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Manuscript Sections & Illuminated Folios

Calendar 1r - 12v;

    Gospel Sequences 13r - 16v;

    Illuminations (1)

    • Four Evangelists and their symbols fol. 13r

    Hours for each day of the week 17v - 19v;20r - 22v;31r - 32r;32v - 35v;44r - 44v;45r - 47r;47v - 50r;50v - 51v;

    Illuminations (5)

    • Burial Service fol. 20r
    • Annunciation fol. 32v
    • Christ revered by saints fol. 45r
    • Holy Communion fol. 47v
    • Crucifixion fol. 50v

    Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany 24r - 30v;36r - 43v;

    Illuminations (1)

    • King David fol. 36r

    Devotional Sequence for the Virgin 52r - 120v;

    Illuminations (8)

    • Initial "B" with Moses and the Burning Bush fol. 52v
    • Initial "D" with the Visitation fol. 62v
    • Initial "D" with the Nativity-Adoration fol. 67v
    • Initial "D" with the Annunciation to the Shepherds fol. 73v
    • Initial "S" with the Massacre of the Innocents fol. 79v
    • Initial "E" with the Presentation in the Temple fol. 84v
    • Initial "C" with the Adoration of the Magi fol. 91r
    • Initial "D" with the Flight into Egypt fol. 96v

    Devotional Sequence 121r - 139r;

    Illuminations (8)

    • Initial "B" with Moses and the Burning Bush fol. 52v
    • Initial "D" with the Visitation fol. 62v
    • Initial "D" with the Nativity-Adoration fol. 67v
    • Initial "D" with the Annunciation to the Shepherds fol. 73v
    • Initial "S" with the Massacre of the Innocents fol. 79v
    • Initial "E" with the Presentation in the Temple fol. 84v
    • Initial "C" with the Adoration of the Magi fol. 91r
    • Initial "D" with the Flight into Egypt fol. 96v

    Suffrages 131v - 139r;

      Prayer on Five Joys of the Virgin 139r - 139v;

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        Illuminations (17)

        • Four Evangelists and their symbols
        • Trinity
        • Burial Service
        • Pentecost
        • Annunciation
        • King David
        • Christ revered by saints
        • Holy Communion
        • Crucifixion
        • Initial "B" with Moses and the Burning Bush
        • Initial "D" with the Visitation
        • Initial "D" with the Nativity-Adoration
        • Initial "D" with the Annunciation to the Shepherds
        • Initial "S" with the Massacre of the Innocents
        • Initial "E" with the Presentation in the Temple
        • Initial "C" with the Adoration of the Magi
        • Initial "D" with the Flight into Egypt
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        Abstract

        Illuminated in the style of the Master of the Black Prayerbook, this manuscript was created ca. 1460-1470. It contains features in the calendar that indicate a destination of Bruges, and aspects of the litany point to the city of Liège. The manuscript is currently misbound, but an attempt has been made to reconstruct the original order of the quires. The full-page miniatures and historiated initials are painted with a mixture of grisaille and colored techniques. There may be a reference to the patron and their family taking communion on fol. 47v.

        Hand note

        Written in a different hand at a later, yet still early, date

        Contributors

        Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.

        Cataloger: Shartrand, Emily

        Editor: Herbert, Lynley

        Copy editor: Wallace, Susan

        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

        Bibliography

        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. 794, cat. no. 234.


        Miner, Dorothy. Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Museum and the Baltimore Museum of Art, 1949; cat. no. 132.


        Delaissé, Leon M. J. Miniature flamande: La mécénat de Philippe le Bon. Exhibition Catalogue. Brussels: Palais de Beaux-Arts, 1959.


        Diringer, David. The Illuminated Book: Its History and Production. Revised Edition. New York: Faber and Faber, 1967; pp. 449-450.


        Bowles, Edmund A. "A Checklist of Musical Instruments in Fifteenth Century Illuminated Manuscripts at the Walters Art Gallery." Music Library Association 32 (1976): 719-726; p. 723.


        Jenni, Ulrike, and Dagmar Thoss. Das Schwarze Gebetbuch (Gebetbuch des Galeazzo Maria Sforza): Codex 1856 der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek in Wien. Kommentar zur Faksimileausgabe. Frankfurt: Insel Verlag, 1982; pp. 65, 70, 101-102.


        Mavarelli, Cristina G., with Maria Jole Minicucci and Maria Grazia Ciardi Duprè dal Poggetto. I Libre d'Ore della Biblioteca Riccardiana. Vol 1: I Libri d'Ore francesi e fiamminghi. Rome: Istituto poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, 1986; p. 329.


        Dogaer, Georges. Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th Century. Amsterdam: B.M. Israël, 1987; pp. 103, 121, 136.


        Owens, Margaret B. "Musical Subjects in the Illumination of Books of Hours from Fifteenth-Century France and Flanders." Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1987; p. 398.


        Pächt, Otto and Dagmar Thoss. Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, Französische Schule, II. Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Phil.-Hist. Klasse, Denkschriften 160. 2 vols. Vienna: Verlag de Österreichische, 1990; vol. 1, pp. 25, 34, figs. 5, 9, 10.


        Crossley-Holland, Nicole. A Fifteenth-Century Franciscan French Office: Translation and Commentary of the Hours of the Passion. Medieval Studies 4. Lewiston/Queenston: E. Mellen Press, 1991; pp. 143, 144.


        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. 312-317, cat. no. 263.


        Kren, Thomas. "Master of the Dresden Prayerbook and Ghent Associates." In Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe. Edited by Thomas Kren and Scott McKendrick, 180-181. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Trust, 2003; p. 181 (ref. under cat. no. 36).


        Morrison, Elizabeth. "Master of the David Scenes in the Grimani Breviary and Another Illuminator." In Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe. Edited by Thomas Kren and Scott McKendrick, 390-391. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum Publishers, 2003; p. 391 (ref. under cat. no. 116).


        Vanwijnsberghe, Dominique. "Le cycle d'enfance des petites de la vierge dans les livres d'heures des pays-bas méridionaux." In Manuscripten en miniaturen: Studies aangeboden aan Anne S. Korteweg bij haar afscheid van de Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Bijdragen tot de Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse Boekhandel. Nieuwe Reeks (8). Edited by Jos Biemans, Klaas van der Hoek, Kathryn M. Rudy, and Ed van der Vlist, 355-366. Zutphen: Walburg Pers, 2007; p. 365.


        Hans-Collas, Illona, and Hanno Wijsman. Le Livre d’heures et de prières d’Agnès de Bourgogne, duchesse de Bourbon. Art de l'enluminure 29 (2009): 20-47; p. 44.


        These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.

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        Keywords
        Book of Hours
        Christian
        Flemish
        Grisaille
        Historiated initial
        Miniature
        Flanders
        15th century
        Devotion
        Painting

        Origin Place

        Bruges (?)

        Date

        Ca. 1460-70 CE

        Form

        book

        Binding

        Non-original Binding

        Binding Description

        Bound in France ca. 1900 in dark green velvet, and leather fore-edge tabs added at that time

        Language

        The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.

        Provenance

        Created ca. 1460-70, calendar indicates Bruges as destination, and litany has features common to Liège; fol. 47v may have portrait of patron and family

        Effaced monogram on top-right of fol. 1r visible under UV light; lower margin of same page has inscription in brown ink "Ioannes Reitmakers/anno 1663"

        Léon Gruel, Paris, late nineteenth-early twentieth century; possibly rebound by him; bookplate on upper board inside

        Henry Walters, Baltimore, likely purchased from Gruel between 1900 and 1931

        Acquisition

        Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest

        ← search Book of Hours W.190

        Origin Place

        Bruges (?)

        Date

        Ca. 1460-70 CE

        Form

        book

        Language

        The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.

        Provenance

        Created ca. 1460-70, calendar indicates Bruges as destination, and litany has features common to Liège; fol. 47v may have portrait of patron and family

        Effaced monogram on top-right of fol. 1r visible under UV light; lower margin of same page has inscription in brown ink "Ioannes Reitmakers/anno 1663"

        Léon Gruel, Paris, late nineteenth-early twentieth century; possibly rebound by him; bookplate on upper board inside

        Henry Walters, Baltimore, likely purchased from Gruel between 1900 and 1931

        Acquisition

        Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest

        Manuscript Overview

        Abstract

        Illuminated in the style of the Master of the Black Prayerbook, this manuscript was created ca. 1460-1470. It contains features in the calendar that indicate a destination of Bruges, and aspects of the litany point to the city of Liège. The manuscript is currently misbound, but an attempt has been made to reconstruct the original order of the quires. The full-page miniatures and historiated initials are painted with a mixture of grisaille and colored techniques. There may be a reference to the patron and their family taking communion on fol. 47v.

        Hand note

        Written in a different hand at a later, yet still early, date

        References

        Contributors

        Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.

        Cataloger: Shartrand, Emily

        Editor: Herbert, Lynley

        Copy editor: Wallace, Susan

        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

        Bibliography

        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. 794, cat. no. 234.


        Miner, Dorothy. Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Museum and the Baltimore Museum of Art, 1949; cat. no. 132.


        Delaissé, Leon M. J. Miniature flamande: La mécénat de Philippe le Bon. Exhibition Catalogue. Brussels: Palais de Beaux-Arts, 1959.


        Diringer, David. The Illuminated Book: Its History and Production. Revised Edition. New York: Faber and Faber, 1967; pp. 449-450.


        Bowles, Edmund A. "A Checklist of Musical Instruments in Fifteenth Century Illuminated Manuscripts at the Walters Art Gallery." Music Library Association 32 (1976): 719-726; p. 723.


        Jenni, Ulrike, and Dagmar Thoss. Das Schwarze Gebetbuch (Gebetbuch des Galeazzo Maria Sforza): Codex 1856 der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek in Wien. Kommentar zur Faksimileausgabe. Frankfurt: Insel Verlag, 1982; pp. 65, 70, 101-102.


        Mavarelli, Cristina G., with Maria Jole Minicucci and Maria Grazia Ciardi Duprè dal Poggetto. I Libre d'Ore della Biblioteca Riccardiana. Vol 1: I Libri d'Ore francesi e fiamminghi. Rome: Istituto poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, 1986; p. 329.


        Dogaer, Georges. Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th Century. Amsterdam: B.M. Israël, 1987; pp. 103, 121, 136.


        Owens, Margaret B. "Musical Subjects in the Illumination of Books of Hours from Fifteenth-Century France and Flanders." Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1987; p. 398.


        Pächt, Otto and Dagmar Thoss. Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, Französische Schule, II. Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Phil.-Hist. Klasse, Denkschriften 160. 2 vols. Vienna: Verlag de Österreichische, 1990; vol. 1, pp. 25, 34, figs. 5, 9, 10.


        Crossley-Holland, Nicole. A Fifteenth-Century Franciscan French Office: Translation and Commentary of the Hours of the Passion. Medieval Studies 4. Lewiston/Queenston: E. Mellen Press, 1991; pp. 143, 144.


        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. 312-317, cat. no. 263.


        Kren, Thomas. "Master of the Dresden Prayerbook and Ghent Associates." In Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe. Edited by Thomas Kren and Scott McKendrick, 180-181. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Trust, 2003; p. 181 (ref. under cat. no. 36).


        Morrison, Elizabeth. "Master of the David Scenes in the Grimani Breviary and Another Illuminator." In Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe. Edited by Thomas Kren and Scott McKendrick, 390-391. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum Publishers, 2003; p. 391 (ref. under cat. no. 116).


        Vanwijnsberghe, Dominique. "Le cycle d'enfance des petites de la vierge dans les livres d'heures des pays-bas méridionaux." In Manuscripten en miniaturen: Studies aangeboden aan Anne S. Korteweg bij haar afscheid van de Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Bijdragen tot de Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse Boekhandel. Nieuwe Reeks (8). Edited by Jos Biemans, Klaas van der Hoek, Kathryn M. Rudy, and Ed van der Vlist, 355-366. Zutphen: Walburg Pers, 2007; p. 365.


        Hans-Collas, Illona, and Hanno Wijsman. Le Livre d’heures et de prières d’Agnès de Bourgogne, duchesse de Bourbon. Art de l'enluminure 29 (2009): 20-47; p. 44.


        Bindings & Oddities

        These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.

        Upper board outside

        Lower board outside

        Spine

        Fore-edge

        Head

        Tail

        Keywords
        Book of Hours
        Christian
        Flemish
        Grisaille
        Historiated initial
        Miniature
        Flanders
        15th century
        Devotion
        Painting
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