The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
Completed in Brittany in the early tenth century, this Gospel Book features three full-page miniatures and four large decorated initials. Reliance on a Carolingian model influenced by the Tours school of illumination is shown in the poses of the three extant evangelist portraits. Jonathan Alexander has suggested significant similarities between four other Gospel Books and W.1, all completed between the late ninth century and early tenth century (see Alexander, 1986). One Gospel Book in particular, Alençon 84, appears to have been produced in the same scriptorium as W.1, possibly by the same artists.
Written in Carolingian miniscule
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbold, Rebekah
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbold, Rebekah
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
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. 767, cat. no. 61.
L.M. Micheli, L'enluminure du haut moyen âge et les influences irlandais. (Brussels, 1939), p. 99
F. Wormald, An Early Breton Gospel-Book: A Ninth-Century Manuscript from the Collection of H.L. Bradfer-Lawrence (1887-1965), ed. J.J.G. Alexander (Cambridge, Roxburghe Club, 1977), pp. 15-22, passim
J.J.G. Alexander, "La résistance à la domination culturelle carolingienne dans l'art breton du IXe siècle: Le témoignage de l'enluminure des manuscrits," Landévennec et le monachisme breton dans le haut moyen âge. Actes du colloque du 15th centenaire de l'abbaye de Landévennec, 25-26-27 April 1985 (Bannalec, 1986), pp. 270-271, Fig. 3 (fol. 124v)
J.L. Deuffic, "La production manuscrite des scriptoria bretons," ibid., p. 294
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.
Brittany
Ca. 900-25 CE
book
Non-original Binding
Modern vellum, New York: Macdonald, 1949; replacing green calf binding applied in Limoges, ca. nineteenth century
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Created ca. 900-925 in Brittany
Malevergne de Lafaye, 1838, notary in Limoges; his ownership entry recording purchase of codex for 50 francs on March 20, 1838
Léon or Paul Gruel, Paris, ca. late eighteenth century or early nineteenth century; firm's sale slip numbered "1304" in file
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Brittany
Ca. 900-25 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Created ca. 900-925 in Brittany
Malevergne de Lafaye, 1838, notary in Limoges; his ownership entry recording purchase of codex for 50 francs on March 20, 1838
Léon or Paul Gruel, Paris, ca. late eighteenth century or early nineteenth century; firm's sale slip numbered "1304" in file
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Completed in Brittany in the early tenth century, this Gospel Book features three full-page miniatures and four large decorated initials. Reliance on a Carolingian model influenced by the Tours school of illumination is shown in the poses of the three extant evangelist portraits. Jonathan Alexander has suggested significant similarities between four other Gospel Books and W.1, all completed between the late ninth century and early tenth century (see Alexander, 1986). One Gospel Book in particular, Alençon 84, appears to have been produced in the same scriptorium as W.1, possibly by the same artists.
Written in Carolingian miniscule
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbold, Rebekah
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbold, Rebekah
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
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. 767, cat. no. 61.
L.M. Micheli, L'enluminure du haut moyen âge et les influences irlandais. (Brussels, 1939), p. 99
F. Wormald, An Early Breton Gospel-Book: A Ninth-Century Manuscript from the Collection of H.L. Bradfer-Lawrence (1887-1965), ed. J.J.G. Alexander (Cambridge, Roxburghe Club, 1977), pp. 15-22, passim
J.J.G. Alexander, "La résistance à la domination culturelle carolingienne dans l'art breton du IXe siècle: Le témoignage de l'enluminure des manuscrits," Landévennec et le monachisme breton dans le haut moyen âge. Actes du colloque du 15th centenaire de l'abbaye de Landévennec, 25-26-27 April 1985 (Bannalec, 1986), pp. 270-271, Fig. 3 (fol. 124v)
J.L. Deuffic, "La production manuscrite des scriptoria bretons," ibid., p. 294
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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