Walters Ms. W.427, Book of Hours Calendar Suffrage to the Holy Face Hours of the Cross Hours of the Holy Spirit Mass of the Virgin Gospel Sequences Hours of the Virgin Advent Office of the Virgin Seven Penitential Psalms Litany, petitions, and collects Office of the Dead Devotional sequence Book of Hours Principal cataloger Randall, Lilian M.C. Cataloger Ransom, Allison Editor Herbert, Lynley Copy editor Dibble, Charles Contributor Emery, Doug Contributor Herbert, Lynley 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 manuscript was created ca. 1500 in Bruges or Ghent, and was influenced by the Master of the Prayerbooks, the Master of the Dresden Prayerbook, and the Master of the David Scenes in the Grimani breviary. It was likely made for a female patron with Franciscan affinity, as suggested by the contents of the calendar. The book is heavily illuminated with nineteen miniatures, marginalia on pages without miniatures, and twenty-four calendar illuminations, the latter including zodiac signs paired with illustrations of the labors of the month. Miniatures show detailed interior spaces with Renaissance architectural elements and proportional figures. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.427 The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. 1r - 219v Book of Hours 2v - 14r Calendar Januarius habet dies xxxi Luna xxx. Contents suggest Bruges; saints of note include Pontianus (Jan. 14, Utrecht), Felix (Mar. 22), Maximus (Apr. 14), Servatius (May 14), Dignus (May 15), Bernardinus (May 20, Franciscan), Erasmus (Jun. 3), Godeleva (Jul. 6), Adrian (Sept. 7), Bavo (Oct. 1, Ghent and Bruges), Maclovius (Nov. 15), Lucy and Jodocus (Dec. 13) 15v - 17v Suffrage to the Holy Face Ad salutandum faciem Iesu Christi Salve sancta facies 18v - 25v Hours of the Cross Incipiunt hore sancte crucis. Ad matutinas. Domine labia mea 26v - 32v Hours of the Holy Spirit Incipiunt hore de sancto spiritu Domine labia mea 33r - 38v Mass of the Virgin Incipiunt missa beate Marie virginis Introibo ad altare dei 39r - 47r Gospel Sequences Initium sancti evvangelii secundum johannem. Gloria tivi domine 48v - 121v Hours of the Virgin Incipiunt hore beate marie virginis secundum usum romanum. Ad matutinas. Domine labia mea 122v - 132r Advent Office of the Virgin Incipit officium beate marie. Quod dicitur per totum adventum. Ad vesperas. 133v - 146v Seven Penitential Psalms Incipiunt septem psalmus antiphona 146v - 157v Litany, petitions, and collects Incipit letania sanctorum Fols. 146v-154v: Litany, including sixteen apostles, evangelists, and innocents from Peter to Mark; thirteen martyrs, including Gervasius and Prothasius paired, Erasmus, and Blasius; twelve monks, hermits, priests, and levites, including Nicholas, Louis, Dominic, Francis, Anthony, Bernardinus, Louis; eleven virgins, widows, and "continentes," including Anne, Mary Magdalene, Catherine, Agnes, Lucy, Cecilia, Agatha, Barbara, Margaret, Claire and Elizabeth; fols. 149v-154v: petitions, eleven versicles and responses; fols. 154v-157v: seven collects, each headed "Oratio" 158v - 205v Office of the Dead Incipiunt vigilie mort. a. ps. Placebo 206r - 218r Devotional sequence Oratio beate marie virginis Obsecro te Fols. 206r-213v: Two prayers to the Virgin: Obsecro te (fols. 206r-210v) and O intemerata (fols. 210v-213v); fols. 214r-218r: Athanasian creed

Highly prepared and selected parchment; back flyleaf i is modern parchment

 Foliation: ii+219+ii9.4 6.5 4.8 3.3

Quire 1: 8, with first and second folios canceled (fols. 1-6); Quire 2: 8 (fols. 7-14); Quire 3: 10, with first and fourth folios added (fols. 15-24); Quire 4: 9, with first folio added (fols. 25-33); Quire 5: 8 (fols. 34-41); Quire 6: 9, with seventh folio added (fols. 42-50); Quire 7-8: 8 (fols. 51-66); Quire 9: 9, with third folio added (fols. 67-75); Quire 10: 9, with eighth folio added (fols. 76-84); Quire 11: 9, with fifth folio added (fols. 85-93); Quire 12: 10, with second and seventh folio added (fols. 94-103); Quire 13: 9, with third folio added (fols. 104-112); Quire 14: 9, with third folio added (fols. 113-121); Quire 15: 14, with first and twelfth folios added (fols. 122-135); Quires 16-17: 8 (fols. 136-151); Quire 18: 9, with seventh folio added (fols. 152-160); Quires 19-25: 8 (fols. 161-216); Quire 26: 3, with third folio added (fols. 217-219)

Layout does not apply to calendar: written space 5.2 x 3.4 cm; 4 columns of 17 lines; text including calendar ruled in pale rose ink Probably different hand than rest of book Written in gotica rotunda Small miniatures on fols. 2v, 3r, 3v, 4r, 4v, 5r, 5v, 6r, 6v, 7r, 7v, 8r, 8v, 9r, 9v, 10r, 10v, 11r, 11v, 12r, 12v, 13r, 13v, and 14r Full-page miniature on fol. 15v Full-page miniature on fol. 18v Full-page miniature on fol. 26v surrounded by border with inscribed scrolls "Veni sancte spiritus," "Reple tuorum corda," and "spiritu"; border on 27r with inscribed scrolls "Reple tuorum corda" and "fndeli" Small miniatures on fols. 39r, 41r, 43r, and 46r Full-page miniatures on fols. 48v, 69v, 83v, 89v, 95v, 100v, 106v, and 115v Full-page miniature on fol. 122v Full-page miniature on fol. 133v Full-page miniature on fol. 158v surrounded by border with inscribed scrolls "Memento morieris," "Cogita mortem," and "Respice finem"; border on fol. 159r with inscribed scrolls "Mors" and "Respice finem" Full-page miniature on fol. 206r Twenty-four small miniature calendar illustrations (2.1 x 2.1 cm); nineteen full-page miniatures (9 lines); decorated illuminated initials at text openings (5 lines) and at "K L" in calendar (3 lines); borders at major text openings; drolleries throughout on pages without borders; rubrics in red; text in brown ink Man before fire Calendar: January Small miniature Aquarius Calendar: January Small miniature Man pruning espalier tree on house Calendar: February Small miniature Pisces Calendar: February Small miniature Man plowing Calendar: March Small miniature Aries Calendar: March Small miniature Shepherd tending to five sheep Calendar: April Small miniature Taurus Calendar: April Small miniature Lute player and woman in boat Calendar: May Small miniature Gemini Calendar: May Small miniature Man shearing sheep Calendar: June Small miniature Cancer Calendar: June Small miniature Man scything Calendar: July Small miniature Leo Calendar: July Small miniature Man reaping with sickle Calendar: August Small miniature Virgo Calendar: August Small miniature Man sowing seeds Calendar: September Small miniature Libra Calendar: September Small miniature Man stomping grapes with companion bringing more Calendar: October Small miniature Scorpio Calendar: October Small miniature Man with mallet about to stun ox held by companion Calendar: November Small miniature Sagittarius Calendar: November Small miniature Man slitting pig's throat with woman catching blood in pan Calendar: December Small miniature Capricorn Calendar: December Small miniature Salvator mundi Suffrage to the Holy Face Full-page miniature Crucifixion with thieves Hours of the Cross Full-page miniature Pentecost Hours of the Holy Spirit Full-page miniature St. John on Patmos and vision of Apocalyptic seven-headed beast Gospel sequences Small miniature St. Luke in study, writing at desk Gospel sequences Small miniature St. Matthew writing in study Gospel sequences Small miniature St. Mark in study Gospel sequences Small miniature Annunciation Hours of the Virgin: Matins Full-page miniature Visitation Hours of the Virgin: Lauds Full-page miniature Nativity-Adoration Hours of the Virgin: Prime Full-page miniature Annunciation to the shepherds Hours of the Virgin: Terce Full-page miniature Adoration of the Magi Hours of the Virgin: Sext Full-page miniature Presentation in the Temple Hours of the Virgin: None Full-page miniature Massacre of the Innocents Hours of the Virgin: Vespers Full-page miniature Flight into Egypt Hours of the Virgin: Compline Full-page miniature Coronation of the Virgin by Christ Advent of the Virgin Full-page miniature Bathsheba observed by David Seven Penitential Psalms Full-page miniature Raising of Lazarus Office of the Dead Full-page miniature Pietà Devotional Sequence: Obsecro te Miniature

Nineteenth- or twentieth-century re-binding from France by Léon Gruel; worn crimson velvet; rounded spine; white edgebead on endbands; gilt edges pre-Gruel

 Ca. 1500 CE Bruges Created ca. 1500 CE in either Bruges or Ghent most likely for a female patron Léon Gruel, Paris bookbinder and bookseller, late nineteenth or early twentieth century Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel between 1895 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. 807, cat. no. 316. D. Diringer, The Illuminated Book: Its History and Production, revised edition, New York, 1967, p. 448 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. 724-725. W. Cahn and J. Marrow, "Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at Yale: A Selection," Yale University Library Gazette, 1978, ref. under no. 78: Beinecke 287 H. Wolf, Kostbarkeiten flamischer Buchmalerei, Berlin, 1985, p. 36, fig. 43 B. A. Shailor, Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, Binghampton, N.Y., 1987, p. 61 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. 471. 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. 480-486, cat. no. 290; figs. 541-543, pl. XLIIIb “Table of Contents.” Calligraphy Review 9/1 (1991): 1-3; p. 2 (illus. of Flight into Egypt). As-Vijvers, Margaret W. “More than Marginal Meaning? The interpretation of Ghent-Bruges Border Decoration.” Oud-Holland‬: tijdschrift voor Nederlandse kunstgeschiedenis‬ 116 (2003): 3-33; pp. 12 (fig. 8), 29, 30, 32. ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ Marrow, James H. “Book of Hours in Latin: Flanders (Bruges), Use of Rome, ca. 1500. NYPL MA 118.” In The Splendor of the Word: Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts at the New York Public Library. Edited by Jonathan J.G. Alexander, James H. Marrow, and Lucy Freeman Sandler, 292-295. NY: New York Public Library (2005); p. 295 (ref. under cat. no. 65). 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 Christian Flemish Book Codex Grotesques Illumination Manuscript Miniature Ornament Painting Walters Art Museum Flanders 15th century 16th century Devotion