Walters Ms. W.95, Book of Hours Calendar Added prayer Hours of the Virgin Long Hours of the Holy Spirit Weekday Office of the Virgin Hours of the Cross Hours of the Trinity Hours of the Cross of Pope John XXII Prayers Seven Penitential Psalms Litany, Petitions, and invocations Gospel sequence of St. John and benedictions Book of Hours Principal cataloger Randall, Lilian M.C. Cataloger Herbert, Lynley Cataloger Valle, Chiara Editor Herbert, Lynley Copy editor Dibble, Charles Contributor Bucca, Lauren 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 Book of Hours was completed ca. 1320-30 in the region of Ghent. The presence of the Hours of the Cross attributed to Pope John XXII (1316-1334) provides evidence that helps date the manuscript. The text is written in three languages, with the main text in Latin, Flemish prayers on fols. 123r-125v and fols. 131r-141r, and French rubrics throughout. Made for a woman portrayed kneeling before the cross on fol. 116v, this manuscript is decorated with twenty-four extant historiated initials and drolleries for each canonical hour. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.95 The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary languages of this manuscript are Dutch; Flemish, French, Old (842-ca.1400). 1r - 166v Book of Hours Book of Hours in three languages Latin, Flemish, and French with added prayers; calendar is incomplete; missing Office of the Dead 1r - 4v Calendar Calendar lacks January through April; months quarter-full; graded in red and brown; Egyptian days designated; saints of note for Flemish use: Amelberga (July 10), Eligius (Dec. 1), Bavo (Oct. 1), and Thomas Becket (Feb. 21) 5r - 7v Added prayer Dilectissime Domine Iesu Christi Prayer added in the fifteenth century 8r - 45v Hours of the Virgin Domine labia mea Hours of the Virgin for Use of Rome; lacking folios at the beginning of None and Vespers after fols. 33 and 35; fols. 44r-45v: four Suffrages to SS. Nicholas, Martin, Catherine, and Mary Magdalene 45v - 57v Long Hours of the Holy Spirit Chi apries sensiwent les eures dou saint esperit. A Matines. Domine labia mea Hours of the Holy Spirit, lacking beginning of Vespers after fol. 54r; fols. 57v-82r: Office of the Virgin for each day of the week Headings in French and Latin 57v - 82r Weekday Office of the Virgin Eructavit cor meum verbum 82v - 97v Hours of the Cross Domine labia mea 99r - 116v Hours of the Trinity Deus in adiutorium meum 116v - 122v Hours of the Cross of Pope John XXII Domine labia mea aperies Hours of the Cross of Pope John XXII; fols. 116v-121v: Matins; fols. 121v-122r: Suffrage of the True Cross; fols. 122r-v: Indulgence prayer of Pope John XXII 123r - 146v Prayers O God die van suader Fols. 123r-125v: prayers in Flemish; fols. 125v-131r: Psalms in Latin; fols. 131r-141r: prayers in Flemish; fols. 141r-146v: prayers in Latin to the wounds, the Virgin, John the Evangelist, the Cross, the guardian angel 147r - 157r Seven Penitential Psalms Domine ne in furore 157r - 164r Litany, Petitions, and invocations La letanie grande Kyrieleyson Fols. 157r-160r: Litany with Flemish and Northern French saints, including St. John the Baptist as only patriarch/prophet; sixteen evangelists/disciples/apostles from Peter to Barnabas; sixteen martyrs including Livin, George, Adrian, Quintinus, Lam[bert?], fourteen extant confessors (originally twenty, but corner torn) including five popes, with others such as Benedict, Nicholas, Remigius, Aegydius, Eligius, Brictius, Ambrose, Wandregisil, and Arnulph; eighteen virgins including Mary Magdalene, Mary Egyptian, Catherine, Amalberga, Brigid, Gertrude, Adelgund, Pharaildis (of note as patroness of Ghent); fols. 160r-162v: Petitions, invocations, and cues; fols. 162v-164r: Invocation and versicles 164v - 166v Gospel sequence of St. John and benedictions Inicium sancti Ewangelii secundum Johannem In principio erat verbum Fols. 164v-165r: Gospel sequence of St. John; fols. 166r-v: benedictions before and after a meal

Medium weight parchment, fair selection and preparation; red and blue speckled pigment on page edges; paper patch on fols. 28 and 159; modern parchment flyleaves, bifoliate with facing pastedown

 Foliation: i+166+i14.8 10.3 9.8 7.2 Modern pencil foliation, upper right corners, rectos (used here); another set of foliation in lower right corners, numbers are not consecutive

Quire 1: 4 (fols. 1-4); Quire 2: 2, with third folio attached (fols. 5-7); Quires 3-5: 8 (fols. 8-31); Quire 6: 8, lacking third and sixth folios (fols. 32-37); Quires 7-8: 8 (fols. 38-53); Quire 9: 8, lacking first and third folios (fols. 54-59); Quires 10-12: 8 (fols. 60-75); Quire 13: 6, with seventh folio tipped in (fols. 76-83); Quires 14-22: 8 (fols. 84-162); Quire 23: 4, minus the fourth folio (fols. 163-166) Modern pencil quire signatures added in the late nineteenth-early twentieth century, perhaps at the time of rebinding None

Ruled in brown ink; layout does not apply to calendar (32 lines, written surface 13.3 x 7 cm, ruled in lead) Textura quadrata; Calendar in textura semi-quadrata; fols. 5r-7r: fifteenth century hand imitating littera humanistica formata Six historiated initials and drolleries mark the hours on fols. 8r, 15r, 24v, 28r, 31v, 41r Six historiated initials on fols. 46r, 48r, 49v, 51v, 53r, and 56v Seven gold inhabited initials fols. 82v, 85r, 88r, 90v, 93r, 95r, and 96v Two inhabited gold initials fols. 99r and 103r One historiated gold initial on fol. 116v, and drolleries for the beginning of the Hours; gold initials inhabited by animals or nomina sacra (2 to 3 lines) One gold historiated initial on fol. 123r, and drolleries One historiated gold initial on fol. 147r, and drolleries Twenty-four historiated initials extant (5 lines); enlarged decorated initials in burnished gold mark secondary text divisions (2-4 lines); small flourished gold initials throughout (1 line); folios containing historiated initials also have decorated borders with drolleries; rubrics in red; text in brown or brown-black ink Annunciation Hours of the Virgin: Matins Historiated initial "D," 7 lines Visitation Hours of the Virgin: Lauds Historiated initial "D," 3 lines Nativity Hours of the Virgin: Prime Historiated initial "D," 5 lines Annunciation to the Shepherds Hours of the Virgin: Terce Historiated initial "D," 5 lines Adoration of the Magi Hours of the Virgin: Sext Historiated initial "D," 5 lines Flight into Egypt Hours of the Virgin: Compline Historiated initial "C," 5 lines Trinity Long Hours of the Holy Spirit: Matins Historiated initial "D," 6 lines St. John the Evangelist Long Hours of the Spirit: Lauds Historiated initial "D," 2 lines St. Peter Long Hours of the Holy Spirit: Prime Historiated initial "D," 5 lines St. Paul Long Hours of the Holy Spirit: Terce Historiated initial "D," 5 lines St. James the Great Long Hours of the Holy Spirit: Sext Historiated initial "D," 5 lines Pentecost Long Hours of the Holy Spirit: Compline Historiated initial "C," 5 lines Betrayal Hours of the Cross: Matins Historiated initial "D," 5 lines Christ before Pilate Hours of the Cross: Lauds Historiated initial "D," 5 lines Flagellation Hours of the Cross: Prime Historiated initial "D," 5 lines Christ Carrying the Cross Hours of the Cross: Terce Historiated initial "D," 5 lines Deposition Hours of the Cross: Nones Historiated initial "D," 5 lines Entombment Hours of the Cross: Vespers Historiated initial "D," 5 lines Resurrection Hours of the Cross: Compline Historiated initial "C," 5 lines Noli Me Tangere Hours of the Trinity: Vespers Historiated initial "D," 5 lines Throne of Mercy Hours of the Trinity: Matins Historiated initial "D," 4 lines Woman kneeling before the crucifix Hours of the Cross of Pope John XXII: Matins Historiated initial "D," 5 lines Christ enthroned; top margin: hand of God cradles gold circle Prayer: "O God die..." Historiated initial "O," 4 lines David praying before the altar Penitential Psalms: Psalm 6 Historiated initial "D," 5 lines

Late nineteenth-early twentieth-century crimson velvet binding; made by Léon Gruel; no. 936 written in pencil front pastedown

 Early 14th century CE Flanders (Ghent?) Made in Flanders in the early fourteenth century Jacobi Santens Cercenasen, sixteenth century; note of possession on fol. 98r, "ad usum mei Jacobi Santens Cercenasen et omnium amicorum" and "emi eiusdem Jacobi santens ego ..." (effaced) Léon Gruel, Paris, before 1931 Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Léon Gruel by before 1931 Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest Relevant Works De Ricci, Seymour, and William J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935; p. 784, cat. no. 171. Oliver, Judith H. Gothic Manuscript Illumination in the Diocese of Liège (c. 1250-1350). Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts from the Low Countries, 3. Vol. 1. Leuven: Peeters, 1988; p. 94 (n. 14). Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 3, Belgium, 1250-1530. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1997; pp. 85-91, cat. no. 226. Joslin, Mary Coker and Carolyn Coker Joslin Watson. The Egerton Genesis. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001; p. 223. 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; pp. 82-84. Oliver, Judith H. "Te Matrem Laudamus:The Many Roles of Mary in a Liège Psalter Hours in Cambridge." In The Cambridge Illuminations: The Conference Papers. Edited by Stella Panayotova, 159-172. London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2007; p. 161. 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 Book of Hours Christian Flemish Grisaille Historiated initial Manuscript Walters Art Museum Flanders 14th century Devotion