Walters Ms. W.282, Book of Hours

W.282

Book of Hours

Book of Hours

Completed ca. 1440-50 and illuminated in the style of the Masters of the Gold Scrolls, this Book of Hours preserves much information about its provenance. The first owner was possibly Barbe de Feuru, whose signature is found on the front pastedown. The book contains the ex libris of Jean of Ricaumez and his wife, Catherine of Barbenchon; their French inscription on the back pastedown promises good wine to the finder of the book if lost. The book was inherited by their son, Christophe of Ricaumez, who likely added several texts illustrated by an Rouennais artist, ca. 1500. Record of the ownership is not evinced in the book again until 1669 when the ex libris of the Count of Hallennes (Allennes family of Tournai?) was added. Alexandre-Constantin-Joseph of Nassau's (1738-1814) armorial shield appears twice, engraved (front pastedown) and painted (front flyleaf i, v).

1440-1450 CE

Bruges(?)

Supplied name: Masters of the Gold Scrolls

Book

Devotional

The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is French, Middle (ca.1400-1600).

Parchment

Carefully selected parchment of thick to medium weight, well prepared; similar parchment used for later additions at the front and back of manuscript

Foliation: ii+128+i

Modern pencil foliation upper right corners rectos

Formula: Quire 1: 6 (fols. 1-6); Quire 2: 8, added ca. 1500 (fols. 7-14); Quire 3: 8, added ca. 1500 (fols. 15-22); Quires 4-14: 8 (fols. 23-110); Quire 15: 4 (fols. 111-114); Quire 16: 8, added ca. 1500 (fols. 115-122); Quire 17: 4, added ca. 1500 (fols. 123-126); Quire 18: 2, with third folio tipped in after fol. 128, added ca. 1500 (fols. 127-back flyleaf i)

Comments: Several quires added ca. 1500: quires 2, 3, 16, 17, 18

15.8 cm wide by 21.1 cm high

8.0 cm wide by 11.4 cm high

1. Columns: 1
2. Ruled lines: 18
3. Layout does not apply to calendar: written surface 8.1 x 12.3cm, 4 columns, 33 lines; sections added ca. 1500 contain 1 column, 22 lines

fols. 1r - 128v:

1. Title: Book of Hours
2. Artist: Masters of the Gold Scrolls
3. Contents: Fols. 1r-6v: calendar; fols. 7r-22v: devotional sequence, added ca. 1500; fols. 23r-25r: Hours of the Cross; fols. 25v-27v: Hours of the Holy Spirit; fols. 28r-35v: Mass of the Virgin; fols. 36r-72v: Hours of the Virgin, for use of Rome; fols. 73r-78v: Advent Office of the Virgin; fols. 79r-86v: Seven Penitential Psalms; fols. 86v-93r: litany, petitions, invocations, and collects; fols. 93v-114v: Office of the Dead; fols. 115v-126v: devotional sequence; fols. 127r-128v: Prayer to Christ, added ca. 1500
4. Text note: Calendar written in textura, two-color scheme of red and faded-brown ink; text written in upright textura, additions by different hands
5. Decoration note: Nineteen miniatures (fourteen original) varying in size from (9-17) lines by the Masters of the Gold Scrolls, Bruges, ca. 1440-50; additions attributed to Rouen, ca. 1500; decorated illuminated initials (2 and 5 lines) opposite miniatures found at text openings, at secondary text divisions, in calendar letters "K L" (2 lines); marginalia typically found at fore-edge: peacock, peahen, songbird; four notable marginalia fol. 25v: owl opposite songbird, fol. 36r: hybrid man wearing cape, fol. 59r: falcon pouncing on hare, fol. 93v: ape with book; heraldry found throughout, especially in added portions of text, heraldry in decorated illuminated initials: two each on fols. 8v and 9v; one each on fols. 8r and 9r; fols. 127v and 128r: heraldry; full-page heraldry: front flyleaf i; borders at text openings paired with miniatures: acanthus often orange/blue and green/grey-blue detailed in gold, sometimes candelabra designs found at fore-edge, symmetrical designs centralized at base; often floral sprigs, gold disks and leaves, marginalia; marginalia in calendar and text left on every page: acanthus in orange and blue or lilac-rose and green, some floral designs, fore-edge on versos filled with airy gold foliate tendril-rinceau with blossoms and berries, spine-edge rectos not typically embellished; rubrics in red, text in dark brown ink

fols. 1r - 6v:

1. Title: Calendar
2. Rubric: Januarius habet dies .xxxi. Luna. xxx.
3. Contents: Originally 1/4 to 1/3 filled; heading format typically 1-2 lines; fol. 5r: appellation "Septembre" in French of note; graded in red and brown; names are often followed by unabbreviated designations (pope, bishop, etc.); original contents indicate Bruges; several additions, mostly in French, ca. 1500; feasts of note include: Amandus (Feb. 6), Benedict (Mar. 20), Romanus (Mar. 30, bishop, parallels for atypical date in Cat. 232: W.164), Valeric (Apr. 1, Translation, Amiens, Paris), Isidore (Apr. 17, bishop, on this date in Sens and Spain), Bernard (Aug. 21), Bertin (Sept. 4), Bavo and Remigius (Oct. 1), Dionysius (Oct. 8, regularly Oct. 9), Venantius (Oct. 11, "Wenandi epi," Oct. 12 in Plummer 1988), Donatian (Oct. 14), Brictius (Nov. 13, "Brixii ep."), Machudd (Nov. 15), Eligius (Dec. 1, not major feast in Plummer 1988)
4. Hand note: Written in textura

fols. 7r - 22v:

1. Title: Devotional Sequence
2. Rubric: Heures de la conception nostre Dame
3. Incipit: Domine labia mea aperies
4. Contents: Hours of the Immaculate Conception; prayer of indulgence of 11,000 years (attributed to pope Sixtus IV: "Ave domina sancta maria mater dei regina celi porta . . ."; prayer attributed to St. Bernard: "O bone ihesu. O dulcis ihesu . . ."; two prayers; seven verses of St. Gregory, grant of Indulgence of 14,000 years for recitation: "O domine iesu xriste adoro te in cruce pendentem . . ."; nineteen suffrages composite of all apostles, several martyrs, one confessor: eleven to male saints and five to female saints, fol. 14r: Florentius, fol. 14v: Eligius, fol. 14v: Nazarius, fol. 15r: Marculf, fol. 15v: Fiacre, fol. 16r: Michael, fol. 16v: John Baptist, fol. 16v: Peter and Paul, fol. 17r: All Apostles, fol. 17v: Several Martyrs, fol. 17v: One Confessor, fol. 18r: Rochus, fol. 18v: Christopher, fol. 19r: Anne, fol. 19r: Barbara, fol. 19v: Catherine, fol. 20r: Apollonia, fol. 20v: Restituta, fol. 21r: Regina, fols. 21v-22r: Communion prayers, first attributed to St. Augustine, opening with rather long heading: "Sequitur oratio sancti augustini in fine vite dicenda . . . Puro corde et ore confiteor te esse uerum deum . . . . Quant on voeult recepuvir le corps de nostre seigneur iesuxrist. Domine non sum dignus ut intres sub tectum meum . . . . Quant on la recev. Uera receptio corporis sanguinis tui . . . ."
5. Hand note: Marginal inscriptions in a different hand
6. Decoration note: Miniature on fols. 7r, 10v, 13r, 14r, 18v; fol. 7r: heraldry, owner Jean of Ricaumez in right border; fol. 14r: heraldry, owners Jean of Ricaumez and his wife Catherine of Barbenchon depicted kneels in lower border; fol. 18v: heraldry, St. Christopher is the namesake of the son of couple depicted on fol. 14r, also heir

fols. 23r - 25r:

1. Title: Hours of the Cross
2. Rubric: Hic incipiunt hore sancte crucis
3. Incipit: Domine labia mea aperies
4. Decoration note: Miniature on fol. 23r

fols. 25v - 27v:

1. Title: Hours of the Holy Spirit
2. Rubric: Incipiunt hore de sancto spiritu
3. Incipit: Domine labia mea aperies
4. Decoration note: Miniature on fol. 25v

fols. 28r - 35v:

1. Title: Mass of the Virgin
2. Rubric: Incipit missa beate marie virginis
3. Incipit: Introibo ad altare dei
4. Contents: Fols. 28r-35v: Mass of the Virgin; fols. 30r-35r: Gospel sequences: John 1:1-14, Luke 1:26-38, Matthew 2:1-12, Mark 16:14-20
5. Decoration note: Miniature on fol. 28r

fols. 36r - 72v:

1. Title: Hours of the Virgin
2. Rubric: Incipiunt hore beate marie virginis secundum consuetudinem romane ecclesiae ad matutias
3. Incipit: Domine labia mea aperies
4. Text note: Fol. 48r: headings at canonical hours beginning "Ad laudes"
5. Hand note: Fol. 55v: text added in different hand; fol. 56r: marginal text, top of folio
6. Decoration note: Miniature on fols. 36r, 48r, 56r, 59r, 64r, 66v, 70v

fols. 73r - 78v:

1. Title: Advent Office of the Virgin
2. Rubric: Officium beate marie virginis quod dicitur per totum ad ventum ad vesperas
3. Incipit: Deus in adiutorium meum intende
4. Decoration note: Miniature on fol. 73r

fols. 79r - 86v:

1. Title: Seven Penitential Psalms
2. Rubric: Incipiunt septem psalmi penitentiales
3. Incipit: Domine reminiscaris. Domine ne in furore
4. Decoration note: Miniature on fol. 79r

fols. 86v - 93r:

1. Title: Litany, petitions, invocations, and collects
2. Rubric: Letania
3. Contents: Includes North French saints; sixteen apostles/evangelists/disciples/innocents, from Peter to Luke; seventeen martyrs, including Lupus, Amandus, Christopher, Blasius, Nicasius, Gereon; eight pontiffs/confessors/doctors including Nicholas, Louis, seven monks/hermits/priests/levites, including Benedict, Bernard, Francis, Leonard, Anthony, Aegydius, Dominic; sixteen "virgines/uidues/continentes" including Mary Magdalene, Mary Egyptian, Agnes, Clare, Elizabeth, Martha, Scholastica, Margaret, Anne, Anastasia, Ursula; fols. 89r-91v: petitions, invocations, Psalm 69; fols. 91v-93r: invocations headed "preces," nine collects headed "oratio"

fols. 93v - 114v:

1. Title: Office of the Dead
2. Rubric: Incipit placebo dilexi quoniam exaudiet Dominus
3. Incipit: Placebo Dilexi quoniam exaudiet
4. Contents: Fol. 114v: closing invocation, formulas, "Partem beate resurrectionis . . . / . . . (explicit) merearitur in celis . . . amen"
5. Decoration note: Miniature on fol. 93v

fols. 115r - 126v:

1. Title: Devotional Sequence
2. Rubric: Oratio ad beatam virginie maria
3. Incipit: Obsecro te domina sancta marie
4. Contents: Three prayers to the Virgin, prayer to the Virgin and Christ in Latin and French, several hands, first prayer followed by Seven Joys of the Virgin; fols. 23r-126v: additions by owners Jean of Ricaumez (d. 1504) and his son Christophe
5. Text note: Added, ca. 1500; fol. 126r: blank, ruled
6. Hand note: Three different hands evident on fols. 115r-122r, 123r-124v, 125r

fols. 127r - 128v:

1. Title: Prayer to Christ
2. Rubric: Oratio Devota
3. Incipit: Domine ihesu christe redemptor mundi
4. Text note: Prayer to Christ added in fifteenth century, different script earlier devotional sequence; Fol. 127r: marginal text; fols. 127v-128r marginal heraldry and marginal text
5. Hand note: Two different hands evident on fols. 128v, 127r-128v

Front flyleaf i, v:

1. 
2. Title: Heraldry
3. Form: Heraldry miniature, 11.3cm
4. Text: Front flyleaf i, v

fol. 7r:

1. 
2. Title: Virgin of the Litanies
3. Form: Miniature, 10 lines
4. Text: Devotional Sequence
5. Comment:

   Owner Jean of Ricaumez in right border

fol. 10v:

1. 
2. Title: Christ Carrying Cross
3. Form: Miniature, 10 lines
4. Text: Devotional Sequence

fol. 13r:

1. 
2. Title: Pietà
3. Form: Miniature, 10 lines
4. Text: Devotional Sequence

fol. 14r:

1. 
2. Title: St. Florentius
3. Form: Miniature, 10 lines
4. Text: Devotional Sequence
5. Comment:

   Jean of Ricaumez and wife, Catherine of Barbenchon, kneeling in lower right border, marginalia

fol. 18v:

1. 
2. Title: St. Christopher
3. Form: Miniature, 9 lines
4. Text: Devotional Sequence
5. Comment:

   St. Christopher, namesake of son of Jean of Ricaumez and Catherine of Barbenchon, the male heir of manuscript

fol. 23r:

1. 
2. Title: Crucifixion
3. Form: Miniature, 17 lines
4. Text: Hours of the Cross

fol. 25v:

1. 
2. Title: Pentecost
3. Form: Miniature, 17 lines
4. Text: Hours of the Holy Spirit

fol. 28r:

1. 
2. Title: Virgin and Child enthroned, attended by two angels
3. Form: Miniature, 17 lines
4. Text: Mass of the Virgin

fol. 36r:

1. 
2. Title: Annunciation
3. Form: Miniature, 17 lines
4. Text: Hours of the Virgin: Matins

fol. 48r:

1. 
2. Title: Visitation
3. Form: Miniature, 17 lines
4. Text: Hours of the Virgin: Lauds

fol. 56r:

1. 
2. Title: Nativity-Adoration
3. Form: Miniature, 17 lines
4. Text: Hours of the Virgin: Prime

fol. 59r:

1. 
2. Title: Annunciation to five shepherds, two dancing with shepherdess
3. Form: Miniature, 17 lines
4. Text: Hours of the Virgin: Terce

fol. 61v:

1. 
2. Title: Adoration of the Magi
3. Form: Miniature, 17 lines
4. Text: Hours of the Virgin: Sext

fol. 64r:

1. 
2. Title: Presentation in the Temple
3. Form: Miniature, 17 lines
4. Text: Hours of the Virgin: None

fol. 66v:

1. 
2. Title: Massacre of the Innocents
3. Form: Miniature, 17 lines
4. Text: Hours of the Virgin: Vespers

fol. 70v:

1. 
2. Title: Flight into Egypt
3. Form: Miniature, 17 lines
4. Text: Hours of the Virgin: Compline

fol. 73r:

1. 
2. Title: Death of the Virgin
3. Form: Miniature, 17 lines
4. Text: Advent Office of the Virgin

fol. 79r:

1. 
2. Title: Last Judgment, Virgin and St. John Evangelist intercessing
3. Form: Miniature, 17 lines
4. Text: Seven Penitential Psalms

fol. 93v:

1. 
2. Title: Funeral Service
3. Form: Miniature, 17 lines
4. Text: Office of the Dead

The binding is not original.

Belgium or France, ca. 1900; crimson velvet over wooden boards; spine format indicates an attempt at rounding and backing; endbands of red and yellow silk (tailbands of red and tan silk) are worked with edge-bead around rolled core, possibly slightly earlier than covers; gilt edges, worn; two catches and clasps, hinged from lower cover, modern; green silk ribbon marker

Bruges, ca. 1440-50; completed for use of Rome, illuminated in the style of Masters of the Gold Scrolls

Barbe de Feuru, signature of owner on front pastedown, ca. 15th century

Jean of Ricaumez and wife Catherine of Barbenchon, owners, ca. 1500

Christophe of Ricaumez, son of Jean of Ricaumez and Catherine of Barbenchon, added portions of text

Count of Hallennes, Allennes family of Tournai (?), dated 1669

Alexandre-Constantin-Joseph of Nassau (1738-1814), armorial bookplate identified by A. Van der Put

Henry Walters, Baltimore, between 1895 and 1931, purchased from Gruel

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest

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. 801, no. 284.

De Ricci, Seymour, and W.J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 2. New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1937; p. 2291.

Dogaer, Georges. Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th Centuries. Amsterdam: B.M. Isaël, 1987; p. 31.

Farquhar, James Douglas. "Manuscript Production and Evidence for Localizing and Dating Fifteenth-Century Books of Hours: Walters Ms. 239." Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 45 (1987): pp. 49, 56, fig. 35.

Sinclair, Keith Val. Prières en ancien Français. Additions et corrections aux articles 1-2374 du Répertoire de Sonet: Supplément. Townsville, Qld., 1987; nos. 1148, 1152, 1153.

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, 1989; pp. 1169-175 (ref. under cat. no. 237, W.282).

Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.

Cataloger: Herbold, Rebekah

Editor: Herbert, Lynley

Copy editor: Dibble, Charles

Contributors: Emery, Doug; Herbold, Rebekah; Noel, William; Tabritha, Ariel; Toth, Michael B.; Wiegand, Kimber

The Walters Art Museum

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