Walters Ms. W.39, Book of Hours Calendar Hours of the Holy Spirit Hours of the Virgin Seven Penitential Psalms Fifteen Gradual Psalms Litany Book of Hours Principal cataloger Randall, Lilian M.C. Cataloger Dennis, Nathan S Editor Herbert, Lynley Copy editor Dibble, Charles Contributor Brown, Emily Contributor Emery, Doug Contributor Izer, Emily Contributor Noel, William Contributor Schuele, Allyson 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 likely produced for a member of the Augustinian Collegiate Church of Saint-Pierre at Lille along the Flemish-French border. The patron may have had himself depicted in the opening initial for the Penitential Psalms on fol. 125r, shown kneeling before an altar in prayer with hands extended to heaven, from which God emerges in a cloud, blessing the man and carrying a black book. A significant number of feast days in the calendar are devoted to saints venerated in Lille, and the proximity of St. Peter to the Virgin in the Pentecost historiated initial on fol. 13r may further suggest a connection to Saint-Pierre at Lille. Historiated and inhabited initials, drolleries, and vignettes are painted simply with dark outlines to delineate forms. Decorated initials and marginal ornament combine a calligraphic elegance with bold outlines that ultimately circumscribe the ornament. The ivory plaque depicting the Coronation of the Virgin below a trefoil Gothic arch was inserted into the front cover in the nineteenth century, although the ivory itself dates to the fourteenth century and was carved in either Flanders or Germany. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.39 The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is French, Old (842-ca.1400). 1r - 158v Book of Hours 1v - 12v Calendar Li premiers jours deien iiier est deues et li .vii. alefin Jenviers a trente et .i. jour et le lune trente Calendar one third to half full, graded in red and black; Egyptian verses appear on lines 1-2; numerous saints in the calendar associated with Lille: Innocentius (Jan. 21), Aldegund (Jan. 30), Peter (Feb. 22), Albinus (Mar. 1), Vindicianus (Mar. 11), Richard (Apr. 26), Pudentiana (May 18), Eligius and Vindicianus (June 25), Thomas (July 3), Bertin (July 16), Peter (Aug. 1), Apostle Stephen (Aug. 3), Martyr Stephen (Aug. 4), Géry (Aug. 11), Humbert (Sept. 6), Remigius and Piatus (Oct. 1), Dionysius (Oct. 9), Amatus (Oct. 19), Quintinus (Oct. 26), Martin (Nov. 2), Brictius (Nov. 13), Gentianus (Dec. 2), and Nicasius (Dec. 14) 13r - 50v Hours of the Holy Spirit Domine labia mea aperies 51r - 124v Hours of the Virgin ...[iu]bilemus ei. Ave Maria, gratia plena dominus tecum. Initial folios of the Hours of the Virgin, beginning with Matins and the incipit "Domine labia mea aperies," are missing; incipit to Lauds on fol. 50r begins imperfectly 125r - 143v Seven Penitential Psalms VII psalmi Domine ne in furore tuo 144r - 148v Fifteen Gradual Psalms Psalmi Ad dominum cum tribularer 148v - 153r Litany Letania Benedicat te dominus ex Sion

Thin to medium-weight calfskin, prepared carefully, and trimmed at the fore-edge, sometimes carelessly, as evinced in the Calendar where the initials "KL" or the numerals listing feast days are sometimes cropped

 Foliation: iii+158+iii9.0 6.0 5.0 2.5

Front flyleaves: iii ; Quire 1: 5 singletons (fols. 1-5); Quire 2: 8, lacking eighth folio (fols. 6-12); Quires 3-5: 8 (fols. 13-36); Quire 6: 8, lacking fifth folio (fols. 37-43); Quire 7: 8, lacking fourth folio (fols. 44-50); Quire 8: 8, lacking first folio (fols. 51-57); Quire 9: 8 (fols. 58-65); Quire 10: 8, lacking second folio (fols. 66-72); Quire 11: 8 (fols. 73-80); Quire 12: 8, lacking fourth folio (fols. 81-87); Quires 13-14: 8 (fols. 88-103); Quire 15: 8, lacking fifth folio (fols. 104-110); Quires 16-21: 8 (fols. 111-158); Back flyleaves: iii None None

Textura Eleven vignettes; "KL" in upper-left corner of each month, gilded, against blue ground with white and red ornament Six large historiated initials, fols. 13r, 24r, 30r, 33r, 36r, and 39r, with accompanying marginal drolleries Four large historiated initials fols. 91r, 96v, 102r, and 118r, with accompanying marginal drolleries Historiated initial fol. 125r with accompanying marginal drollery Historiated initial fol. 144r with accompanying marginal drollery Large decorated initial fol. 148v Eleven vignettes in the Calendar; thirteen principal historiated initials of biblical or devotional scenes (5-6 lines); secondary historiated initials with male and female faces or inhabited with creatures (2 lines); decorated initials at secondary and tertiary textual divisions (1-2 lines); marginal drolleries on folios with principal historiated initials; decorated marginal and intertextual bands throughout; rubrics in red; text in black ink Janus-faced man dining Calendar: January Marginal miniature Man warming himself by a fire Calendar: February Marginal miniature Man pruning a tree Calendar: March Marginal miniature Man holding orange blossoms Calendar: April Marginal miniature Falconer riding a horse Calendar: May Marginal miniature Man plowing a field Calendar: June Marginal miniature Man harvesting with a scythe Calendar: July Marginal miniature Man harvesting wheat with a sickle Calendar: August Marginal miniature Man harvesting fruit from a tree Calendar: September Marginal miniature Man harvesting acorns for two pigs Calendar: October Marginal miniature Man slaughtering an ox Calendar: November Marginal miniature Initial "D" with Pentecost; marginal drollery of a man battling an ape Hours of the Holy Spirit: Matins Historiated initial "D," 5 lines; marginal drollery Initial "D" with the Betrayal of Christ; drollery of a crane, falconer, and dragon Hours of the Holy Spirit: Lauds Historiated initial "D," 6 lines; marginal drollery Initial "D" with Resurrection; marginal drollery of an ape pointing Hours of the Holy Spirit: Sext Historiated initial "D," 6 lines; marginal drollery Initial "D" with 3 Marys at the Tomb of Christ; marginal drollery of a bird and anthropomorphic creatures Hours of the Holy Spirit: None Historiated initial "D," 6 lines; marginal drollery Initial "D" with scene of Noli me tangere; marginal drollery of a man with sword and shield and a dragon Hours of the Holy Spirit: Vespers Historiated initial "D," 6 lines; marginal drollery Initial "D" with the Flagellation; marginal drollery of a bird Hours of the Holy Spirit: Prime Historiated initial "D," 6 lines; marginal drollery Initial "D" with the Annunciation to the Shepherds; marginal drollery of a dragon Hours of the Virgin: Terce Historiated initial "D," 6 lines; marginal drollery Initial "D" with the Adoration of the Magi; marginal drollery of a man shooting an arrow at a bird Hours of the Virgin: Sext Historiated initial "D," 6 lines; marginal drollery Initial "D" with Presentation in the Temple; marginal drollery of a Jew holding a basket and stick Hours of the Virgin: None Historiated initial "D," 6 lines; marginal drollery Initial "C" with Flight into Egypt; marginal drollery of a woman holding a spoon and bread-trough Hours of the Virgin: Compline Historiated initial "C," 5 lines; marginal drollery Initial "D" showing a man kneeling before an altar praying, with God descending from a cloud; marginal drollery of a man playing a vielle Seven Penitential Psalms Historiated initial "D," 5 lines; marginal drollery Initial "A" with King David as an orant standing in water, looking up to the hand of God descending from a cloud; marginal drollery of a bird Fifteen Gradual Psalms Historiated initial "A," 5 lines Decorated initial "K" Litany Decorated initial "K," 5 lines

Rebound in Paris with brown morocco by Léon Gruel in the late nineteenth or earl twentieth century; fourteenth-century ivory plaque depicting the Coronation of the Virgin inserted onto upper board; silver spiral-column clasps and fasteners added to fore-edges; gilded line along board edges, with triple lines on inner boards and five pairs of double lines on top and bottom edges of spine; three ribs on spine; pastedowns of red floral-patterned silk

 Ca. 1275-1300 CE Northeastern France or Western Flanders Produced in Northeastern France or Western Flanders for use at the Augustinian Collegiate Church of Saint-Pierre at Lille in the last quarter of the thirteenth century Acquired by Léon Gruel in the nineteenth century; his bookplate with no. 68 appears on the front pastedown Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Léon Gruel between 1895 and 1931 Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest Relevant Works Owens, M. B. "Musical Subjects in the Illumination of Books of Hours from Fifteenth-Century France and Flanders." PhD diss., University of Chicago, 1987: p. 362. 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. 781, cat. no. 156. Diringer, David. The Illuminated Book: Its History and Production. London: Faber and Faber, 1958, p. 381. Miner, Dorothy, ed. Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, 1949, cat. no. 56, pl. 31 (fols. 10v–11r). Randall, Lilian M. C. Images in the Margins of Gothic Manuscripts. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966. Miner, Dorothy. "January in the Middle Ages." Bulletin of the Walters Art Gallery 25, no. 4 (1973): figs. 2–3 (fol. 1v). Wieck, Roger S. Time Sanctified: The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life. New York: George Braziller, 1988, pp. 171–172, cat. no. 3, fig. 37 (f.91r). Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 1. France: 875-1420. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989, pp. 90–93, cat. no. 39. Sterling, Charles. La Peinture Medievale Pari. Lausanne, Switzerland: La bibliotheque des arts, 1990; p. 50. Randall, Richard H., Jr. The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Carvings in North American Collections. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1993, pp. 138–139, cat. no. 212. Higgitt, John. The Murthly Hours: Devotion, Literacy and Luxury in Paris, England, and the Gaelic West. London: British Library, 2000, pp. 178, 182. Bradford Smith, Elizabeth. "Book of Hours with Inset Plaque of Coronation of the Virgin." In Medieval Art in America: Patterns of Collecting: 1800-1940. Exhibition Catalogue. Palmer Museum of Art. Edited by Elizabeth Bradford Smith et al, 154-155. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996; pp. 154-155, cat. no. 37. Stones, Alison. "Stylistic Associations, Evolution, and Collaboration." The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal: 23 (1995): 11-29; p. 27 (n. 32 for p. 21). Bennett, Adelaide. "Making Literate Lay Women Visible: Text and Image in French and Flemish Books of Hours, 1220-1320." In Thresholds of Medieval Visual Culture: Liminal Spaces, edited by Elina Gertsman and Jill Stephenson, 125-158. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2012; p. 131. 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