Walters Ms. W.298, Breviary Devotions to the Trinity and Virgin Calendar Temporale: First Advent Sunday through fourth Sunday in November Ferial Psalter Three Canticles Litany, petitions, and collects Office of the Dead, for the use of Rome Eight liturgical tables concerning Advent and Sunday offices of movable feasts Common of Saints Sanctorale, St. Saturninus to St. Catherine Breviary artist Followers of Willem Vrelant Principal cataloger Randall, Lilian M.C. Cataloger Herbold, Rebekah Editor Herbert, Lynley Copy editor Wallace, Susan 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 Breviary was created ca. 1460-70 in the manner of the followers of Willem Vrelant. Featuring a calendar for monastic use, this book exhibits affiliations with St. Vaast in Arras. Further, a Franciscan association is indicated by additions to the calendar and its decoration. The breviary was owned in Belgium sometime in the sixteenth century (a possible contemporary expunged ink inscription can be found at the foot of fol. 9r). It was rebound sometime in the early eighteenth century and is connected to Ludwig Rosenthal, ca. 1900. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.298 The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. 1r - 421v Breviary artist 1r - 2v Devotions to the Trinity and Virgin De Sancta Trinitate Sixteenth-century additions on originally blank front flyleaves: short devotions to the Trinity, Virgin, SS. Peter and Paul, Martin, Simeon, Jerome, and Gudule; each including Vespers and Matins prayer; versicles intermittently underlined 3r - 8v Calendar Januarius habet dies xxxi.luna.xxx Originally 1/4 filled, affiliations with Artois indicated; completely filled by early additions of several hands: graded in red and brown ink, feasts dating before 1472 CE (verified feast dates confirmed by Michel Huglo), emphasis on Franciscan saints with inclusion of Augustinian hermit saints; feasts of note include: William (Feb. 9, Augustinian hermit), Anthony of Padua (Feb. 15, Franciscan, Translation), Dedication of St. Vaast, Arras (Feb. 21, "Preueniens cathedram dat tardius alle. vocare," "duplex minus"), Catherine of Siena (Apr. 30, Dominican, ca. 1461 CE), Bernardinus (May 17 + octave, "bernardini," Franciscan can. 1450), Bernardinus (May 20, "bernardini confessoris de ordine minorum," Translations, inst. 1472; see May 17), Francis (May 25, Translations; see Oct. 4), Nicholas of Tolentino (Sept. 10, "& confessoris ordinis heremitarum," Augustinian hermit, ca. 1446), Francis (Sept. 17, "De Stigmatibus...," Stigmatization; cf. May 25, Oct. 4), Francis (Oct. 4, "Natale Sancti francisci confessoris ordinis minorum," "duplex minus"; cf. May 25, Sept. 17), Louis of Toulouse (Nov. 8, Translation, Franciscan), Dedication of Basilica of St. John in Lateran, Rome (Nov. 9, "Dedicacio basilice saluatoris," "duplex minus") 9r - 185v Temporale: First Advent Sunday through fourth Sunday in November In nomine domini nostri ihesu xriste et beate marie virginis [. . .] Incipit breviarium secundum consuetudinem romane curie Sabbato primo adventus domini Ad vesperas capitulum. Fratres scientes quia hora est iam nos de sompno Fol. 9r: first Sunday in Advent, Vespers capitulary; fol. 29r: Christmas, Vespers antiphon; fol. 47r: Epiphany vigils, Lauds capitulary; fol. 119r: Easter, Matins invitatory; fol. 136v: Ascension vigils, Vespers capitulary; fol. 142r: Pentecost vigils, Vespers capitulary; fol. 147r: Trinity vigils, Vespers antiphon; fol. 149v: Corpus Christi, Vespers antiphon; fol. 185: blank; fol 186r: hymn for Sunday Nocturn in liturgical year 186r - 257r Ferial Psalter Eight partite, with hymns, antiphons, capitularies, and versicles 257r - 258r Three Canticles Benedictine omnia opera 258r - 260r Litany, petitions, and collects Kyrie eleison Fols. 258r-259r: Litany, mostly Roman use, sixteen apostles/"ewangeliste"/disciples/innocents: Peter to Mark; eight listings for martyrs (three of which cite pairs); seven popes/confessors/doctors; eight monks/hermits/priests/levites, including Paul hermit, Anthony, Benedict, Bernard, Francis, Dominic, Leonard, and William; fifteen female saints, including Gertrude, Ursula and companions, Anne, Clare, and Elizabeth; fols. 259r-v: petitions, cues to invocations and to Psalm 69; fols. 259v-260r: nine collects, abbreviated headings of "Oracio" after the first 260v - 263v Office of the Dead, for the use of Rome Incipit officium mortuorum Placebo domino in regione vivorum 263r - 265v Eight liturgical tables concerning Advent and Sunday offices of movable feasts Tabula adventus primum & Tabula de dominicis vacantibus In anno illo in quo nativitas 266r - 285v Common of Saints In natale apostolorum ad vesperas capitulum Fratres iam non estis hospites Fol. 285r-v: blank 286r - 421v Sanctorale, St. Saturninus to St. Catherine Incipiunt festivitates sanctorum per circulum tocius anni in de sancto saturnino martyris oratio Deus qui nos beati Saturnini martyris Selected feasts emphasized by accompaniment of illuminated initial: fol. 286r: Saturninus; fol. 303r: Purification of the Virgin; fol. 312v: Several Martyrs or One Martyr; fol. 332v: John the Baptist; fol. 337v: Peter and Paul; fol. 342v: Visitation; fol. 359r: Lawrence; fol. 367v: Assumption of the Virgin; fol. 400v: All Saints; Franciscan association indicated on: fols. 324r-328v: Nine-lesson offices for St. Anthony of Padua; fols. 391r-397r: St. Francis; fols. 412r-415r: Dedication of the church headed, "In dedicatione ecclesie. . . cap."; fols. 415r-417r: Hours of the Virgin, three lesson, concluding Advent office, headed: "Incipit cursus beate marie gloriose. . ." explicit, last four words underlined in red ink Fols. 418v-421v: blank, ruled for 2-column text

Thin to medium-weight, highly prepared and carefully selected parchment; front and back flyleaves are wove paper, probably nineteenth-century

 Foliation: iii+421+bis+iii12.2 8.6 8.3 5.9 One folio was missed during foliation, so it is indicated here as "bis"

Quire 1: 8 (fols. 1-8); Quires 2-18: 10, including fol. 141bis (fols. 9-177); Quire 19: 8 (fols. 178-185); Quires 20-40: 10 (fols. 186-395); Quire 41: 8 (fols. 396-403); Quire 42: 10 (fols. 404-413); Quire 43: 8 (fols. 414-421) In two alphabetical sequences: first sequence mostly cropped, at lower right; second sequence beginning on fol. 186, centered, mostly cropped, in different hand; examples of ".d." and ".h." series on fols. 220r, 257r Beginning on fol. 18, two or more words often extant, in text hand, centered high in lower margin; written in pale-brown ink; include rubricated letter or words for opening word on next recto; some embellishment of modest penwork at cardinal points

Ruled in pale rose ink, occasionally in lead; layout does not apply to calendar: five columns of 32 lines Written in textura; calendar filled by early additions of several hands Written in textura One historiated initial on fol. 29r One historiated initial on fol. 186r One historiated initial on fol. 391r Three historiated initials; decorated illuminated initials on opening pages of major divisions, in gold; decorated illuminated initials at liturgical divisions (6-9 lines); painted initials at secondary text divisions: alternately red and blue (2-3 lines); borders on pages with historiated initials and on opening page; rubrics in red, text in dark brown ink Initial "R," with Nativity-Adoration Temporale: Christmas Vespers Historiated initial "R," 8 lines Initial "B," with King David penitent Ferial Psalter: Psalm 1 Historiated initial "B," 8 lines Initial "F," with St. Francis displaying stigmata Sanctorale: Office of St. Francis, Vespers vigils Historiated initial "F," 9 lines

Rebound in Belgium or France in first quarter of the nineteenth century; straight grain red leather sewn on three recessed boards; glued-on endbands of red and white; gilt edges with gauffered diamond design

 1460-70 CE West Flanders (?) Created for monastic use, ca. 1460-70; illumination of in similar manner to the followers of Willem Vrelant; affiliation with St. Vaast in Arras indicated in calendar; Franciscan association evinced in added calendar entries and decoration Owned in Belgium, probably in the sixteenth century Rebound in the first quarter of the nineteenth century; "412" written thereafter in ink on back flyleaf i, in top right-hand corner Ludwig Rosenthal, Germany, ca. 1900 Leo. S. Olschki, Florence, rare book dealer; item no. 95 in his catalogue in French, affixed to front flyleaf i, priced "600.-," citing inventory no. "22544"; this number on front pastedown in pencil between "LB XIX 322967" and "B 33 No. 95"/"RH2R 4624" (which has since been crossed out), "Esp 7" Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Leo. S. Olschki between 1900 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. 778, cat. no. 133. Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 3, part 2, Belgium, 1250-1530. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1997; pp. 193-200 (ref. under cat. no. 241, W. 719). 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 Breviary Flemish Book Codex Historiated initial Illumination Manuscript Walters Art Museum Flanders 15th century Liturgy Christian