Walters Ms. W.86, Book of Hours Calendar Prefatory cycle Hours of the Virgin Seven penitential psalms Litany, petitions, and collects Long Hours of the Holy Spirit Fifteen gradual psalms 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 Wiegand, Kimber Conservator Owen, Linda Conservator Quandt, Abigail The Walters Art Museum

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 This small, early Book of Hours dates to the late thirteenth century. It was created for use in Arras, and remained in that region for most of its existence. Although the majority of the book is written in Latin, the calendar is in Old French. The manuscript contains a prefatory cycle of six Passion miniatures, as well as seven extant full-page historiated initials. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.86 The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is French, Old (842-ca.1400). 1r - 174v Book of Hours 1r - 12v Calendar Jenviers a xxxi. ior. lun(?) xxx. Calendar one half to three-quarters full; graded in red and brown ink; saints in calendar indicate use of Arras, and include Vedast and Amandus (Feb. 6), Eligius (June 25), Vedast (translation, July 15), Thomas of Canterbury (Dec. 29); several saints have atypical dates indicated for feasts, including Quintinus (Mar. 9), Desiderius (Mar. 10), Walburga (Nov. 15), and Helen (Dec. 17) 13v - 18r Prefatory cycle Miniatures related to Christ's Passion 19r - 106v Hours of the Virgin Domine labia mea Incomplete; lacking opening text of Terce and Sext due to removal of historiated initials after fols. 73 and 77; occasional psalm numbers provided in margins in ink by an eighteenth-century hand Use of Arras; unusually, several of the historiated initials contain rubrics within the text beneath them along with the first words of the incipit (e.g., fols. 65v, 83r, 88v, and 99v, even while rubrics are also sometimes provided in red ink on the preceding page (e.g., fol. 65r contains rubric "Ad prima," and this is repeated in the historiated initial on the reverse side of the page, fol. 65v) 107r - 126r Seven penitential psalms Domine ne in furore Rubric unusually provided within historiated initial as in Hours of the Virgin (see part for details) 126v - 133r Litany, petitions, and collects Kyrieleyson Fols. 126v-129v: litany: saints suggest use in Arras; sixteen martyrs, including Stephen, Nicasius, Firmin, Quintinus, and Dionysius; eleven confessors such as Vedast, Silvester, Martin, Nicolas, Eligius, Augustine, Jerome, Ambrose, Remigius, Benedict, and Antony; nine virgins including Agnes, Columba, Catherine, and Margaret; fols. 130r-131r: petitions; fols. 131r-133r: three collects 135r - 169r Long Hours of the Holy Spirit Incipiunt hore de sancto spiritu Domine labia mea aperies Marginal psalm numbers added in ink by eighteenth-century hand (as in Hours of the Virgin) 169r - 172v Fifteen gradual psalms Incipiunt quindecim psalmi Ad dominus Only the first twelve psalms have cues included; Psalm 132 written out after rest but imperfect, ending with "sicut res hermon qui descendit in montem syon"

Thin, well-prepared parchment

 Foliation: iv+174+iii8.5 6.0 5.5 4.0 Three flyleaves at beginning and end are modern parchment; a fourth parchment page at the beginning, which has a pricked design on it, appears to be contemporary with the original manuscript, but is not part of the quire structure is therefore counted as a flyleaf; one set of foliation, upper right corners rectos, until fol. 119, where an earlier pencil foliation becomes incorrect and has been crossed out and the correct number written above

Quire 1: 12 (fols. 1-12); Quire 2: 4, with a fifth folio added (fols. 13-17); Quire 3: 10, with the first folio added (fols. 18-28); Quires 4-5: 10 (fols. 29-48); Quire 6: 8 (fols. 49-56); Quire 7: 10 (fols. 57-66); Quire 8: 10, lacking the eighth and ninth folios (fols. 67-74); Quire 9: 10, lacking the fourth folio (fols. 75-83); Quires 10-12: 10 (fols. 84-113); Quires 13-19: 8 (fols. 114-169); Quire 20: 6, lacking fourth and fifth folios, with seventh glued in to end(?) (fols. 170-174) Occasional catchwords visible partially cropped, lower right, versos (eg. fol. 83v)

Ruled in lead Small historiated initial fol. 135r Textura; calendar and main text probably by different hand Full-page historiated initials fols. 19r, 50r, 65v, 83r, 88v, and 99v Full-page historiated initial fol. 107r Six full-page miniatures; seven extant full-page historiated initials (two missing); one small historiated initial (5 lines); decorated initials used for "KL" in calendar and at secondary text divisions in gold against blue and rose grounds with white accents (2 lines); small flourished initials throughout in alternating gold and blue with red or blue penwork (1 line); geometric line fillers in varying combinations of red, blue, and gold; rubrics in red; text in black ink; unusual designs created out of prickings on front flyleaf iv and on fol. 173 Christ washing his disciples' feet Full-page miniature Arrest of Christ Full-page miniature Christ before Pilate Full-page miniature Flagellation Full-page miniature Crucifixion Full-page miniature Marys at the tomb Full-page miniature Initial "D" with the Annunciation Hours of the Virgin: Matins Full-page historiated initial Initial "D" with the Visitation Hours of the Virgin: Lauds Full-page historiated initial Initial "D" with the Nativity Hours of the Virgin: Prime Full-page historiated initial Initial "D" with the Presentation in the Temple Hours of the Virgin: None Full-page historiated initial Initial "D" with the Massacre of the Innocents Hours of the Virgin: Vespers Full-page historiated initial Initial "C" with the Flight into Egypt Hours of the Virgin: Compline Full-page historiated initial Initial "D" with King David harping before face of God Seven penitential psalms Full-page historiated initial Initial "D" with the Trinity Long Hours of the Holy Spirit Historiated initial "D," 5 lines

Early twentieth-century English binding by Rivière & Company, London (binding signed on lower turn-in of front cover); brown leather with blind tooled patterns on covers and spine; gilt title on spine: "HEURES DE LA VIERGE," and below, "MS. DU 13me SIECLE"

 Late 13th century CE Northeast France (Flanders at the time) Created in Northeast France (French Flanders) in the thirteenth century for the Use of Arras; appears to have been used in that region for most of its existence based on ownership inscriptions Fragmentary fourteenth- or fifteenth-century inscription, fol. 173r, reads "...Aucton...honore...liber a ton...da" Nicolas Josephes Varoquier, Orchies, ca. 1700; ownership inscription, fol. 133v, reads "Cette livre appertien a nicola[s] josephes Varoquier Celui qui le retrouvra et le rendra pour dieu ou pour de argent a Orchies Septembre 1706 [1700?];" Orchies lies approximately kilometers northeast of Arras Two contemporary inscriptions in red ink on front flyleaf iV: "Timotheus La Bussiere 1712" and "Tim: La Meillerais 1712" Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased between 1900 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. 782, cat. no. 161. 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. 366. Wieck, Roger S. Time Sanctified. The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life. New York: George Braziller. 1988, pp. 66, 172, cat. no. 4, fig. 40. Hemzik, Pamela. "Book of Hours." In Medieval Art in America: Patterns of Collecting, 1800-1940. Exhibition Catalogue. Palmer Museum of Art. Edited by Elizabeth Bradford Smith et al., 80-87. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996; p. 85 (n. 11 for p. 80). Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 1, France 875-1420. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1997; pp. 113-115, cat. no. 47. De Beaumanoir, Philippe. Le Roman de la Manekine. Amsterdam: Rodopi Publishers, 1999; p. 39. Busby, Keith, Terry Nixon, Alison Stones and Lori Walters, eds. Les manuscrits de Chretien de Troyes. Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1993, Vol. 1, pp. 251, 253; Vol. 2, p. 57. Higgitt, John. The Murthly Hours: Devotion, Literacy, and Luxury in Paris, England, and the Gaelic West. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000; pp. 179, 184. Noel, William. "Psalter with Calendar, Canticles, Collects, Litany, Office of the Dead, Hours of the Virgin, and the Seven Penitential Psalm." In Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections. Edited by James R. Tanis, 54-56. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001; p. 54, cat. no. 11. Wolf, Jurgen. "Artus und sein Gefolge: Zur Tradierung des arturischen Romans in Deutschland und Frankreich." In Eine Epoche im Umbruch: Volkssprachliche Literalität 1200-1300. Edited by Christa Bertelsmeier-Kierst and Christopher Young, 2003, 205-220; p. 215. Hourihane, Colum. Pontius Pilate: Anti-Semitism, and the Passion in Medieval Art. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009; p. 416 (n. 105). 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