Walters Ms. W.41, Cologne Psalter-Hours Calendar Prefatory images Gallican Psalter Canticles Litany and collects Hours of the Virgin Office of the Dead Hours of the Holy Spirit Salve Regina Psalter-Hours Principal cataloger Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934 Editor Herbert, Lynley Editor Noel, William Copy editor Bockrath, Diane Contributor Bockrath, Diane Contributor Davis, Lisa Fagin Contributor Dutschke, Consuelo Contributor Emery, Doug Contributor Hamburger, Jeffrey Contributor Klemm, Elizabeth Contributor Noel, William Contributor Sciacca, Christine Contributor Tabritha, Ariel Contributor Toth, Michael B. Contributor Valle, Chiara Conservator Owen, Linda Conservator Quandt, Abigail The Walters Art Museum

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 This Psalter-Hours was made for a Franciscan community in Cologne, Germany, in the late thirteenth century. It is especially notable for its large program of illuminations, which includes roundels in the calendar depicting the labors of the month, two full-page miniatures, fourteen historiated initials, and grotesques perched upon the top of bar borders throughout. It is identical in style to Baltimore, Walters Ms. W.111, and both are related to the style of Liège manuscripts of the 1280s-90s. They are also considered to be stylistic precursors of works by Johannes von Valkenburg, such as two graduals he created for Franciscans in Cologne in 1299 (Cologne, Diözesan Bibliothek Ms. 1B and Bonn, Universitätsbibliothek Ms. 384). Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.41 The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is German, Middle High (ca.1050-1500). 1r - 342v Psalter-Hours 2r - 7v Calendar Januarius Calendar for Franciscan Use; half full, graded in red and black; notable for Franciscan feasts, including Translation of St. Francis (May 25), St. Anthony of Padua (June 13), St. Clara (Aug. 12), and Birth of St. Francis (Oct. 4) 8v - 9v Prefatory images 10v - 226v Gallican Psalter Beatus vir Divisions at eight Psalms for the liturgical week (Psalms 1, 26, 38, 52, 68, 80, 97, and 109), with additional divisions at Psalms 51 and 101 226v - 247v Canticles Cantica moysi Confitebor tibi Domine 247v - 256r Litany and collects Lettania Kyrie eleison Franciscan saints included as in calendar, i.e. SS. Francis and Clara 257r - 294v Hours of the Virgin Dit ist unser Vrowen metene Domine labia mea aperies Rubric for matins in German; rest of manuscript in Latin 295r - 330v Office of the Dead Incipiunt vigilie mortuorum Placebo 331r - 341r Hours of the Holy Spirit De sancto spiritu Sancti spiritus assit nobis gracia Office preceded by the first line of Psalm 101 (one of the Seven Penitential Psalms) 341r - 341v Salve Regina Salve Regina misericordie Text added to blank parts of folio in the seventeenth century

Cream-colored parchment, thin to medium thickness

 Foliation: i+342+i10.9 7.7 7.3 5.0 Foliated in 1937 in pencil in upper right corners of rectos; two flyleaves; first and last folios blank but integral to the first and last quires, therefore foliated

i, 1(12,-1,10), 2-15(12), 16(10), 17-19(12), 20(12,-1), 21-29(12), i None None Quires begin on fols. 1(1), 11(2), 22(3), 34(4), 46(5), 58(6), 70(7), 82(8), 94(9), 106(10), 118(11), 130(12), 142(13), 154(14), 166(15), 178(16), 188(17), 200(18), 212(19), 224(20), 235(21), 247(22), 259(23), 271(24), 283(25), 295(26), 307(27), 319(28), 331(29)

 Ruled in brown ink; layout does not apply to calendar Written in Gothic bookhand Roundels with the labors of the month on each folio, sometimes cropped Full-page miniatures on fols. 8v and 9v Full-page historiated initial on fol. 10v; historiated initials on fols. 43v, 65v, 84v, 85v, 105v, 131r, 153v, 156v, and 178r Small historiated initial on fol. 226v Historiated initials on fols. 257r and 285r Historiated initial on fol. 295r Historiated initial on fol. 331r Two full-page miniatures; one full-page historiated initial; twelve large historiated initials (7-8 lines high); two small historiated initials (4-5 lines high); calendar containing twelve medallions (8 lines high) and KL monograms in gold; images mainly in rose and blue against burnished gold grounds; Psalm incipits beginning with decorated initials in gold (3 lines high) with bar borders on rose and blue grounds with white penwork; single grotesques on tops of bar borders and initial tails; red or blue capitals beginning each sentence; rubrics in red; text in black ink Labor for January: hooded man feasting, stoking fire Calendar: January Roundel, 8 lines Labor for February: man pruning vines Calendar: February Roundel, 8 lines Labor for March: man hoeing Calendar: March Roundel, 8 lines Labor for April: man with flowering branches Calendar: April Roundel, 8 lines Labor for May: falconer Calendar: May Roundel, 8 lines Labor for June: young man picking flowers Calendar: June Roundel, 8 lines Labor for July: man with scythe Calendar: July Roundel, 8 lines Labor for August: man with sickle Calendar: August Roundel, 8 lines Labor for September: man trampling grapes in tub Calendar: September Roundel, 8 lines Labor for October: sower Calendar: October Roundel, 8 lines Labor for November: man carrying dead hog on his back Calendar: November Roundel, 8 lines Labor for December: man butchering hog Calendar: December Roundel, 8 lines Annunciation Full-page miniature Crucifixion Full-page miniature Initial "B" with Ascension and Pentecost Psalm 1 Historiated initial "B," full-page

The inscription on the image reads "[B]eatus vir," or "Blessed is the man."

 Initial "D" with David pointing to his eyes below the face of God Psalm 26 Historiated initial "D," 7 lines Initial "D" with a pilgrim below the face of God Psalm 38 Historiated initial "D," 7 lines Initial "Q" with a seated king holding a sword and orb Psalm 51 Historiated initial "Q," 7 lines Initial "D" with a fool below the face of God Psalm 52 Historiated initial "D," 7 lines Initial "S" with Christ blessing and David in the sea Psalm 68 Historiated initial "S," 7 lines Initial "E" with David playing bells Psalm 80 Historiated initial "E," 7 lines Initial "C" with two clerics singing Psalm 97 Historiated initial "C," 7 lines Initial "D" with David pointing to the mouth below the face of God Psalm 101 Historiated initial "D," 7 lines Initial "D" with Christ enthroned blessing Psalm 109 Historiated initial "D," 7 lines Initial "C" with Noli me tangere Canticles Historiated initial "C," 4 lines Initial "D" with Virgin and Child enthroned Hours of the Virgin: matins Historiated initial "D," 7 lines Initial "D" with Deposition Hours of the Virgin: vespers Historiated initial "D," 5 lines Initial "D" with Bosom of Abraham Office of the Dead Historiated initial "D," 7 lines Initial "S" with Pentecost Hours of the Holy Spirit Historiated initial "S," 8 lines

Sixteenth- or seventeenth-century boards (possibly beech) re-covered in the nineteenth century with now worn red velvet, probably by Gruel; eighteenth- or nineteenth-century clasps, crudely reattached

 Late 13th century CE Cologne, Germany Made for the Franciscan community in Cologne, Germany, late thirteenth century (calendar and litany contain many Franciscan saints) Léon Gruel collection no. 1128, Paris, late nineteenth or early twentieth century (bookplate on inside upper board) Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired from Gruel before 1931 Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest Relevant Works De Ricci, Seymour. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935, p. 770, no. 82. Oliver, Judith. "The Mosan Origins of Johannes von Valkenburg." Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch 40 (1978): 23-37, figs. 8, 10 (fols. 10v, 43v). Oliver, Judith. "The French Gothic Style in Cologne: Manuscripts before Johannes von Valkenburg." In Miscellanea Neerlandica: Opstellen voor Dr. Jan Deschamps ter Gelegenheid van Zijn Zeventigste Verjaardag. Leuven, Netherlands: E. Peeters, 1987, pp. 381-396. Oliver, Judith. Gothic Manuscript Illumination in the Diocese of Liège (ca. 1250-ca. 1330). Vols. 1-2. Leuven, Netherlands: Uitgeverij Peeters, 1988, p. 176 (vol. 1), pl. 179 (vol. 2). 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 Binding 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 Liturgical Devotional Scriptural Theological Legal Historical Scientific Scientific -- Medical Literary -- Prose Literary -- Poetry Philosophical Astrological Sufi English Book Christian Codex Illumination Manuscript Medallion Miniature Scripture Walters Art Museum German Gothic Devotion Psalter-Hours Germany Grotesques Historiated initial 13th century