Walters Ms. W.47, Psalter-Hours of Brother Guimier Added index Calendar Biblical Psalter Weekly canticles Litany, petitions, and collects Miniature of Thomas Becket Hours of the Holy Spirit, with Hours of the Virgin interspersed Office of the Dead Psalter-Hours Principal cataloger Randall, Lilian M.C. Cataloger Herbert, Lynley Editor Herbert, Lynley Copy editor Dibble, Charles 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 unusually large Psalter-Hours was created in the last quarter of the thirteenth century in the Thérouanne region of northeastern France, considered Flanders at the time. Illuminated throughout with elaborate decorated and historiated initials, the manuscript also contains a single full-page miniature of the martyrdom of Thomas Becket. An emphasis on Augustine in the calendar and litany suggest that the manuscript's original patron may have been associated with an Augustinian foundation, possibly Saint-Augustin-lès-Thérouanne. An inscription dated 1590 indicates that the book was given to Brother Iohannes Guimier by a previous owner, Henricus Iordanus. It was at this time that an alphabetical index, foliation, and notations were added to the manuscript, suggesting that Brother Guimier used it a great deal. The binding, a nineteenth-century fabrication, is adorned with a large medieval champlevé enamel plaque in the Limoges style, which is roughly contemporary with the manuscript. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.47 The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. 1r - 209v Psalter-Hours ff.i,r - ff.ii,v Added index Index of alphabetized Psalms on added folios, late sixteenth century; Arabic numbers correlate with Roman numerals added in contemporary foliation 1r - 6v Calendar Prima dies mensis et septima truncat ut ensis. Januarius habet dies .xxxi. et luna .xxx. Calendar not quite half full; graded in red and black; Egyptian verses begin each month; use in Thérouanne, Saint-Omer, suggested by saints selected; notable saints include Antony (Jan. 17), Vincent (Jan. 22), important feast erased (Feb. 25), Albinus (Mar. 1), Benedict (Mar. 21), Boniface, now erased (June 5), Thomas of Canterbury (July 3, trans.), Martin (July 4, trans.), Benedict (July 11, trans.), Augustine (Aug. 28), important feast, possibly for Bertin, erased (Sept. 5), important feast, possibly for Audomar, erased (Sept. 9), Lambert (Sept. 17), important feast erased (Sept. 25), Remigius, Germanus, Vedastus, and Bavo (Oct. 1), Francis (Oct. 4), Benedicta (Oct. 10), Dionysius (Oct. 9), Donatianus (Oct. 14), Quintinus (Oct. 31), Winnoc, now erased (Nov. 6), Martin (Nov. 11), Brictius (Nov. 13), Clement (Nov. 23), Catherine (Nov. 25), important feast erased, letter "M" remains, possibly for Maximus (Nov. 27), Nicasius (Dec. 14); fourteenth-century obituary added on Mar. 18 "domini lamberte tolneere anno lvi;" Martin added in fifteenth or sixteenth century on Nov. 13 7v - 136r Biblical Psalter Beatus vir Ten-partite Biblical Psalter; divisions at psalms 1, 26, 38, 51, 52, 68, 80, 97, 101, and 109 136r - 148r Weekly canticles Confitebor tibi 148r - 151v Litany, petitions, and collects Kyrieleyson Contents suggest it was made to be used in Thérouanne, Saint-Omer; fols. 148r-149r: litany: fourteen martyrs which include Stephen, Linus, Cletus, Clement, Cornelius, Cyprian, Lawrence, Vincent, Thomas, George, Dionysius, Nicasius, Eustace, and Quintinus; eighteen confessors, which include Leo, Silvester, Gregory, Remigius, Martin, Nicolas, Jerome, Augustine, Bertin, Benedict, Amandus, Audomar, Brictius, Bernard, Winnoc, Francis, Antony, and Dominic; twenty virgins, which include Mary Magdalene, Mary Egyptian, Perpetua, Felicitas, Agnes, Lucy, Brigid, Catherine, Cecilia, Margaret, Petronilla, Elisabeth, Fides, Spes, Karitas, Genevieve, Euphemia, Gertrude, Juliana, and Ursula; fols. 149r-150r: petitions; fols. 150r-151v: fourteen collects 152v - 152v Miniature of Thomas Becket Miniature of the martyrdom of Thomas Becket; inserted bifolium, uncertain relationship with texts 154r - 193v Hours of the Holy Spirit, with Hours of the Virgin interspersed Sancti Spiritus assit nobis gratia. Domine labia mea Fols. 154r-190v: Hours of the Holy Spirit, with canonical divisions interspersed with those of the Hours of the Virgin after lauds; fols. 190v-193v: sequence of prayers 195r - 209r Office of the Dead Placebo domino Dilexi quoniam exaudiet Dominus Use of Thérouanne

Medium to heavy-weight parchment; well finished but darkened from use

 Foliation: iii+209+i32.0 24.0 19.6 13.5 First and last flyleaves are modern parchment; the second and third front flyleaves are sixteenth-century parchment, and were labeled "i" and "ii," so those earlier numbers will be how they are referred to here; several sets of foliation present: late sixteenth-century ink foliation, upper right corners, rectos, present in Psalms and Canticles only; early, incorrect pencil foliation lower right corners, rectos, which has been struck out and replaced after fol. 35 by smaller modern pencil foliation below (used here)

Quire 1: 8, lacking first folio (fols. 1-7); Quire 2-16: 8 (fols. 8-127); Quire 17: 6 (fols. 128-133); Quire 18: 8 (fols. 134-141); Quire 19: 10 (fols. 142-151); Quire 20: 2 (fols. 152-153); Quire 21-25: 8 (fols. 154-192, includes fol. 171bis); Quire 26: 10 (fols. 193-202); Quire 27: 8, with first folio cancelled (fols. 203-209) None Lower right corners, versos, last page of quire

Layout does not apply to calendar: written surface 14.7 x 20.3 cm, seven columns, and thirty-three lines Sixteenth-century hand Written in textura semi-quadrata; several hands identified throughout, with different scribe for calendar, and definite hand change at fol. 154 Full-page historiated initial fol. 7v; historiated initial fol. 106r Historiated initials fols. 154r, 157v, 172v, 176r, 178v, 181r, 183r, and 187r One full-page miniature; one full-page historiated initial; eight historiated initials begin Psalm 109 and each of the Hours of the Holy Spirit (5-7 lines); decorated initials in gold against blue and gold grounds mark major divisions within Psalter and Hours where not marked by historiated initials (5-9 lines); smaller decorated initials for "KL" in calendar (5 lines) and secondary divisions in Psalms and Office of the Dead (2 lines); small flourished initials throughout in alternating blue and gold with red and blue pen trails (1 line); geometric line fillers throughout in red and blue ink; rubrics in red; text in black ink Binding with champlevé enamel plaque of the Crucifixion Binding

Velvet binding is nineteenth-century, but plaque is medieval, dating from the thirteenth or fourteenth century.

 Initial "B" David as king harping, with David and Goliath below Psalm 1 Full-page historiated initial Trinity Psalm 109 Historiated initial "D," 6 lines Martyrdom of Thomas Becket Full-page miniature Initial "D" with the betrayal of Christ Hours of the Holy Spirit: matins Historiated initial "D," 7 lines Initial "D" with Christ being stripped and beaten Hours of the Holy Spirit: prime Historiated initial "D," 6 lines Initial "D" with the Flagellation Hours of the Holy Spirit: terce Historiated initial "D," 6 lines Inmitial "D" with the Carrying of the Cross Hours of the Holy Spirit: sext Historiated initial "D," 6 lines Initial "D" with the Crucifixion Hours of the Holy Spirit: none Historiated initial "D," 6 lines Initial "D" with the Deposition Hours of the Holy Spirit: vespers Historiated initial "D," 6 lines Initial "D" with the Entombment Hours if the Holy Spirit: compline Historiated initial "D," 5 lines

Rebound by Léon Gruel, Paris, late nineteenth or early twentieth century; red velvet with embedded champlevé enamel plaque of the Crucifixion, done in Limoges style, thirteenth or fourteenth century; two fifteenth- or sixteenth-century gilded bronze clasps inscribed "IsMa" in Gothic lettering attached to modern straps; manuscript originally housed in matching Gruel telescopic case with his name stamped in gold (now replaced by modern conservation box)

 Last quarter 13th century CE Northeast France (Flanders at the time) Created in northeastern France (French Flanders) in the last quarter of the thirteenth century, likely for use of Thérouanne; form of collect suggests originally made for male supplicant (fol. 151r) Female supplicant used, fourteenth century, based on change from male to female form in collect (fol. 151r) Obituary added in calendar for March 18 in a fourteenth-century hand "domini lamberti de tolneere anno lvi" Manuscript changed hands as gift in 1590; dated inscription on fol. 1r indicates "dominus Henricus Iordanus" gave the manuscript to "Frater Iohannes Guimier;" notes by latter found on fols. 7r-v, 193v, 195r; date of 1590 and gloss to Psalm 119:129 on fol. 117v, and ink folio and Psalm numeration also in his hand English ownership, second half of nineteenth century; notes and inscriptions in pencil, mostly erased, e.g. fol. 194r, where "v r second of April, 1889" is visible (upside down) Léon Gruel, Paris, late nineteenth or early twentieth century; Gruel and Engelmann bookplate inscribed "No 129" Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel in 1903 Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest Relevant Works De Ricci, S., 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. 770, cat. no. 85. Owens, M.B. "Musical Subjects in the Illumination of Books of Hours from Fifteenth-Century France and Flanders." Ph.D. diss, University of Chicago, 1987: p. 362 (fig. 3). Miner, Dorothy, V.I. Carlson, and P. W. Filby. 2,000 Years of Calligraphy: A Three-Part Exhibition Organized by the Baltimore Museum of Art, Peabody Institute Library, and the Walters Art Gallery, 6 June-18 July 1965. Exhibition Catalogue. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1965; cat. no. 28, illus. of f. 173. Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 1, pt. 1. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989; pp. 93-96, cat. no. 40. Gil, Marc, and Ludovic Nys. Saint-Omer gothique: les arts figuratifs à Saint-Omer à la fin du Moyen Âge, 1250-1550 : peinture, vitrail, sculpture, arts du livre. Valenciennes Cedex: Presses Universitaires deValenciennes, 2004; p. 75. Bennett, Adelaide. "Christ’s Five Wounds in the Aves of the Vita Christi in a Book of Hours about 1300." In Tributes in Honor of James H. Marrow Studies in Painting and Manuscript Illumination of the Late Middle Ages and Northern Renaissance. Edited by Jeffrey F. Hamburger and A.S. Korteweg, 75-84. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2006; p. 79. Ottosen, Knud. The Responsories and Versicles of the Latin Office of the Dead. Norderstedt, Germany: Books on Demand, 2007; pp. viii, 197. Randall, Lilian M.C. "An Early Fourteenth-Century Psalter from East Anglia." In Tributes to Lucy Freeman Sandler: Studies in Illuminated Manuscripts. Edited by Kathryn A. Smith and Carol H. Krinksy, 219-233. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2007;. p. 226 (n. 42). Clark, Robert L.A., and Pamela Sheingorn. "Rewriting Joseph in the Life of Christ." In The Pèlerinage Allegories of Guillaume de Deguileville: Tradition, Authority, and Influence. Edited by Marco Nievergelt and Stephanie A. Viereck Gibbs Kamath, 65-90. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2013; p. 81. 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