Released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcodePublished 2013

A digital facsimile of selections fromWalters Ms. W.764, Vienna book of hours

Published by: The Walters Art Museum600 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21201

http://www.thewalters.org/

This document is a digital facsimile of selections from a manuscript belonging to the Walters ArtMuseum, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscriptsthat have been digitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment forthe Humanities, and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details aboutthe manuscripts at the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's websitewww.thewalters.org. For further information about this book, and online resources for Waltersmanuscripts, please contact us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message tobe directed to the Department of Manuscripts.

Generated: 2013-04-03 15:46 -04:00

Shelf mark Walters Art Museum Ms. W.764

Descriptive Title Vienna book of hours

Text title Book of hours

Abstract This book of hours was written in German in Vienna,Austria, ca. 1460-65. It is one of a series of manuscriptscommissioned at the court of Emperor Frederick III ofAustria (1415-1493), some of which were made for his son,Prince Maximilian (1459-1519). The name of the artist isunknown, but due to his connection with these commissions,he is known as the Master of the Maximilian Schoolbooks.Unfortunately, only three of the original sixteen full-page,richly painted miniatures remain in this manuscript, but tenof the missing folios have been identified. Nine cuttings arein the Musée Bonnat, Bayonne, France (inv. nr. 1244-1252),and one cutting is in the Cleveland Museum of Art (DudleyP. Allen Fund Accession 1959.40). Other related manuscriptsinclude Vienna, Nationalbibliothek Codicies 2368, 2617, and2289.

Date Ca. 1460 CE

Origin Vienna, Austria

Artist Supplied name: Master of the Maximilian SchoolbooksKnown as: Master of the Schoolbooks

Form Book

Genre Devotional

Language The primary language in this manuscript is German, MiddleHigh (ca.1050-1500). The secondary language of thismanuscript is Latin.

Support material Parchment

Medium-weight, clean, cream-colored parchment, wellfinished

Extent Foliation: ii+200+iiModern pencil foliation in upper right corners of rectos;flyleaves of modern parchment

Generated: 2013-04-03 15:46 -04:00

Collation Formula: ii, 1(12), 2(8), 3(10), 4(8), 5(10,-10), 6(10,-10),7-8(8), 9(10,-1), 10-20(10), 21(10,-10), ii

Catchwords: None

Signatures: None

Comments: Misbound and incomplete; quires begin on fols.1(1), 13(2), 21(3), 31(4), 39(5), 48(6), 57(7), 65(8), 73(9),82(10), 92(11), 102(12), 112(13), 122(14), 132(15), 142(16),152(17), 162(18), 172(19), 182(20), 192(21); all leavestipped in for quires 2, 5, and 6; outer leaves tipped in for quire7; inner four leaves tipped in for quire 8; fols. 31-41 shouldcome before fol. 13

Dimensions 11.8 cm wide by 16.8 cm high

Written surface 7.2 cm wide by 11.0 cm high

Layout Columns: 1Ruled lines: 17-18Ruled in brown ink

Contents fols. 1r - 200v:Title: Book of hoursHand note: Written in hybrid Gothic bookhand withsome cursive aspects, in two sizesDecoration note: Thirteen full-page miniaturesmissing; three extant full-page miniatures; twenty-fivelarge decorated initials (3-7 lines), some with floweringtendrils; KL in calendar in alternating red and blue (3lines); smaller initials in red and blue throughout the text(1-2 lines); rubrics in red; text in black ink

fols. 1r - 12v:Title: CalendarRubric: Jenner hat xxxi Tag a die besneidung ChristiText note: Calendar one-third to one-half full, graded inblack and red

fols. 13v - 55v:Title: Hours of the VirginRubric: Tagczeit von unserer Lieben frawn Schidung.Von erst die Metten

Generated: 2013-04-03 15:46 -04:00

Incipit: Herre tue auf mein LebsenContents: Misbound; fols. 31r-38v: matins; fols.38v-41r: lauds; fols. 14r-16v: prime; fols. 17r-19v:terce; fols. 20r-30v: sext; fols. 42r-44v: none; fols.45r-51v: vespers; fols. 52r-55v: complineDecoration note: Full-page miniature on fol. 13v; largedecorated initials marking incipits on fols. 14r, 17r, 20r,31r, 42r, 45r, and 52r

fols. 56r - 79r:Title: Hours of the CrossRubric: Hie hebt sich an die Tagczeit von unsers herrenMarter. Von erst die MettenIncipit: Herre tu auf mein LebsenDecoration note: Full-page miniatures on fols. 66v and76v; large decorated initials marking incipits on fols.56r, 64r, 67r, 69r, 71r, 73r, and 77r

fols. 80r - 107r:Title: Vigils of the Holy SpiritRubric: Hie hebt sich an die Vigili von allen gelaubigenSelenIncipit: Diten wir umballDecoration note: Large decorated initial on fol. 80r

fols. 107v - 108r:Title: Prayer of the Three KingsRubric: Das Oppfer der heiligen dreyer Kunig sprichdicz gepetIncipit: Emphach hewt werder hymelischer Vater

fols. 109r - 122r:Title: Seven Penitential Psalms and litanyRubric: Hie hebent sich an die Suben Puess Psalmenvon erst antiffenDecoration note: Large decorated initial on fol. 109r

fols. 122r - 199r:Title: PrayersRubric: Das gepetIncipit: Almochtiger parmiherziger

Generated: 2013-04-03 15:46 -04:00

Contents: Notable prayers: fols. 125v-127v: prayers toMary, one's angel, and St. George; fols. 128r-129v:prayer to St. Catherine; fols. 129v-133r: prayer to thePassion of Christ and Good Friday; fols. 133r-135r:prayer to Mary; fols. 135r-136r: prayer for God'sblessing; fols. 136r-140v: prayer composed by St.Augustine; fols. 140v-143v: St. Augustine prayer;fols. 143v-146r: prayer for St. Ambrosius(?); fols.146r-158r: prayers; fols. 158r-161r: prayers to St.Anselm and Mary; fols. 161r-166v: prayers to St.Anselm and Mary; fols. 166v-171r: special prayer toMary; fols. 172r-197r: prayer of penance and otherprayers; fol. 198r-199r: prayer to John the EvangelistDecoration note: Large decorated initial with tendrilson fol. 166v; smaller decorated initials on fols. 128r,129v, 133r, 136v, and 158r

fols. 200r - 200v:Title: Added prayer to St. ChristopherContents: Prayer added to a blank folio in the sixteenthcentury

Decoration fol. 13v:Title: Virgin and ChildForm: Full-page miniatureText: Hours of the Virgin: primeLabel: This image would have originally been facingthe incipit for matins, but the manuscript was misbound.

fol. 66v:Title: Christ Carrying the CrossForm: Full-page miniatureText: Hours of the Cross: terce

fol. 76v:Title: EntombmentForm: Full-page miniatureText: Hours of the Cross: compline

Binding The binding is not original.

Generated: 2013-04-03 15:46 -04:00

Rebound by Abigail Quandt, Walters Art Museum, 1985,with white goatskin over wooden boards and two wovenclasps with metal fittings; previous binding eighteenth-century green silk over heavy pasteboard (now housedseparately)

Provenance Vienna, Austria, ca. 1460-65, with illuminations bythe Master of the Maximilian Schoolbooks (probablycommissioned by a member of the court of EmperorFrederick III of Austria [1415-1493] for his son PrinceMaximilian [1459-1519] due to its similarity to othermanuscripts made for him)

Bernard Quaritch, London, 1910 (no. 238)

C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, November 28, 1912 (Auction CX)

Jacques Rosenthal, Munich, 1928 (Catalog 90, no. 196) and1929 (Catalog 91, no. 6)

Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, purchased from H. P. Krauss,New York, 1959 (Catalog 88, no. 14)

Acquisition Museum purchase, January 1959

Bibliography Bibliotheca Medii Aevi Manuscripta. Pars Altera:Einhundert Handschriften des Mittelalters vom zehntenbis zum fünfzehnten Jahrhunderts 90. Munich: JacquesRosenthal, 1928, pp. 116-17, no. 196, pl. 20.

Holter, Kurt. "Gotische Buchmalerei im südostdeutschenRaum." Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen 57 (1940): 23-35,no. 2.

Faye, C. U., and W. H. Bond. Supplement to the Census ofMedieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United Statesand Canada. New York: Bibliographical Society of America,1962, p. 200, no. 578.

Miner, Dorothy. "Since de Ricci--Western IlluminatedManuscripts Acquired since 1934: A Report in Two Parts:Part 1." Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 29-30 (1966):68-103, figs. 19-21 (fols. 13v, 66v, 76v)

Generated: 2013-04-03 15:46 -04:00

Bulletin Codicologique. Scriptorium 26 (1972): 130-246; no.402.

Hamburger, Jeffrey. "Bosch's Conjuror: An Attack on Magicand Sacramental Heresy." Simiolus 14, no. 1 (1984): 4-23,no. 41.

Cermann, Regina. Katalog der dutschprachigen illustriertenHandschriften des Mittelalters 5. Munich: Veröffentlichungder Kommission für deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters derBayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2002, pp. 28-32.

Pfändtner, Karl-Georg. "The Long-Lost Cuttings of aFifteenth-Century Austrian Prayerbook (W.764) in theWalters Art Museum." Journal of the Walters Art Museum64 (2005): 103-8.

Contributors Principal cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff andresearchers since 1934Catalogers: Herbert, Lynley; Walters Art Museum curatorialstaff and researchers since 1934Editors: Herbert, Lynley; Noel, WilliamCopy editor: Bockrath, DianeConservators: Owen, Linda; Quandt, AbigailContributors: Bockrath, Diane; Dutschke, Consuelo; Emery,Doug; Hamburger, Jeffrey; Noel, William; Tabritha, Ariel;Toth, Michael B.

This document is a digital facsimile of selections from a manuscript belonging to the Walters ArtMuseum, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscriptsthat have been digitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment forthe Humanities, and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details aboutthe manuscripts at the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's websitewww.thewalters.org. For further information about this book, and online resources for Waltersmanuscripts, please contact us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message tobe directed to the Department of Manuscripts.

Released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcodePublished 2013

The Walters Art Museum600 N. Charles StreetBaltimore, Maryland

21201http://www.thewalters.org/