Walters Ms. W.277, Book of Hours Calendar Gospel Sequences Hours of the Cross Hours of the Holy Spirit Five Verses of St. Gregory Hours of the Virgin Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany Office of the Dead Suffrages and Eight Verses of St. Bernard Book of Hours Principal cataloger Randall, Lilian M.C. Cataloger Bucca, Lauren 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 from ca. 1480 was possibly made in Tournai. The manuscript passed through the hands of several women, and while the first owner was anonymous, the text and imagery reveals she had Franciscan sympathies. An eighteenth-century inscription at the front of the manuscript suggests it was presented to Philippa of Guelders (ca. 1480-1562) by Pope Leo X upon her ordination at the Franciscan convent of Sainte-Clare in Pont-a-Mousson in 1520. The quality of the miniatures suggests that the artist was a novice, yet his expressive individual style and unusual marginalia, in which figures and animals hold scrolls inscribed with French phrases, provide the manuscript with considerable charm. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.277 The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is French, Middle (ca.1400-1600). 1r - 180v Book of Hours 4r - 15v Calendar Jenvier a xxxi jours.et la lune xxx Calendar half full, graded in red and black; contains Franciscan and Utrecht feasts, possibly indicating a diocese of Cambrai: Epiphany (Jan. 6), Lucianus (Jan. 7), Agnes (Jan. 21), Ansbert (Jan. 24), Purification of the Virgin (Feb. 2), Apollonia (Feb. 8), Scholastica (Feb. 9), 79 Martyrs (Feb. 21), Bavo (Feb. 23), Epigmenus (Mar. 24), Dometius (Mar. 30) (which is rare, comparisons seen in ca. 1400 Utrecht calendars in PML M.917 AND M.248; ONB Ser. n. 12878), Firminus (Apr. 6), Ursmar (Apr. 18), Mark (Apr. 25), Elizabeth of Hungary (May 2), Ivo (May 19), Anthony of Padua (Franciscan) (June 13), Landelin (June 15), Vincent (previously count named Madelgar, husband of St. Waldetrudis (July 14), Anne (July 19), Romanus (Aug. 8), Gaugeric (Aug. 11), Bartholomew (Aug. 24), Maurice (Sept. 22), Ghislain (Oct. 9), Venantius (Oct. 11), Justus (Oct. 19), Brictius (Oct. 13), Anianus (Nov. 18), Edmund (Nov. 20), Lucy (Dec. 13), Valentine (Dec. 16), Gratian (Dec. 17), Didyus (Dec. 22), John Evangelist (Dec. 27). 16r - 20v Gospel Sequences Iiniicium (sic) sancti evangelii secundum iohannem. Gloria tibi domine. (first word misspelled in manuscript) In principio 22v - 31v Hours of the Cross Incipiunt hore sancte crucis Domine labia mea 32r - 36v Hours of the Holy Spirit Incipiunt hore sancti spiritus Domine labia mea 37r - 37v Five Verses of St. Gregory De saint grigore orison Domine ihesu xriste adoro te in cruce 38v - 102r Hours of the Virgin Domine labia mea Headings for canonical hours begin with Lauds (fol. 57r) 102v - 126v Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany Domine ne in furore Fols. 102v-114r: the Seven Penitential Psalms; fols. 114r-123r: Litany, heading reads "Letania" and indicates pro-French and Franciscan sympathy; fifteen apostles and disciples from Peter to Mark; ten martyrs; nine popes/confessors that ends with Louis of France; six holy men: Francis, Benedict, Anthony, Dominic, Louis of Toulouse (Franciscan), Bernardinus of Siena (Franciscan); ten virgins: Mary Magdalene, Agnes, Lucy, Cecilia, Agatha, Catherine, Barbara, Praxedis, Clare (Franciscan), Elizabeth (Franciscan tertiary); fols. 116v-121r: petitions; fols. 121r-123r: ten collects; fols. 123v-126v: Prayer to the Virgin 127v - 172r Office of the Dead Secuntur vigilie mortuorum Placebo. Dilexi quoniam exaudiet dominus 172v - 180v Suffrages and Eight Verses of St. Bernard Dou saint esperit Veni creator spiritus mentes Fols. 172v-173r: suffrage to the Holy Spirit; fols. 173r-174v: Eight Verses of St. Bernard and prayer for female suppliant; fols. 174r-180v: suffrages to SS. Michael, John the Baptist, Sebastian, Anthony abbot, Nicholas, Catherine, and Barbara

Medium-weight calfskin parchment, selected and prepared with care; parchment still clean and well preserved; minor flaws and damage on the flyleaves

 Foliation: ii+180+ii20.5 15.0 11.0 7.6 Pencilled foliation in upper-right corners rectos

Additional quire added at fols. 16r-21v

 Layout refers to all but calendar: written surface: 7.3 x 11.2 cm; 4 columns, 17 lines Textura; text added early on fols. 16r-20v by different hand in more compressed textura Large miniature on fol. 16r Full-page miniature on fol. 22v; decorated initial 'D' at the opening of the text; small miniatures at each devotional hour on fols. 24r, 25v, 26v, 28r, 29r, and 30v Image of a woman with an inscribed banner on fol. 32r Full-page miniatures on fols. 38v, 69v, 74v, 79v, 84v, 89v, 96v; saints and French inscriptions in the margins Full-page miniature on fol. 102v; decorated initial 'D' on fol. 103r Full-page miniature on fol. 127v Eleven full-page miniatures, with one added early (fol. 16); seven small miniatures depicting the Passion of Christ (7-8 lines); incipit initials on pages opposite full-page miniatures decorated with a rose-colored vine on gold (5 lines), exception on fol. 23 (8 lines); initials at "K L" in calendar and secondary text openings (2 lines); versals in gilded letters on dark-blue and rose backgrounds (1 line); rubrics and significant feast days in red; text in dark brown ink St. John on Patmos Gospel Sequences Full-page miniature Crucifixion Hours of the Cross: Matins Full-page miniature Betrayal and Arrest of Jesus Hours of the Cross: Prime Small miniature, 7 lines Christ before Herod Hours of the Cross: Terce Small miniature, 8 lines Flagellation Hours of the Cross: Sext Small miniature, 7 lines Christ carrying the Cross Hours of the Cross: None Small miniature, 8 lines Deposition Hours of the Cross: Vespers Small miniature, 8 lines Lamentation Hours of the Cross: Compline Small miniature, 8 lines Annunciation Hours of the Virgin: Matins Full-page miniature Nativity Hours of the Virgin: Prime Full-page miniature Annunciation to the Shepherds Hours of the Virgin: Terce Full-page miniature Adoration of the Magi Hours of the Virgin: Sext Full-page miniature Circumcision Hours of the Virgin: None Full-page miniature Flight into Egypt and the miracle of the wheat field Hours of the Virgin: Vespers Full-page miniature Massacre of the Innocents Hours of the Virgin: Compline Full-page miniature Penitential David Seven Penitential Psalms Full-page miniature Raising of Lazarus Office of the Dead Full-page miniature

Crimson velvet binding made ca. nineteenth century, possibly in England given the fastenings (see below); five bands with original sewing; spine rounded naturally; endbands in light pink silk; gilt edges with red and green vines, as well as birds and white, red, and blue flowers; center fore-edge containing 'Ihs' monogram, ca. eighteenth century (?); possible traces of earlier single-fastening at center fore-edge on first and last folios of textblock; two engraved edge-pin fastenings by R. Garrard (London, 1844-45), with "R G" monogram at the bottom of clasps

 Ca. 1480 CE Tournai (?), Flanders Made in Flanders, possibly Tournai based upon illumination style, ca. 1480; for use of Rome, possibly Franciscan First owner, ca. 1480, likely female as fol. 32r depicts St. Agnes; Franciscan and pro-French sympathy seen in fols. 32r-102v Philippa of Guelders (ca. 1480-1562), France, 1520; Pope Leo X believed to have presented this book to her upon entrance into the Franciscan convent of Ste. -Clare in Pont-a-Mousson (eighteenth-century inscription by later owner Nicolas-Joseph Bauchon in decorative medallion on fol. 2r relates this story); engraved bookplate dated 1686 added onto front pastedown at time of rebinding depicts Philippa of Guelders, the widowed queen of Duke Rene of Sicily (d. 1508) in a nun's habit Nicolas-Joseph Bauchon, France, received the book in 1796 (decorated medallion on fol. 3r records event); Bauchon also added the medallions on fols. 2r and 179v "No. 1800" inscribed on fol. 180v, ca. 1800 Pencilled notations added ca. 1800: "D R." (fol. iv) and "No. 9" (fol. 1r) Leo S. Olschki collection, Florence, ca. 1900; Olschki's inventory number written on fol. 1r: "79/32942" Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Leo S. Olschki ca. 1912 (WAM archives, no. 79 in the shipping list) 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. 802, cat. no. 290. 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. 723-724. Owens, M.B., "Musical Subjects in the Illumination of Books of Hours from Fifteenth-Century France and Flanders", PhD dissertation, University of Chicago, 1987, pp. 452-453. Randall, Lillian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 3, Belgium, 1250-1530. Part 2. Baltimore, London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1997; pp. 401-407, cat. no. 278. 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 Grotesques French Medallion France