Walters Ms. W.85, Book of Hours (incomplete) Hours of the Virgin Seven penitential psalms Litany, petitions, and collects Book of Hours Principal cataloger Randall, Lilian M.C. Cataloger Herbert, Lynley Editor Herbert, Lynley Copy editor Dibble, Charles Contributor Emery, Doug Contributor Noel, William Contributor Schuele, Allyson Contributor Tabritha, Ariel Contributor Toth, Michael B. Contributor Valle, Chiara Contributor Wiegand, Kimber Conservator Owen, Linda Conservator Quandt, Abigail The Walters Art Museum

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 This fragmentary Book of Hours was created in Ghent ca. 1300 for the use of a woman with Dominican ties. Although quite a bit of text and imagery is missing, including the calendar and Office of the Dead, this tiny manuscript is lavishly decorated on nearly every page with marginal drolleries and grotesques, making it a rich and charming book even in its fragmentary state. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.85 The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. 1r - 116v Book of Hours Incomplete and misbound 1r - 68v Hours of the Virgin Letatus sum in hiis Hours are for Dominican use; incomplete and misbound, beginning partway through Prime; texts can be reconstructed as follows: Matins missing; fols. 7-22, 3-4, and 5-6: Lauds; fols. 1-2: Prime; fols. 26-31 and 23-25: Terce; Sext missing; fols. 32-41: None; fols. 42-58: Vespers; fols. 59-68: Compline 69r - 102v Seven penitential psalms ...tu domine usquequo Incomplete; first psalm begins imperfectly 103r - 116v Litany, petitions, and collects Kyrieleyson Saints in litany favor Dominican order; fols. 103r-107r: Litany, which includes thirteen disciples from Peter to Barnabas; eleven martyrs, which include Thomas Becket and Peter martyr; twelve confessors, including Dominic, Francis, Jerome, Benedict, and Anthony; eight virgins, including Mary Magdalene, Felicitas, and Catherine; fols. 107v-115r: Petitions; fols. 115r-116v: Three collects, the second of which invokes St. Dominic

Thin parchment, very well selected and prepared

 Foliation: i+116+i6.8 4.7 3.0 2.1 Modern pencil foliation, upper right corners, rectos

Undetermined due to tight binding None None

Ruled in brown ink Textura quadrata Two large historiated initials, fols. 32r and 42r; nineteen small historiated initials, fols. 1r, 5v, 6v, 16r, 18v, 20v, 21r, 23r, 25v, 26r, 27v, 30r, 37v, 40v, 42v, 44v, 46v, 49r, and 51r Five historiated initials, fols. 71r, 75r, 87v, 96v, and 98v Many illuminated pages missing; two large historiated initials extant (6 lines); twenty-four smaller historiated initials (3-4 lines); decorated initials begin some major texts (4 lines); decorated and inhabited initials, including animals and human faces, found at secondary text openings throughout (2 lines); pages heavily populated with drolleries and grotesques throughout; geometric line fillers in gold, blue, and red; text in black ink Initial "L" with Balaam riding a donkey Hours of the Virgin: Prime Historiated initial "L," 4 lines Initial "T" with Paul being beheaded Hours of the Virgin: Lauds Historiated initial "T," 4 lines Initial "D" with the martyrdom of Stephen Hours of the Virgin: Lauds Historiated initial "D," 4 lines Initial "C" with Christ blessing Hours of the Virgin: Lauds Historiated initial "C," 3 lines Initial "L" with Christ enthroned holding globe Hours of the Virgin: Lauds Historiated initial "L," 4 lines Initial "E" with King David blessing Hours of the Virgin: Lauds Historiated initial "E," 4 lines Initial "O" with woman standing among trees Hours of the Virgin: Lauds Historiated initial "O," 4 lines Initial "E" with seated woman holding book Hours of the Virgin: Terce Historiated initial "E," 4 lines Initial "C" with an apostle holding a scroll Hours of the Virgin: Terce Historiated initial "C," 4 lines Initial "A" with a king's bust Hours of the Virgin: Terce Historiated initial "A," 4 lines Initial "N" with the Evangelist Mark Hours of the Virgin: Terce Historiated initial "N," 4 lines Initial "Q" with a Dominican monk writing on a scroll Hours of the Virgin: Terce Historiated initial "Q," 4 lines Initial "D" with Crucifixion and kneeling female patron Hours of the Virgin: None Historiated initial "D," 6 lines Initial "D" with St. Catherine of Alexandria and a kneeling knight below Hours of the Virgin: None Historiated initial "D," 4 lines Initial "F" with Samson wrestling a lion Hours of the Virgin: None Historiated initial "F," 4 lines Initial "D" with the anointing of Christ's body before entombment Hours of the Virgin: Vespers Historiated initial "D," 6 lines Initial "D" with John the Baptist Hours of the Virgin: Vespers Historiated initial "D," 4 lines Initial "L" with St. Martin dividing his cloak Hours of the Virgin: Vespers Historiated initial "L," 4 lines Initial "B" with an apostle (?) carrying a white book and cross Hours of the Virgin: Vespers Historiated initial "B," 4 lines

Note: the initial "B" here is a mistake; this is Psalm 121 and should begin with an "L" for "Letatus."

 Initial "N" with a seated scribe writing on a scroll Hours of the Virgin: None Historiated initial "N," 4 lines Initial "L" with John the Evangelist Hours of the Virgin: None Historiated initial "L," 4 lines Initial "B" with King David kneeling in prayer at an altar Seven penitential psalms Historiated initial "B," 4 lines Initial "D" with a seated man Seven penitential psalms Historiated initial "D," 4 lines Initial "D" with Mary Magdalene holding an ointment jar Seven penitential psalms Historiated initial "D," 4 lines Initial "D" with the martyrdom of the apostle Peter Seven penitential psalms Historiated initial "D," 4 lines Initial "D" with the martyrdom of John the Evangelist Seven penitential psalms Historiated initial "D," 4 lines

French green velvet binding, now mostly worn away, late nineteenth or early twentieth century, and likely by Léon Gruel; boards are thin pasteboard; tightly sewn, with white and green silk endbands; edges gilt; traces of fastener visible in middle of fore-edge on both boards

 First decade of the 14th century CE Ghent Created ca. 1300-10 for Dominican use; style suggests Ghent; kneeling figure of woman before Crucifixion image on fol. 32r suggests a female patron; Flemish origin supported by arms of Flanders, in banner hanging from trumpet fol. 15v, and on shield fol. 116r Léon Gruel and Robert Engelmann collection, Paris, late nineteenth-early twentieth century, no. 92; their bookplate on front pastedown Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel in 1903 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. 782, cat. no. 160. Miner, D. Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1949; cat. no. 49, pl. XXXI. Randall, Lilian M.C. Images in the Margins of Gothic Manuscripts. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966; p. 38 and passim. Diringer, David. The Illuminated Book: Its History and Production. London: Faber and Faber, 1967; p. 436, pl. VII-28. Lane, Barbara Greenhouse. The Development of the Medieval Devotional Figure. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1971, pp.174-5, fig. 196. Wentersdorf, K.P. "The Symbolic Significance of Figurae Scatologicae in Gothic Manuscripts." In Word, Picture, and Spectacle, edited by C. Davidson, 1-19. Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications of Western Michigan University, 1984; p. 2, fig. 3. 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. 365. London, Sotheby's, 21 June 1988. Referenced under lot 73. Wieck, Roger S., L.R. Poos, V. Reinburg, and J. Plummer. Time Sanctified: The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life, exhibition catalogue of the Walters Art Gallery. New York: George Braziller, 1988; pp. 69, 71, 207, cat. no. 78, fig. 49. London, Sotheby's, 18 June, 1991. Referenced under lot 155. Lewis, Suzanne. Beyond the Frame: Marginal Figures and Historiated Initials in the Getty Apocalypse. The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 20 (1992): 53-76; p. 75-76 (n. 16 for p. 63). Epstein, Marc Michael. Dreams of Subversion in Medieval Jewish Art and Literature. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997; p. 128. Hunt, Elizabeth Moore. Illuminating the Border of French and Flemish Manuscripts, 1270–1310. London: Routledge, 2006; pp. 189, 195. Wirth, Jean,and Isabelle Engammare. Les marges à drôleries des manuscrits gothiques, 1250-1350. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2008; p. 344. Leo, Dominic. Images, Texts, and Marginalia in a "Vows of the Peacock" Manuscript (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library MS G24). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Publishers, 2013; p. 344. 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