Walters Ms. W.423, Book of Hours (for use of Rome) Calendar Hours of the Cross Hours of the Holy Spirit Mass of the Virgin Hours of the Virgin Advent Office of the Virgin Seven Penitential Psalms Litany, petitions and collects Office of the Dead Prayer to the Virgin Psalter of St. Jerome Book of Hours Principal cataloger Randall, Lilian M.C. Cataloger Ransom, Allison Editor Herbert, Lynley Copy editor Dibble, Charles Contributor Emery, Doug Contributor Herbold, Rebekah Contributor Noel, William Contributor Tabritha, Ariel Contributor Toth, Michael B. Contributor Wiegand, Kimber The Walters Art Museum

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 This Book of Hours was created by an associate of the Master of the Dresden Prayerbook in either Ghent or Bruges ca. 1500-1510. There is an allusion to a possible patron through reference to a deceased female named "N" in Office of the Dead. Due to the fragile state of the illuminations, it was only possible to digitize the exterior of this manuscript. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.423 The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. 1r - 213v Book of Hours 1r - 12v Calendar Januarius habet dies xxxi Calendar less than half full; contents particular to Bruges and contain Franciscan saints; feasts and saints of note include: Annunciation (Mar. 25), Valerius (Apr. 17), Bernardinus (May 20, of Siena, Franciscan), John I (May 27, pope 523-526 CE), Anthony of Padua (Jun. 13, Franciscan), Basil (Jun. 14), Mary and Martha (Jul. 30), Rochus (Aug. 16), Assumption of the Virgin (Aug. 15), Bavo and Remigius (Oct. 1), Donatian (Oct. 14) Scribal error in Annunciation (Mar. 25): misidentified "Assumptio bea/te marie virginis" 13r - 18v Hours of the Cross Incipiunt hore sancte crucis. Ad matutinas. 19r - 24v Hours of the Holy Spirit Incipiunt hore sancte crucis. Ad matutinas. Same heading as Hours of the Cross due to scribal error 25r - 32v Mass of the Virgin Incipit missa beate marie virginis. Introitus. Salve sancta parens puerpera regem 33r - 114v Hours of the Virgin Incipiunt hore beate Marie virginis secundum usum Romanum. Ad matutinas. 115r - 127r Advent Office of the Virgin Incipit officium beate marie virginis quod dicitur per totum adventum. Ad vesperas. 128r - 144r Seven Penitential Psalms Incipiunt septem psalmi penitentiales. Antiphona. 144r - 152v Litany, petitions and collects Letania sanctorum Fols. 144r-147r: Litany, including few regional saints; sixteen apostles and evangelists from Peter to Mark; eleven martyrs, including Cosmas, Damian, Gervasius, Prothasius and Christopher; ten confessors, monks and hermits, including Leonard, Bernard, Francis, Dominic, and Bernardinus; twelve virgins and widows, including Mary Magdalene, Mary Egyptian, Ursula and Martha; fols. 147r-150r: petitions, invocations and psalm 69; fols. 150r-151v: "'Preces'. Salvos fac seruos tuos et ancillas tuas deus meus sperantes in te"; fols. 151v-152v: four collects, headed "oratio" 153r - 194v Office of the Dead Incipiunt vigilie mortuorum. Antiphona. Fols. 157v-158v: Three collects at the end of Vespers, headed "Oratio", cites "N." for name of deceased female: "Deus qui nos patrem et matrem honorare precepisti ... Quesumus domine pro tua pietate miserere anime famule te .N. et a contagiis ... Fidelium deus omnium conditor ..." 194v - 200v Prayer to the Virgin Devota oratio ad mariam virginem. oratio. Obsecro te domina sancta maria 201r - 213v Psalter of St. Jerome Incipit psalterium sanc... Beatifica domine peccatricem animam meam et concede michi Line 2 of rubric illegible

Very thin parchment, highly prepared; flyleaves thicker than textblock

 Foliation: ii+213+ii7.0 4.6 3.8 2.6

Quire 1: 2, with first folio added, which appears to have remains of possibly removed flyleaves, stubs extant (fols. 1-3); Quire 2: 8, with first folio tipped to the second folio (fols. 4-12); Quire 3: 8, with first and seventh folios added (fols. 13-22); Quire 4: 10, with third folio missing (fols. 23-30); Quire 5: 8, with third folio added (fols. 31-40); Quires 6-7: 8 (fols. 40-55); Quire 8: 8, with fourth folio added (fols. 56-64); Quire 9: 8 (fols. 65-72); Quire 10: 10, with third folio missing (fols. 73-80); Quire 11: 10, with first folio added and eighth folio missing (fols. 81-89); Quire 12: 10, with fourth folio missing and ninth folio added (fols. 90-98); Quire 13: 8 (fols. 99-106); Quire 14: 10, with second folio missing (fols. 107-114); Quire 15: 8, with first folio added (fols. 115-123); Quire 16: 8, with fifth folio added (fols. 124-132); Quires 17-18: 8 (fols. 133-148); Quire 19: 10, with fifth folio missing (fols. 149-156); Quires 20-24: 8 (fols. 157-196); Quire 25: 8, with fifth folio added (fols. 197-205); Quire 26: 8 (fols. 206-213)

Ruled in light brown ink (fols. 14r-47v, 73r-80v and 133r-140v); green ink (fols. 48r-65v, 82r-114v, 140r-213v); pale greenish-brown ink (fols. 115r-132v) Text including calendar written in gotica rotunda in brown ink; final pauses in punctus Full-page miniature on fol. 13r Full-page miniature on fol. 19r Full-page miniature on fol. 33r Full-page miniature on fol. 115r Full-page miniature on fol. 128r Full-page miniature on fol. 128r Nine extant full-page miniatures: fol. 13v: Crucifixion in Hours of the Cross; fol. 19v: Pentecost in Hours of the Holy Spirit; fol. 33v: Annunciation in Hours of the Virgin: Matins; fol. 59v: Visitation in Hours of the Virgin, Lauds; fol. 81v: Annunciation to Shepherds in Hours of the Virgin, Terce; fol. 98v: Massacre of the Innocents in Hours of the Virgin, Vespers; fol. 115v: Members of the Trinity blessing Virgin in Advent Office of the Virgin; fol. 128v: King David penitent in Seven Penitential Psalms; fol. 201v: St. Jerome in penance in Psalter of St. Jerome; decorated illuminated initials at text openings opposite full-page miniatures (5 lines), at secondary text divisions (2 lines); in Versals and in Litany (1 line); at "K L" in calendar (2 lines); illusionistic borders surrounding full-page miniatures, on pages opposite miniatures and at secondary text divisions; line fillers in litany; rubrics in rose; text in brown ink Eloquence triumphing over Force Upper board outside Contentment of Love Lower board outside

Bound in Germany (?) in seventeenth century; silver alloy (.25 mm thick) on top of wooden boards; allegorical theme of Eloquence triumphing over Force on upper board, Contentment of Love on lower board

 1500-1510 CE Ghent or Bruges Created by an associate of the Master of the Dresden Prayerbook in either Ghent or Bruges ca. 1500-1510 CE Rebound possibly in Germany, seventeenth century, by early owner Leo S. Olschki, Florentine bookseller, before 1912, inscription "Horae/32961/not. Cf." in pencil on front pastedown Henry Walters, Baltimore, November 12 1912, purchased from Leo S. Olschki and unpacked by gallery superintendent James C. Anderson 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. 806, cat. no. 308. 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. 722, 726. Owens, M.B., "Musical Subjects in the Illumination of Books of Hours from Fifteenth-Century France and Flanders", Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1987, p. 469. Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 3. Belgium, 1250-1530. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1989; pp. 501-504, cat. no. 293 Brinkmann, Bodo. Die Flamische Buchmalerei Am Ende Des Burgunderreichs. Turnhout; Brepols, 1997; p. 42, Amm. 22. 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 Coptic Scrapbook American United States Maryland Historical Society Friendship book Friendship Biography Judaism Talmud Collection of Sermons Liturgical Devotional Scriptural Theological Legal Historical Scientific Scientific -- Medical Literary -- Prose Literary -- Poetry Philosophical Astrological Sufi English Book of Hours Flemish Binding Codex Illumination Manuscript Miniature Walters Art Museum Flanders 16th century Devotion