Walters Ms. W.68, Ramboux Psalter Psalms Canticles Litany, petitions, invocations, and collects Hours of the Virgin Psalter Principal cataloger Randall, Lilian M.C. Cataloger Herbert, Lynley Cataloger Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934 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 Flemish Psalter was produced in the Hainaut region between 1265 and 1275. It was altered for Dominican use through the addition of antiphons in the margins in the late fifteenth century, at which point it was also rebound in its current inscribed leather binding. It was later among the books collected by Johann Anton Ramboux (1790-1866), a German painter and museum curator. The manuscript, which is illuminated throughout with twelve large historiated and inhabited initials, is a strong example of a group of manuscripts produced in the last quarter of the thirteenth century that combined the artistic styles of Hainaut and Liège, other examples including Paris, B.N. Lat. 1077, Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, BBR Ms. IV-1066, and Princeton University Art Museum 57.189. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.68 The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. 1v - 109v Psalter Psalter, with an Hours of the Virgin added very early on, but the latter text is now missing 1v - 97r Psalms Beatus vir Ten-partite psalter, divided at psalms 1, 26, 38, 51, 52, 68, 80, 97, 101, 109, and with a major division at psalm 119; musical notations for Dominican antiphons added probably in the fifteenth century beginning on fol. 17v; half-page fragment bound in after fol. 34, probably during rebinding in fifteenth century, beginning "Amplius laua me domine," and with versicles for Vespers on Passion Sunday on the back 97r - 106r Canticles Confitebor tibi 106r - 109v Litany, petitions, invocations, and collects Kyrieleison Saints in Litany, fols. 106v-107v, suggest region of Hainaut in diocese of Cambrai; saints include: seventeen apostles, from John the Baptist to Timothy; twenty-three martyrs, which include Clement, Marcellus, Clement, Anacletus, Donatus, Adalbert, Lambert, Dionysius, Maurice, Gereon, Lawrence, and Vincent; twenty confessors, which include Gelasius, Maternus, Nicholas, Augustine, Hubert, Remacle, Dominic (added), Paulinus, Servatius, and Nicholas; nineteen virgins, including Felicitas, Perpetua, Mary Magdalene, Mary Egyptian, Adeltrudis, Brigid, Waldetrudis, Juliana, Catherine (added), Walburga, Corona, and Ursula; fols. 107v-108r: petitions; fols. 108v-109v: invocations; fol. 109v: two collects, first to the Virgin, apostles, martyrs, confessors, virgins, and saints with relics in church attended by the book's owner; second collect is to God Note repeated inclusion of Clement martyr and Nicholas confessor; fifteenth-century addition of SS. Dominic and Catherine of Siena, bottom fol. 107r 109v - 109v Hours of the Virgin Incipiunt hore beate marie virginis. Text possibly added very early to manuscript, now missing with exception of surviving rubric

Medium weight to heavy parchment, darkened from use

 Foliation: i+109+i17.3 13.0 12.7 8.2 Two sets of page numbering: seventeenth-century ink pagination on upper corners of rectos/versos; modern pencil foliation upper right corners rectos, used here; flyleaves are not original, and were added during its rebinding in the fifteenth or sixteenth century

Quire 1: 1, tipped in and attached to front flyleaf (fol. 1); Quires 2-3: 8 (fols. 2-17); Quire 4: 8, with fifth folio cancelled (fols. 18-24); Quire 5: 8 (fols. 25-32); Quire 6: 8, with half-folio bound in later, now fol. 34bis (fols. 33-40); Quires 7-9: 8 (fols. 41-64); Quire 10: 10, with first folio cancelled (fols. 65-73); Quire 11: 8 (fols. 74-81); Quires 12-13: 6 (fols. 81-93); Quires 14-15: 8 (fols. 94-109) None None

Ruled in plummet; the layout does not apply to the litany and petitions, which are in two columns Angular textura; later addition fol. 1r in rounded textura; marginal additions in irregularly formed textura by several hands Major psalm divisions marked with historiated initials, fols. 1v, 17v, 26v, 35r-v, 44r, 54r, 64r, 65r, 74r, and 84v; inhabited initial marks Psalm 2, fol. 2r Historiated initial fol. 97r Twelve historiated initials (8 lines to full-page) and one inhabited initial (5 lines) in blue and pink with white accents against burnished gold grounds; enlarged flourished red and blue initials begin lesser psalms, canticles and prayers (2-3 lines); small alternating red and blue initials throughout (1 line); musical staff and notation added periodically in lower margins; rubrics in red; text in black-brown ink Initial "B" with Ascension (above) and Pentecost (below) Psalm 1 Historiated initial "B," full-page Initial "Q" with dragon Psalm 2 Inhabited initial "Q," 5 lines Initial "D" with David pointing to his mouth before the face of God Psalm 26 Historiated initial "D," 11 lines Initial "D" with David pointing to his eye before the face of God Psalm 38 Historiated initial "D," 11 lines Initial "Q" with an enthroned king Psalm 51 Historiated initial "Q," 11 lines Initial "D" with a fool taking a bite of bread Psalm 52 Historiated initial "D," 11 lines Initial "S" with David in water below, and God blessing him above Psalm 68 Historiated initial "S," 11 lines Initial "E" with David ringing bells Psalm 80 Historiated initial "E," 10 lines Initial "C" with a singing cleric Psalm 97 Historiated initial "C," 11 lines Initial "D" with David praying before face of God Psalm 101 Historiated initial "D," 9 lines Initial "D" with God enthroned, blessing and holding a crossed globe Psalm 109 Historiated initial "D," 11 lines Initial "A" with David praying before the face of God Psalm 119 Historiated initial "A," 11 lines Initial "C" with David praying before the face of God Canticles Historiated initial "C," 8 lines

Rebound in the fifteenth or sixteenth century in Belgium; brown calf over wood boards; blind stamped; vine patterns with beasts framed by inscriptions reading from top left corner, clockwise: "Deus de[di]t/ nobis sua[m] pace[m] et/ post morte[m]/ vita[m] eterna[m] amen"; a second inscription around the panels on the right side read "Deus dedit/ deus abstulerit/ sit nome[n]/ domini benedictu[m]"; one metal clasp detached (housed separately); one knotted fore-edge tab marks the beginning of the Canticles on fol. 97; fragment of an early liturgical manuscript used for front pastedown, and pieces of two different later service books reused as flyleaves

 Ca. 1265-1275 CE Hainaut Likely created in Hainaut ca. 1265-1275 Adapted for Dominican use, late fifteenth century; rebound at this time Seventeenth-century shelfmark in brown ink, upper left corner of front pastedown: "Ms. 630" (or possibly 680) Nineteenth-century inscription in black ink, lower left portion of front pastedown: "7598 Lot(?) Beg" Antoine Ramboux, Cologne, before 1867; ownership stamp, "I. A. Ramboux," appears twice, on top of front pastedown, and on bottom of fol. 1r; sold in Cologne, May 23, 1867 Leo S. Olschki, Florence, early twentieth century; his typed dealer slip (in file) gives it a number "28852" in ink, as well as a penciled "4," the latter also found in pencil on recto of front flyleaf Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Olschki before 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. 770, cat. no. 81. Oliver, J.H. Gothic Manuscript Illumination in the Diocese of Liège (c. 1250-1350). Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts from the Low Countries, 3. Vol. 2. Leuven: Peeters, 1988; p. 1, 26, 53, 56, 57, 78, 85, 118, 143, 152, 153, 156-158, 160, 161, 213, 229-231, pls. 44, 60. Oliver, J.H. In beeld geprezen: Miniaturen uit Maaslandse devotieboeken, 1250-1350. Exhibition catalogue, Saint-Truiden, Provincial Museum voor Religuize Kunst. Leuven: Peeters, 1989; cat. no. 10. Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 3, Belgium, 1250-1530. Baltimore, London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1997; pp. 7-10, cat. no. 215. Smeyers, Mauritius. Flemish Miniatures from the 8th to the mid-16th Century: The Medieval World on Parchment. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1999; pp. 152 (fig. 61), 153. Gy, Pierre-Marie. "Bulletin de liturgie." Revue des sciences philosophiques et théologiques 84 (2000): 513-544; p. 520. Joslin, Mary Coker and Carolyn Coker Joslin Watson. The Egerton Genesis. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001; p. 204. 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 Liturgical Devotional Scriptural Theological Legal Historical Scientific Scientific -- Medical Literary -- Prose Literary -- Poetry Philosophical Astrological Sufi English Psalter Flemish Binding Book Codex Grotesques Historiated initial Illumination Manuscript Miniature Textura Walters Art Museum Flanders 13th century Devotion Liturgy Scripture Christian Musical notation