Walters Ms. W.764, Vienna book of hours Calendar Hours of the Virgin Hours of the Cross Vigils of the Holy Spirit Prayer of the Three Kings Seven Penitential Psalms and litany Prayers Added prayer to St. Christopher Book of hours artist Master of the Maximilian Schoolbooks Master of the Schoolbooks Principal cataloger Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934 Cataloger Herbert, Lynley Cataloger Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934 Editor Herbert, Lynley Editor Noel, William Copy editor Bockrath, Diane Contributor Bockrath, Diane Contributor Dutschke, Consuelo Contributor Emery, Doug Contributor Hamburger, Jeffrey Contributor Noel, William Contributor Tabritha, Ariel Contributor Toth, Michael B. Conservator Owen, Linda Conservator Quandt, Abigail The Walters Art Museum

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 This book of hours was written in German in Vienna, Austria, ca. 1460-65. It is one of a series of manuscripts commissioned at the court of Emperor Frederick III of Austria (1415-1493), some of which were made for his son, Prince Maximilian (1459-1519). The name of the artist is unknown, but due to his connection with these commissions, he is known as the Master of the Maximilian Schoolbooks. Unfortunately, only three of the original sixteen full-page, richly painted miniatures remain in this manuscript, but ten of the missing folios have been identified. Nine cuttings are in the Musée Bonnat, Bayonne, France (inv. nr. 1244-1252), and one cutting is in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Dudley P. Allen Fund Accession 1959.40). Other related manuscripts include Vienna, Nationalbibliothek Codicies 2368, 2617, and 2289. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.764 The primary language in this manuscript is German, Middle High (ca.1050-1500). The secondary language of this manuscript is Latin. 1r - 200v Book of hours 1r - 12v Calendar Jenner hat xxxi Tag a die besneidung Christi Calendar one-third to one-half full, graded in black and red 13v - 55v Hours of the Virgin Tagczeit von unserer Lieben frawn Schidung. Von erst die Metten Herre tue auf mein Lebsen Misbound; fols. 31r-38v: matins; fols. 38v-41r: lauds; fols. 14r-16v: prime; fols. 17r-19v: terce; fols. 20r-30v: sext; fols. 42r-44v: none; fols. 45r-51v: vespers; fols. 52r-55v: compline 56r - 79r Hours of the Cross Hie hebt sich an die Tagczeit von unsers herren Marter. Von erst die Metten Herre tu auf mein Lebsen 80r - 107r Vigils of the Holy Spirit Hie hebt sich an die Vigili von allen gelaubigen Selen Diten wir umball 107v - 108r Prayer of the Three Kings Das Oppfer der heiligen dreyer Kunig sprich dicz gepet Emphach hewt werder hymelischer Vater 109r - 122r Seven Penitential Psalms and litany Hie hebent sich an die Suben Puess Psalmen von erst antiffen 122r - 199r Prayers Das gepet Almochtiger parmiherziger Notable prayers: fols. 125v-127v: prayers to Mary, one's angel, and St. George; fols. 128r-129v: prayer to St. Catherine; fols. 129v-133r: prayer to the Passion of Christ and Good Friday; fols. 133r-135r: prayer to Mary; fols. 135r-136r: prayer for God's blessing; fols. 136r-140v: prayer composed by St. Augustine; fols. 140v-143v: St. Augustine prayer; fols. 143v-146r: prayer for St. Ambrosius(?); fols. 146r-158r: prayers; fols. 158r-161r: prayers to St. Anselm and Mary; fols. 161r-166v: prayers to St. Anselm and Mary; fols. 166v-171r: special prayer to Mary; fols. 172r-197r: prayer of penance and other prayers; fol. 198r-199r: prayer to John the Evangelist 200r - 200v Added prayer to St. Christopher Prayer added to a blank folio in the sixteenth century

Medium-weight, clean, cream-colored parchment, well finished

 Foliation: ii+200+ii16.8 11.8 11.0 7.2 Modern pencil foliation in upper right corners of rectos; flyleaves of modern parchment

ii, 1(12), 2(8), 3(10), 4(8), 5(10,-10), 6(10,-10), 7-8(8), 9(10,-1), 10-20(10), 21(10,-10), ii None None Misbound and incomplete; quires begin on fols. 1(1), 13(2), 21(3), 31(4), 39(5), 48(6), 57(7), 65(8), 73(9), 82(10), 92(11), 102(12), 112(13), 122(14), 132(15), 142(16), 152(17), 162(18), 172(19), 182(20), 192(21); all leaves tipped in for quires 2, 5, and 6; outer leaves tipped in for quire 7; inner four leaves tipped in for quire 8; fols. 31-41 should come before fol. 13

 Ruled in brown ink Written in hybrid Gothic bookhand with some cursive aspects, in two sizes Full-page miniature on fol. 13v; large decorated initials marking incipits on fols. 14r, 17r, 20r, 31r, 42r, 45r, and 52r Full-page miniatures on fols. 66v and 76v; large decorated initials marking incipits on fols. 56r, 64r, 67r, 69r, 71r, 73r, and 77r Large decorated initial on fol. 80r Large decorated initial on fol. 109r Large decorated initial with tendrils on fol. 166v; smaller decorated initials on fols. 128r, 129v, 133r, 136v, and 158r Thirteen full-page miniatures missing; three extant full-page miniatures; twenty-five large decorated initials (3-7 lines), some with flowering tendrils; KL in calendar in alternating red and blue (3 lines); smaller initials in red and blue throughout the text (1-2 lines); rubrics in red; text in black ink Virgin and Child Hours of the Virgin: prime Full-page miniature This image would have originally been facing the incipit for matins, but the manuscript was misbound. Christ Carrying the Cross Hours of the Cross: terce Full-page miniature Entombment Hours of the Cross: compline Full-page miniature

Rebound by Abigail Quandt, Walters Art Museum, 1985, with white goatskin over wooden boards and two woven clasps with metal fittings; previous binding eighteenth-century green silk over heavy pasteboard (now housed separately)

 Ca. 1460 CE Vienna, Austria Vienna, Austria, ca. 1460-65, with illuminations by the Master of the Maximilian Schoolbooks (probably commissioned by a member of the court of Emperor Frederick III of Austria [1415-1493] for his son Prince Maximilian [1459-1519] due to its similarity to other manuscripts made for him) Bernard Quaritch, London, 1910 (no. 238) C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, November 28, 1912 (Auction CX) Jacques Rosenthal, Munich, 1928 (Catalog 90, no. 196) and 1929 (Catalog 91, no. 6) Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, purchased from H. P. Krauss, New York, 1959 (Catalog 88, no. 14) Museum purchase, January 1959 Relevant Works Bibliotheca Medii Aevi Manuscripta. Pars Altera: Einhundert Handschriften des Mittelalters vom zehnten bis zum fünfzehnten Jahrhunderts 90. Munich: Jacques Rosenthal, 1928, pp. 116-17, no. 196, pl. 20. Holter, Kurt. "Gotische Buchmalerei im südostdeutschen Raum." Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen 57 (1940): 23-35, no. 2. Faye, C. U., and W. H. Bond. Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962, p. 200, no. 578. Miner, Dorothy. "Since de Ricci--Western Illuminated Manuscripts Acquired since 1934: A Report in Two Parts: Part 1." Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 29-30 (1966): 68-103, figs. 19-21 (fols. 13v, 66v, 76v) Bulletin Codicologique. Scriptorium 26 (1972): 130-246; no. 402. Hamburger, Jeffrey. "Bosch's Conjuror: An Attack on Magic and Sacramental Heresy." Simiolus 14, no. 1 (1984): 4-23, no. 41. Cermann, Regina. Katalog der dutschprachigen illustrierten Handschriften des Mittelalters 5. Munich: Veröffentlichung der Kommission für deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2002, pp. 28-32. Pfändtner, Karl-Georg. "The Long-Lost Cuttings of a Fifteenth-Century Austrian Prayerbook (W.764) in the Walters Art Museum." Journal of the Walters Art Museum 64 (2005): 103-8. 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 Liturgical Devotional Scriptural Theological Legal Historical Scientific Scientific -- Medical Literary -- Prose Literary -- Poetry Philosophical Astrological Sufi English Book of Hours Austrian Book Gothic Illumination Manuscript Miniature Austria Devotion Codex Walters Art Museum Christian 15th century