mauve; graded in red and brown; names preceded by "Saint" or "Sainte" unabbreviated, very few followed by designations; contents indicate Tournai and Cambrai diocese elements; feasts of note include: Epiphany (Jan. 6, "Le jour des rois"), Valeric (Apr. 1, "Walri"), Peter martyr (Apr. 28, Dominican), Petronilla (May 31, "peronne"), Margaret (Jul. 20, "magrite"), Bartholomew (Aug. 24, "bietremien"), Piatus and Remigius (Oct. 1, "piat," "remi"), Francis (Oct. 4), Dionysius and Ghislain (Oct. 9, "denus [sic] guillain") Donatian (Oct. 15, "donaes"; variant date, Oct. 13: Cambrai, Oct. 14: Tournai), Maclovius (Nov. 15, "macut"), Lucy (Dec. 13, "lusse"), Stephen (Dec. 26, "esteuene") 9r - 12v Hours of the Cross De sancta cruce Domina labia mea aperies 13r - 16v Hours of the Holy Spirit De sancto spiritu Domine labia mea aperies 17r - 81v Hours of the Virgin Hore beate marie virginis Domine labia mea aperies Matins ends imperfectly in canticle, "Te deum laudamus" Headings for canonical hours in Latin, extant beginning at Prime; secondary headings in Latin and French 82r - 92v Advent Office of the Virgin Chi commence lordenance del advent ensy que on le doit dire depuis le nuit del advent. iusque ale nuit de noel. A viespre. Deus in adiutorium meum intende Text gaps after fols. 88 and 92; headings at secondary text divisions in Latin, instruction on seasonal liturgical use in French 94r - 107r Seven Penitential Psalms Psalmi penitentiales Deus in aduitorium meum intende 107r - 116v Litany, petitions, and collects Kyrie eleison Fols. 107r-116v: Litany, format as for Use of Rome, with a few regional saints; sixteen apostles and disciples, from Peter to Mark, Matthew listed twice; sixteen martyrs, including Nicasius "cum s. tuis," Gereon "c. s. tuis"; seven popes and confessors, including Louis; seven confessors/monks/hermits/priests/levites, including Leonard; sixteen female saints (notable quantity), including Mary Magdalene, Mary Egyptian, Clare, Martha, Anne, Ursula; fols. 110v-112v: petitions, invocations; fols. 113r-v: Psalm 69 in full, ending "Gloria Patri"; fols. 113v-116v: sequence of invocations; nine collects 117r - 161v Office of the Dead Vigilie mortuorum Dilexi quoniam exaudiet Dominus Office of the Dead, for Use of Rome; three collects at end of Vespers, one collect at end of Office, all headed "collecta" except the first on fols. 123v-124r: "oratio Deus cui proprium est misereri semper . . . . Inclina domine aurem tuam . . . . Fidelium deus omnium conditor . . . . [fol. 161r, explicit] Partem beate resurrectionis . . . / . . . requiescant in pace. amen" 162r - 183v Devotional Sequence Devote orison de nostre dame. Obsecro te domina Incomplete devotional sequence, added early, headings in Latin and French; fols. 163-166v, and 167r-170v: two prayers to the Virgin: "Devote orison de nostre dame" and "Encore une devote orison de de [sic] nostre dame"; fols. 170v-175v: Four Gospel Sequences, the first headed: "Inicium sancti euvangelii secundum iohannem. Gloria tibi Domine"; last two are headed, "Secundum . . . ."; fols. 173, 174v: John 1:1-14, Luke 1:26-38, Matthew 2:1-12, Mark 16:14-20; fols. 176-179v: Athanasian Creed: "Chi sensuit une devote orison a nostre signeur ihesu crist"; fols. 180r-182r: Prayer to Christ, closing formulas; fol. 182v: blank; fols. 183r-v: blank endleaf, later entries mostly effaced

Parchment medium to heavy weight, of fair selection and preparation; modern repair of tear on fol. 179, penciled note at top reads, "dechiré"; front flyleaf i and back flyleaf i of modern parchment, bifoliate with facing pastedown

 Foliation: i+183+i19.7 14.7 10.7 7.2 Front flyleaf and back flyleaf are bifoliate with facing pastedown

Quire 1: singleton, with second folio tipped in, shifted from back of volume (fols. 1-2); Quire 2: 6 (fols. 3-8); Quires 3-5: 8 (fols. 9-32); Quire 6: 8, with fourth and fifth folios cancelled (fols. 33-38); Quire 7: 6 (fols. 39-44); Quire 8: 2, with first folio added (fols. 45-47); Quires 9-13: 8 (fols. 48-87); Quire 14: 8, with second and sixth folios cancelled (fols. 88-93); Quires 15-16: 8 (fols. 94-109); Quire 17: 8, with eighth folio added (fols. 110-118); Quires 18-22: 8 (fols. 119-158); Quire 23: 2, with third folio added (fols. 159-161); Quire 24: 8, with first folio added (fols. 162-170); Quire 25: 8 (fols. 171-178); Quire 26: 2, with first folio tipped in (fols. 179-181); Quire 27: 2 (fols. 182-183) Three modern nineteenth- or twentieth-century pencil foliations on rectos, in upper and lower corners, mostly erased; most recent foliation at top right on rectos, used here

 Layout does not apply to calendar: written space: 13.2 x 7.1 cm; 4 columns; 32 lines Written in textura formata; additions on fols. 162r-182r in same script but written by a more competent scribe using rounded letter forms giving cohesive appearance to page, lesser quality thereafter One full-page miniature on fol. 2v; Full-page miniature was originally bound in the Devotional Sequence, immediately preceding Prayer to the Trinity, of the three modern foliation programs, confirmed transfer of single folio from before fol. 180 to front of volume: legibility of "359" is present on fol. 2 and "362" on fol. 182; folio likely moved by last binder to heighten visual appeal for potential purchaser Three-color scheme, in red: names of months and number of days per month and moon, golden numbers, dominical letters "a," major feasts; in gold and blue alternately: abbreviated references to monthly divisions; in brown, with ocher-stroked capitals: regular feasts, dominical letters "b" to "g"; "K L" illuminated One miniature on fol. 9r One miniature on fol. 13r Miniatures on fols. 17r, 48r, 53r, 58r, 63r, 68r, 76r, 94r, and 117r; one historiated initial on fol. 17r One miniature on fol. 94r One miniature on fol. 117r One full-page miniature on fol. 162v Illumination in the style of the Master of Guillebert de Mets, ca. 1440-50; two full-page miniatures (inserted); eleven extant smaller miniatures (one inserted); one historiated initial; one drollery; decorated illuminated initials of burnished gold, on gray bole through fol. 161, on dark brown bole in additions: found at text openings below miniatures, at opening of Advent Office of the Virgin, at secondary text divisions; versals; "K L" in calendar; at prayer openings of texts additions; borders, gold burnished on tan bole (with some exceptions): at three openings marked by miniatures (fols. 9r, 17r, 58r), eight openings marked by miniatures (fols. 13r, 48r, 53r, 63r, 68r, 74r, 94r, 117r), around full-page miniatures of added texts, as well as around text opposite of full-page miniatures of added texts; line fillers of panel type in blue and/or mauve, crudely patterned in white, regular color division marked by gold disk at center; rubrics in red; text in dark brown ink Mass of St. Gregory Originally preceded Prayer to the Trinity in Devotional Sequence Full-page miniature Crucifixion Hours of the Cross Miniature, 10 lines Trinity: Throne of Grace Hours of the Holy Spirit Miniature, 10 lines Annunciation; Historiated Initial "D" with the Crucifixion Hours of the Virgin: Matins Miniature, 10 lines; historiated initial "D," 4 lines Nativity-Adoration Hours of the Virgin: Prime Miniature, 10 lines Annunciation to Shepherds and Shepherdess Hours of the Virgin: Terce Miniature, 10 lines Adoration of the Magi Hours of the Virgin: Sext Miniature, 10 lines Presentation in the Temple Hours of the Virgin: None Miniature, 10 lines Flight into Egypt Hours of the Virgin: Vespers Miniature, 10 lines Coronation of the Virgin by elderly God-Father Hours of the Virgin: Compline Miniature, 10 lines Last Judgment, flaming Hell-mouth Seven Penitential Psalms Miniature, 10 lines Funeral Service Office of the Dead Miniature, 10 lines Virgin and Child enthroned Devotional Sequence: Obsecro Te Full-page miniature

France, ca. 1900; brown morocco; resewn on five cords; spine rounded and backed; gilt title "HORAE" in second compartment, "GRUEL" in minute gilt capitals at tail; modern endbands in yellow and crimson silk; edges trimmed, regilt

 Ca. 1440-1450 CE Tournai (?) Completed for Use of Rome, ca. 1440-50; illuminated in style associated with the Master of Guillebert de Mets and the Master of the Ghent Privileges, in Tournai (?); first owner probably female given the quantity of female saints Numerous erasures, some entries partially reconstructable under ultraviolet light on fols. 1r, 2r, 12v, 16v, 93v: ". . . de boil[?]ville"; legible on fol. 182v "Cest katerin a graneville" ca. fifteenth century Inscription added ca. nineteenth century; script imitating textura, "A nostre anne[?]" Léon Gruel, Paris, ca. late nineteenth or early twentieth century Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel between 1895 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. 792, cat. no. 221. Panofsky, Erwin. Early Netherlandish Painting. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1953; pp. 61, 121, 123. Bowles, E. A. "A Checklist of Musical Instruments in Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscripts at the Walters Art Gallery," Quarterly Journal of the Musical Library Association 32, no. 4 (1976): 719-726; pp. 721, 722. Dogaer, Georges. Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th Centuries. Amsterdam: B.M. Israël, 1987; p. 36 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. 443. 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. 175-181 (ref. under cat. no. 238, W.263). Clark, G. T., "The William S. Galzier Collection," Twenty-first Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library. Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts Acquired, 1984-1986, Including the Collections of William S. Glazier & Curt F. Bühler. New York, 1989; p. 147. 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. Turnhout: Brepols, 2000; pp. 21-23, 55-56, 59, 66, 68, 103 (nn. 2, 17), 105-108, 129, 133, 135-136, 139, 144 (n. 23), 181, 183, 192-194, figs. 15-20, illus. 52-53. Luyster, Amanda. “Two Books of Hours: The Gold Scrolls Group, England, and Internationalism in the Fifteenth Century.” In Catholic Collecting: Catholic Reflections (1538-1850). Exhibition Catalogue, College of the Holy Cross and the Cantor Art Gallery, February 22-April 13, 2006, edited by Virginia C. Raguin, 89-101. Worcester, MA: Trustees of the College of the Holy Cross, 2006; pp. 92 (fig. 3), 93. Clark, Gregory T. “Doornik aan de Schelde, Gand sur l’Escaut: Book Painters in Two Cities on One River in the Time of Philip the Good.” In Campin in Context‬: Peinture et société dans la vallée de l'Escaut à l'époque de Robert Campin, 1375-1445, edited by Ludovic Nys, Dominique Vanwijnsberghe, Xavier Fontaine, and Jacques Debergh, 255-264. 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