Walters Ms. W.284, Book of Hours Calendar Devotional Sequence Hours of the Virgin Hours of the Cross Hours of the Holy Spirit Seven Penitential Psalms, litany, and collects Office of the Dead and Suffrages Devotional sequences Suffrage to St. John the Evangelist Book of Hours Principal cataloger Randall, Lilian M.C. Cataloger Han, Yuna Editor Herbert, Lynley Contributor Emery, Doug Contributor Han, Yuna Contributor Tabritha, Ariel Contributor Wiegand, Kimber Conservator Quandt, Abigail The Walters Art Museum

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 This French Book of Hours was produced in two phases: the text and most of the secondary decoration were completed in the 1420s, while thirteen large miniatures were added around 1480 by artists trained in Rouen in the style of the Master of the Geneva Latini. The initial female owner is depicted on fol. 139v kneeling in front of St. John the Evangelist. Two coats of arms probably associated with the owner appear twice, on fol. 139r-v. The celebration of specific calendar feasts indicates the volume’s original ownership in the diocese of Coutances, a part of the archbishopric of Rouen. The introduction of Nathan into the scene of the penitent David at the beginning of the Penitential Psalms was a popular theme in illumination in Rouen around this time. A special devotion to St. John the Evangelist is shown by an unusual citation of his name in the heading of a prayer to the Virgin on fol. 128v, and his unusually elaborate depiction on fol. 139v. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.284 The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is French, Middle (ca.1400-1600). 1r - 140v Book of Hours Use of Coutances; texts in Latin and French 1r - 12v Calendar Janvier a XXXI jour Calendar in French, about one half filled; Egyptian days specified; use of Coutances, diocese in archbishopric of Rouen; major feasts in blue and regular feasts in red and rose; feasts of note include: Geneviève (Jan. 3), Antony (Jan. 17), Julianus (Jan. 27), Veronica (Feb. 12), Honorina (Feb. 28), Edward (Mar. 16), Patricius (Mar. 17), Valeric (Apr. 1), Vigor (Apr. 23), Amator (May 2), Servatius (May 13), Honoratius (May 16), Ebremund (June 9), John Evangelist (June 26), Thomas of Canterbury (July 7), 'La dedicace de coust[a]n[ces]' (July 12), Vigor (July 14), Hilarinus (July 16), Clarus (July 18), Edmund (July 19), Martha (July 29), Dominic (Aug. 5), Romanus (Aug. 9), Ragnobert (Sep. 3), Gorgonius (Sep. 9), Lambert (Sep. 17), Laudus (Sep. 21), 'Les reliques de coust[a]n[ces]' (Sep. 30), Michael (Oct. 16), Mellonius (Oct. 22), Romanus (Oct. 23), Clarus (Nov. 4), Rumpharius (Nov. 18), 'O sapiencia' (Dec. 16), Gratianus (Dec. 18), Ursinus (Dec. 30) 13r - 20v Devotional Sequence Sequencia sancti evuangelii secundum lucam In illo tempore Fols. 13r-17r: Gospel Sequences, Luke 1.26-38, Matthew 2.1-12, Mark 16.14-20, John 1.1-14; fols. 17r-18r: Gospel Sequence of Passion according to John 19.1-35; fols. 18r-20v: Prayers to Christ and Virgin 21r - 60v Hours of the Virgin Principium In honore dei et beate marie Use of Coutances; canonical hours headed in Latin and French 61r - 63v Hours of the Cross Matines de la crois Domine labia mea aperies 64r - 68v Hours of the Holy Spirit Matines du saint esprit Domine labia mea aperies 69r - 84v Seven Penitential Psalms, litany, and collects Les sept pseaumes Domine ne in furore tuo arguas me Fols. 69r-78v: Seven Penitential Psalms; fols. 78v-82r: Litany, twenty-five martyrs including George,Cornelius, Dionysius, Clarus, Valentine, twenty-one confessors including Audoenus, Laudus, Bernard, Leonard, Rumpharius, Benedict, Amandus, Remigius, Eligius, Aegydius, seventeen virgins including Mary Magdalene, Geneviève, Radegundis, Juliana; fols. 82r-84r: Petitions, invocations; fols. 84r-v: five collects 85r - 125v Office of the Dead and Suffrages Ad vespres antiene Dilexi, quoniam exaudiet Dominus Fols. 85r-118v: Office of the Dead for use of Coutances; Fols. 118v-125v: Suffrages with French headings: to Sts. Michael, John Baptist, Peter and Paul, John Evangelist, James the Greater, All Apostles, Lawrence, Christopher, Sebastian, Martin, Nicolas, Maurus, Aegydius, Mary Magdalene, Catherine, Susanna, Margaret, All Saints 126r - 139r Devotional sequences Devoste oraison de nostre dame Obsecro te domina sancta maria mater dei Fols. 126r-130v: Two prayers to the Virgin, the second heading also addressed to St. John Evangelist; fols. 130v-132v: Verse prayer to Christ; fols. 132v-134v: Prayer to Virgin; fols. 134v-138v: Fifteen Joys of the Virgin; 138v-139r: Prayer to the Cross 139v - 140r Suffrage to St. John the Evangelist Commemoration a monseigneur saint iehan le vierge Ecce ego iohannes vidi ostium apertum in celo

Medium-weight parchment, relatively well prepared; first front flyleaf is modern paper and second front flyleaf is possibly original parchment, or else added in second quarter of sixteenth century at the time of rebinding

 Foliation: ii+14022.5 14.9 10.1 7.1 Modern pencil foliation, upper right corners, rectos

Quires 1-2: 6 (fols. 1-12); Quires 3-18: 8 (fols. 13-140) Centered on versos lower margin beginning on fol. 20v

Layout does not apply to calendar; written surface: 7.4 cm wide by 10.1 cm high; four columns of 17 lines Full-page miniature fol. 69r Eight miniatures less than full-page, on fols. 21r, 29v, 38r, 42r, 45v, 48v, 52r, and 57r Miniature less than full-page, fol. 61r Miniature less than full-page, fol. 64r Miniature less than full-page, fol. 85r Miniature less than full-page, fol. 139v Thirteen miniatures less than full-page with figural scenes in lower borders; twenty-four calendar illuminations with labors and zodiac symbols for each month (17 lines); decorated initials throughout (1-4 lines); rectangular borders filled with flowers, fruits, and acanthus at sides of text divisions; borders filling area beside illuminations in calendar and around smaller miniatures at text divisions; line fillers throughout; rubrics in tan-rose; text in black ink Annunciation Miniature less than full-page Visitation Miniature less than full-page Nativity Miniature less than full-page Annunciation to Shepherds and Shepherdess Miniature less than full-page Adoration of the Magi Miniature less than full-page Presentation in the Temple Miniature less than full-page Flight into Egypt, Massacre of the Innocents, and Miracle of the Cornfield Miniature less than full-page Coronation of the Virgin Miniature less than full-page Crucifixion Miniature less than full-page Pentecost Miniature less than full-page Nathan Admonishing David Miniature less than full-page Four monks seated behind corpse; St. Michael and Devil battling for man's soul Miniature less than full-page St. John Evangelist and reverent female patron Miniature less than full-page

Rebound in France in the second quarter of the sixteenth century; brown calf; sewn on five slit straps; corners and spine repaired in the nineteenth century

 Ca. 15th century CE Rouen, France Created for use of Coutances in the 1420s, with text completed in that initial stage, and illumination completed around 1480 at Rouen by the Master of the Geneva Latini and his workshop; female owner's portrait on fol. 139v; two coats of arms on fol. 139r, one of Moy de la Croix family of Beauvais (left) and the other of Norman family of Bazan de Flamanville in region of Caen (right) Rebound in France ca. 1540 Léon Gruel, Paris, late nineteenth or early twentieth century; his bookplate engraved "L G" and numbered "1218;" number also found on sale slip now in WAM file Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel 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. 791, cat. no. 218 Bowles, Edmund A. "A Checklist of Musical Instruments in Fifteenth Century Illuminated Manuscripts at the Walters Art Gallery." Music Library Association 32 (1976): 719-726; pp. 721-724 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. 457, figs. 46-48 (fols. 42r, 57r, 69r) Wieck, Roger S. Time Sanctified. The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life. New York: George Braziller, 1988; pp. 128 and 199, cat. no. 60, fig. 117 (fol. 85r) Owens, Margareth Boyer. "The Image of King David in Prayer in Fifteenth-Century Books of Hours." Imago Musicae, International Yearbook of Musical Iconography 6 (1989): 23-38; p. 28, fig. 3 Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 2. France, 1420-1540. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1989; pp. 294-300, cat. no. 162 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 Textbook Scholarly compendium Ancient Greece Ancient Rome Literature Japanese Japan Liturgical Devotional Scriptural Theological Legal Historical Scientific Scientific -- Medical Literary -- Prose Literary -- Poetry Philosophical Astrological Sufi English Book of Hours Christian French Book Codex Illumination Manuscript Miniature Walters Art Museum France 15th century Devotion Heraldry