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.
This Book of Hours was created in northeastern France ca. 1340, possibly for the marriage that year of Louis II of Châtillon (d. 1346) and Jeanne of Hainaut, as the Châtillon de Blois arms are depicted on fols. 19r and 81v, and the arms of Hainaut also appear in the borders, including in conjunction with the Châtillon arms on fol. 19r. The manuscript is exceptional for the abundance of drolleries and lively hybrids that inhabit nearly every page. Stylistically these images have been linked to a workshop in the Artois region, possibly based in Arras, and related manuscripts were traced by Carl Nordenfalk in his 1979 publication. Although the manuscript is incomplete, lacking its calendar and likely some images, its surviving illumination provides an excellent example of the playfulness of art during this period.
Two different sixteenth-century hands
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Schuele, Allyson
Contributor: Sedovic, Katherine
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Owens, M.B. "Musical Subjects in the Illumination of Books of Hours from Fifteenth-Century France and Flanders." Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1987; pp. 380-382 (figs. 5, 6).
Verdier, P. "Woman in the Marginalia of Gothic Manuscripts and Related Works." In The Role of Women in the Middle Ages, edited by R. T. Morewedge, 123-133. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1975 (fig. 10).
Randall, Lillian M.C. Images in the Margins of Gothic Manuscripts. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1966; p. 38 and passim (figs. II, 123).
Lane, Barbara Greenhouse. "The Development of the Medieval Devotional Figure." Ph.D. diss., University of Pennsylvania, 1971; p. 175, fig. 197.
Nordenfalk, C. Bokmålningar från medeltid och renässans i Nationalmusei samlingar. Stockholm, 1979; referenced under no. 13, fig. 212.
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. 784, cat. no. 172.
Wieck, Roger S. Time Sanctified: The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life, exhibition catalogue. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1988; cat. no. 8, fig 72.
Lewis, Suzanne. Beyond the Frame: Marginal Figures and Historiated Initials in the Getty Apocalypse. The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 20 (1992): 53-76; pp. 75-76 (n. 16 for p. 63).
Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 1, France, 875-1420. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1997; pp. 142-145, cat. no. 55.
De Beaumanoir, Philippe. Le Roman de la Manekine. Amsterdam: Rodopi Publishers, 1999; pp. xvi-xvii (figs. 48-49), 32-34, 37.
Smeyers, Mauritius. Flemish Miniatures from the 8th to the mid-16th Century: The Medieval World on Parchment. Turnhout: Brepols, 1999; pp. 125-127 (fig. 21), 172.
Bennett, Adelaide. "Continuity and Change in the Religious Book Culture of the Lowlands in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries." In Medieval Mastery: Book Illumination from Charlemagne to Charles the Bold (800-1475), edited by William Noel and Lee Preedy, 167-179. Turnhout: Brepols, 2002; p. 178.
Caviness, Madeline H. Reframing Medieval Art: Difference, Margins, Boundaries. Medford, MA: Tufts University Press, 2001. Electronic book. http://dca.lib.tufts.edu/caviness/abstract.html; chapter 3.
Nevins, Teresa. "Psalter--Book of Hours." In Medieval Mastery: Book Illumination from Charlemagne to Charles the Bold (800-1475), edited by William Noel and Lee Preedy. Turnhout: Brepols, 2002; pp. 226-227, cat. no. 49.
Noel, William. "Books in the Home: Psalters and Books of Hours." In Medieval Mastery: Book Illumination from Charlemagne to Charles the Bold (800-1475), edited by William Noel and Lee Preedy, 57-67. Turnhout: Brepols, 2002; pp. 62, 63 (fig. 10).
Bütner, F.O. "Form and History: Der illuminierte Psalter im Westen." In The Illuminated Psalter, edited by F.O. Bütner, 1-106. Turnhout: Brepols, 2004; p. 39 (n. 3).
Mellinkoff, Ruth. Averting Demons. Los Angeles: Ruth Mellinkoff Publications, 2004; p. 84 (fig. II.36).
Lermer, Andrea. Der gotische "Dogenpalaste" in Venedig. Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2005; p. 344, no. 91, fig. 28.
Snyder, Susan, and Deborah T. Curren-Aquino (eds.). The Winter's Tale. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007, p. 4.
Logemann, Cornelia. Heilige Ordnungen: Die Bild-Räume der "Vie de Saint Denis" (1317) und die französische Buchmalerei des 14 Jahrhunderts. Cologne: Böhlau, 2007; p. 206
Wirth, Jean, and Isabelle Engammare. Les marges à drôleries des manuscrits gothiques, 1250-1350. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2008; p. 212.
Guest, Gerald B. "Illuminated Manuscripts as Machines." Manuscripta 55, no. 2 (2011): 139-169; pp. 163-164, fig. 6, fol. 28r.
Dillon, Emma. The Sense of Sound: Musical Meaning in France, 1260-1330. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012; pp. 204-205 (fig. 6.8), 215-216 (fig. 6.16)
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.
Northeast France
Ca. 1340 CE
book
Non-original Binding
French seventeenth-century brown calf decorated on sides with oval wreathes on both boards and gilt fillets at the edges; edges regilt; spine with four compartments containing gilt floral and foliate motif; nineteenth- or early twentieth-century brown case decorated with gilt fleurs-de-lis on upper cover and gilt inscription: "livre / d'heures / de / Marie de Hainaut / et de / Louis de Chastillon / 1300-1310"
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is French, Old (842-ca.1400).
Created ca. 1340 for Use of Arras and Paris, possibly for the marriage that year of Louis II of Châtillon
Heraldic bookplate of unidentified owner added ca. 1600 at time of rebinding, with rampant lion on blue shield flanked by larger lions
Motto "En espoyr vi" inscribed on fol. 113r, added presumably along with text in sixteenth century by unknown owner
Inscribed by later owner "au L Fr. Pri por nous P. Pinay
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from unknown source between 1895 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Northeast France
Ca. 1340 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is French, Old (842-ca.1400).
Created ca. 1340 for Use of Arras and Paris, possibly for the marriage that year of Louis II of Châtillon
Heraldic bookplate of unidentified owner added ca. 1600 at time of rebinding, with rampant lion on blue shield flanked by larger lions
Motto "En espoyr vi" inscribed on fol. 113r, added presumably along with text in sixteenth century by unknown owner
Inscribed by later owner "au L Fr. Pri por nous P. Pinay
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from unknown source between 1895 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This Book of Hours was created in northeastern France ca. 1340, possibly for the marriage that year of Louis II of Châtillon (d. 1346) and Jeanne of Hainaut, as the Châtillon de Blois arms are depicted on fols. 19r and 81v, and the arms of Hainaut also appear in the borders, including in conjunction with the Châtillon arms on fol. 19r. The manuscript is exceptional for the abundance of drolleries and lively hybrids that inhabit nearly every page. Stylistically these images have been linked to a workshop in the Artois region, possibly based in Arras, and related manuscripts were traced by Carl Nordenfalk in his 1979 publication. Although the manuscript is incomplete, lacking its calendar and likely some images, its surviving illumination provides an excellent example of the playfulness of art during this period.
Two different sixteenth-century hands
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Schuele, Allyson
Contributor: Sedovic, Katherine
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Owens, M.B. "Musical Subjects in the Illumination of Books of Hours from Fifteenth-Century France and Flanders." Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1987; pp. 380-382 (figs. 5, 6).
Verdier, P. "Woman in the Marginalia of Gothic Manuscripts and Related Works." In The Role of Women in the Middle Ages, edited by R. T. Morewedge, 123-133. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1975 (fig. 10).
Randall, Lillian M.C. Images in the Margins of Gothic Manuscripts. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1966; p. 38 and passim (figs. II, 123).
Lane, Barbara Greenhouse. "The Development of the Medieval Devotional Figure." Ph.D. diss., University of Pennsylvania, 1971; p. 175, fig. 197.
Nordenfalk, C. Bokmålningar från medeltid och renässans i Nationalmusei samlingar. Stockholm, 1979; referenced under no. 13, fig. 212.
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. 784, cat. no. 172.
Wieck, Roger S. Time Sanctified: The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life, exhibition catalogue. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1988; cat. no. 8, fig 72.
Lewis, Suzanne. Beyond the Frame: Marginal Figures and Historiated Initials in the Getty Apocalypse. The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 20 (1992): 53-76; pp. 75-76 (n. 16 for p. 63).
Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 1, France, 875-1420. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1997; pp. 142-145, cat. no. 55.
De Beaumanoir, Philippe. Le Roman de la Manekine. Amsterdam: Rodopi Publishers, 1999; pp. xvi-xvii (figs. 48-49), 32-34, 37.
Smeyers, Mauritius. Flemish Miniatures from the 8th to the mid-16th Century: The Medieval World on Parchment. Turnhout: Brepols, 1999; pp. 125-127 (fig. 21), 172.
Bennett, Adelaide. "Continuity and Change in the Religious Book Culture of the Lowlands in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries." In Medieval Mastery: Book Illumination from Charlemagne to Charles the Bold (800-1475), edited by William Noel and Lee Preedy, 167-179. Turnhout: Brepols, 2002; p. 178.
Caviness, Madeline H. Reframing Medieval Art: Difference, Margins, Boundaries. Medford, MA: Tufts University Press, 2001. Electronic book. http://dca.lib.tufts.edu/caviness/abstract.html; chapter 3.
Nevins, Teresa. "Psalter--Book of Hours." In Medieval Mastery: Book Illumination from Charlemagne to Charles the Bold (800-1475), edited by William Noel and Lee Preedy. Turnhout: Brepols, 2002; pp. 226-227, cat. no. 49.
Noel, William. "Books in the Home: Psalters and Books of Hours." In Medieval Mastery: Book Illumination from Charlemagne to Charles the Bold (800-1475), edited by William Noel and Lee Preedy, 57-67. Turnhout: Brepols, 2002; pp. 62, 63 (fig. 10).
Bütner, F.O. "Form and History: Der illuminierte Psalter im Westen." In The Illuminated Psalter, edited by F.O. Bütner, 1-106. Turnhout: Brepols, 2004; p. 39 (n. 3).
Mellinkoff, Ruth. Averting Demons. Los Angeles: Ruth Mellinkoff Publications, 2004; p. 84 (fig. II.36).
Lermer, Andrea. Der gotische "Dogenpalaste" in Venedig. Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2005; p. 344, no. 91, fig. 28.
Snyder, Susan, and Deborah T. Curren-Aquino (eds.). The Winter's Tale. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007, p. 4.
Logemann, Cornelia. Heilige Ordnungen: Die Bild-Räume der "Vie de Saint Denis" (1317) und die französische Buchmalerei des 14 Jahrhunderts. Cologne: Böhlau, 2007; p. 206
Wirth, Jean, and Isabelle Engammare. Les marges à drôleries des manuscrits gothiques, 1250-1350. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2008; p. 212.
Guest, Gerald B. "Illuminated Manuscripts as Machines." Manuscripta 55, no. 2 (2011): 139-169; pp. 163-164, fig. 6, fol. 28r.
Dillon, Emma. The Sense of Sound: Musical Meaning in France, 1260-1330. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012; pp. 204-205 (fig. 6.8), 215-216 (fig. 6.16)
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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