Walters Ms. W.269, Book of Hours Three Prayers Calendar Hours of the Virgin Seven Verses of St. Bernard Five Joys of the Virgin Two devotions to the Virgin Seven Penitential Psalms Litany, petitions, collects and Gospel Sequence of St. John Fifteen Joys of the Virgin Seven Requests to Our Lord Hours of the Cross Devotional Sequence Devotional Sequence Suffrages Office of the Dead Prayers in honor of the Virgin Book of Hours Principal cataloger Randall, Lilian M.C. Cataloger Ransom, Allison Editor Herbert, Lynley Copy editor Wallace, Susan 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 completed for Use of Reims ca. 1450-1475 in northeastern France. The book was first owned by Collette, who is portrayed on fol. 76r with the Virgin and Child. An inscription from 1559 on the back pastedown records later ownership by female owner G. Marlot, as well as by her aunt, née Labourgue, wife of the merchant Jean Bourguet, followed by G. Marlot's daughter, Martine Marlot. There is a large amount of unusual and specifically female content in the book, including a heightened amount of prayers to the Virgin, virgins listed in the calendar and litany, as well as the unusual inclusion of the Hours of St. Catherine. The manuscript also contains charming marginalia, most famously a garden party scene in which couples play music, and even games such as backgammon, together (fol. 16r). Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.269 The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is French, Middle (ca.1400-1600). 1r - 156v Book of Hours 1r - 3v Three Prayers Sire dieu tour puissant Second prayer for female suppliant added early and misbound from after fol. 3 4r - 15v Calendar Janvier a xxxi jour la lune xxx Calendar partly full; graded in red and black; includes Egyptian dates; contains saints venerated in northern France and notable Reims feasts; saints of note include Remigius and Hilary (Jan. 13), Peter martyr (Apr. 29), Gibrian (May 7), Gangulf (May 11), Theoderic (Jul. 1), Anne (Jul. 26), Louis of France (Aug. 25), Remigius (Oct. 1), Benedicta (Oct. 8), Dionysius (Oct. 9), Bercharius (Oct. 16), Crispinus and Crispinianus (Oct. 25), Hubert (Nov. 3), Laetus (Nov. 5), Brictius (Nov. 13, archbishop of Tours), Lucia (Dec. 13), Nicasius (Dec. 14, Reims) 16r - 57r Hours of the Virgin Domine labia mea Matins 3-lesson; French headings beginning at Prime but lacking at None 57v - 58r Seven Verses of St. Bernard Les vii. vers saint bernard Illumina oculos meos neunquam Prayer for female suppliant 58r - 58v Five Joys of the Virgin Les .v. joies nostre dame Gaude virgo mater xristi 59r - 59v Two devotions to the Virgin Salutacion a nostre dame Ave ancilla trinitas ave preelecta 60r - 69v Seven Penitential Psalms Domine ne infurore 69v - 75v Litany, petitions, collects and Gospel Sequence of St. John Kyrieleyson Contents suggest Reims as per calendar; fols. 69v-72v: litany, including regional saints from Reims; twenty-two martyrs, including Vincent, Sebastian, Christopher, Dionysius, Maurice, Gereon, Quintinus, Timothy, Apollinaris, Crispin, Crispinianus, George, Blasius, Cosmas, Damian, Lambert, Nicasius; sixteen confessors, including Benedict, Remigius, Amandus, Brictius, Aegydius, Eligius, Nicolas, Basolus; twenty-three virgins, including Bova and Doda; fols. 72v-74r: Petitions; fol. 74r-74v: two collects, headed by "oratio"; fols. 74v-75v: Gospel Sequence of St. John, headed "Inicium sancti ivvangelii secundum johannem" 75v - 80v Fifteen Joys of the Virgin Les .xv. joies notre dame Doulce dame de misericorde Rubric precedes full-page miniature with incipit text on fol. 75v 81r - 83v Seven Requests to Our Lord Quiconques veult estre bien 83v - 86v Hours of the Cross Les heures de la crois Domine labia mea Rubric on fol. 83v preceding full-page miniature with incipit on fol. 84r; headings at hours in French 86v - 100v Devotional Sequence Les heures du saint esprit Domine labia mea Rubric on fol. 86v preceding full-page miniature with incipit on fol. 87r; Gospel Sequence of Passion according to John incorrectly attributed to Luke in rubric; headings in French throughout; fols. 87r-89v: Hours of the Holy Spirit; fols. 89v-93v: two prayers to the Virgin: fols. 89v-92v: Obsecro te; fols. 92v-93v: Saluto te; fols. 93v-94r: Gospel Sequence of Passion according to John; fols. 95r-95v: Prayer to Christ; fols. 95v-96v: Communion prayers; fols. 96v-97v: Prayer of Indulgence, with 240 days of pardons supposedly granted by Pope Innocent; fols. 97v-98v: Prayer of Indulgence, in French, daily recitation of which supposedly granted 20,036 days of pardon from St. Gregory; fols. 98v-100v: Three suffrages, to SS. Michael, Quintinus, and Sebastian 101r - 109v Devotional Sequence Cy apres sensieulent le hures Sainte katherine Domine labia mea Fols. 101r-105r: Hours of St. Catherine; fols. 105r-106r: Prayers for recitation at Mass; fols. 106r-107r: Suffrages to SS. Apollonia, Peter, Paul and the Virgin, Candlemas, Blasius, and Agnes 110r - 114v Suffrages [?] de saint lie antiphona. Nulla enim infirmitas Suffrages to SS. Laetus, Remigius, Nicolas, Christopher, and Catherine Headings in French 116r - 150r Office of the Dead Placebo. Dilexi quoniam For Use of Reims 150v - 155v Prayers in honor of the Virgin Missus est gabriel angelus ad marium virginem Fols. 150r-155v added early; fol. 155r-v repeats prayer on fol. 1r-v

Medium to thick parchment, well selected and prepared; color difference notable between brown hair side and white flesh side, mostly calfskin; goat used for folios added to the beginning and end (fols. 1-3 and 154-156)

 Foliation: 15618.5 13.0 9.6 7.3 Modern pencil foliation, upper right corner rectos

Quire 1: 2, with first folio used as front pastedown (fol. 1); Quire 2: 2 (fols. 2-3); Quires 3-4: 6 (fols. 4-15); Quires 5-9: 8 (fols. 16-55); Quire 10: 4 (fols. 56-59); Quires 11-15: 8 (fols. 60-99); Quire 16: 10 (fols. 100-109); Quire 17: 6 (fols. 110-115); Quires 18-21: 8 (fols. 116-147); Quire 22: 6 (fols. 148-153); Quire 23: 4, with last folio used as back pastedown (fols. 154-156) Somewhat extant beginning on lower right corner of fol. 37v

Fol. 155r-v added by same scribe who added fols. 1r-3v Written in textura Full-page miniatures fols. 16r, 25r, 34r, 38v, 42r, 45r, 48r and 53v Full-page miniature fol. 60r Full-page miniature fol. 76r Full-page miniature fol. 84r Full-page miniature fol. 87r Foliate border and large decorated initial on fol. 101r; blank page with four slits in corners imply past removal of devotional image fol. 109r-109v Full-page miniatures fols. 110r, 111r, 112r, 113r and 114r Full-page miniature on fol. 116r Eighteen full-page miniatures; decorated illuminated initials at major text openings accompanied by full-page miniatures (4 lines); small decorated initials at secondary text divisions and at "K L" in calendar (2 lines); smaller illuminated initials at versals (1 line); foliate borders surrounding text divisions signified by miniatures; drolleries present in borders surrounding full-page miniatures; line fillers in litany; rubrics in red; text in dark brown ink Annunciation, with garden populated by lovers playing music and backgammon in margin Hours of the Virgin: Matins Full-page miniature with marginalia in border Visitation Hours of the Virgin: Lauds Full-page miniature Nativity Hours of the Virgin: Prime Full-page miniature Annunciation to Shepherds and Shepherdess Hours of the Virgin: Terce Full-page miniature Adoration of the Magi Hours of the Virgin: Sext Full-page miniature Presentation in the Temple Hours of the Virgin: None Full-page miniature Flight into Egypt Hours of the Virgin: Vespers Full-page miniature Coronation of the Virgin Hours of the Virgin: Compline Full-page miniature Last Judgment Seven Penitential Psalms Full-page miniature Virgin and Child adored by female manuscript owner named Colette with marginalia Fifteen Joys of the Virgin Full-page miniature; marginalia Crucifixion, with inhabited initial "D" containing pelican drawing blood from its chest to feed young Hours of the Cross Full-page miniature; inhabited initial "D," 4 lines Pentecost/All saints Hours of the Holy Spirit Full-page miniature St. Laetus Suffrages Full-page miniature St. Remigius Suffrages Full-page miniature St. Nicolas resuscitating three youths Suffrages Full-page miniature St. Christopher carrying Christ Child Suffrages Full-page miniature St. Catherine Suffrages Full-page miniature Death of the Virgin, with Christ carrying Virgin's soul and couple playing music together in margin Office of the Dead Full-page miniature with marginalia

Bound in France ca. 1550-1575; brown calfskin boards; gilded foliate design on upper and lower boards, names "Claude/Armilhon" (upper board) and "Martinne/Marlot" (lower board) in gilt lettering; spine added ca. eighteenth or nineteenth century with gilt lettering of title, "Heures/Gotiques"; endbands of pink and blue thread with edgebead added ca. eighteenth or nineteenth century

 Ca. 1460 Northeastern France Created in northeastern France ca. 1460 for first owner, identified as Collette (portrayed on fol. 76r) Entry on inside of upper board by female owner G. Marlot dated 1559 recording ownership by aunt, named Labourgue, who was the wife of the merchant Jean Bourguet Given to G. Marlot, who then gave the book to her daughter Martine Marlot, who was the wife of Claude Armilhon Acquired by Léon Gruel, Parisian bookbinder and bookseller, late nineteenth or early twentieth century Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Léon 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. 793, cat. no. 227. 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 32, no. 4 (1976): 719-726; p. 723, pp. 721-725. Bowles, E.A. Musikleben im 15. Jahrhundert. Musikgeschichte in Bildern, Leipzig: Deutscher Verlag für Musik, 1977, vol. 3; p. 180 Randall, Lilian M. C. "Jewels as Ornaments in Books." The Walters Art Gallery Bulletin 32, no. 3 (December 1979): 7-8, fig. 1 (fol. 16r). Bowles, E.A., La pratique musicale au moyen âge / Musical Performance in the Late Middle Ages. Geneva: Minkoff et Lattès, 1983; p. 126, pl. 93 (fol. 16r) 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. 447. Wieck, Roger S. Time Sanctified. The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life. New York: George Braziller, 1988; pp. 118, 188-189, cat. no. 41, fig. 98 (fol. 112). Withee, Diana. "Making Music in Medieval Manuscripts." The Walters Art Gallery 41, no 10 (December 1988): p. 5, fig. at bottom (detail fol. 16r) Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 1: France, 1240-1540. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1989; pp. 139-144, cat. no. 129 Burin, Elizabeth. "Medieval Games of Love and War." The Walters Monthly Bulletin 48, no. 10 (December 1995):2-3; p. 3, fig. 2 (fol. 16r) Sponsler, Claire. Drama and Resistance: Bodies, Goods, and Theatricality in Late Medieval England. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997; pp. 191-192 (n. 51). Avril, François. Très riches heures de Champagne: L'Enluminure en Champagne à la fin du moyen âge. Paris: Hazan, 2007; pp. 66, 68, 149, figs. 58, 61, and 129 (fols. 38v, 16r, and 11r). Newman, Paul B. Daily Life in the Middle Ages. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. 2001; p. 105. Bagnoli, Martina. The Medieval World. Baltimore and London: Walters Art Museum and D. Giles, Ltd., 2011; p. 152, fig. 136. Reinburg, Virginia. French Books of Hours: Making an Archive of Prayer, c. 1400-1600. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012; pp. vii, 23 (n. 25), 24 (fig. 1), 116 (n. 103). Fischer, Doris. "Spielen wie im Mittelalter: Über 50 Anleitungen zum Nachbauen und Mitspielen." Stuttgart: Theiss, 2013; p. 20. Clark, Gregory T. "Walters 269 and Manuscript Illumination in the Second Third of the Fifteenth Century." 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