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 manuscript comprises twenty-four leaves of Bible pictures by W. de Brailes, an English artist active in Oxford in the middle of the thirteenth century. Seven leaves from the same set of images are now in the Musée Marmottan in Paris. These thirty-one leaves are all that remain of an image cycle that once contained at least ninety-eight miniatures, and which was the longest cycle of Bible miniatures surviving from the thirteenth century in England. In all probability these Bible pictures were actually prefatory matter to a Psalter, now Stockholm, National Museum Ms. B.2010. De Brailes also composed and wrote the captions that accompany many of the images, a pattern of production observable in other manuscripts made by him, including London, British Library Ms. Add. 49999, a richly illuminated Book of Hours apparently intended for a female owner. W. de Brailes is one of only two English artists of the thirteenth century whose name we can associate with surviving works. Eleven manuscripts have been identified that contain miniatures in his hand. De Brailes has a quirky and chatty style and is extremely gifted at turning Bible stories into paint.
Written in small-format, semi-formal Gothic script
artist: W. de Brailes
Principal cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Principal cataloger: Noel, William
Principal cataloger: Smith, Kathryn
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Dutschke, Consuelo
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Grollemond, Larisa
Contributor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Pizzinato, Riccardo
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Randall, Richard H. Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery. New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1985, p. 220, no. 314.
Randall, Lilian M. C. "En Route to Salvation with William de Brailes." In Medieval Codicology, Iconography, Literature, and Translation: Studies for Keith Val Sinclair. Peter Rolfe Monks and D. D. R. Owen, eds. Leiden, The Netherlands and New York: E. J. Brill, 1994, pp. 83-93.
Cockerell, Sydney C. The Work of W. de Brailes, an English Illuminator of the Thirteenth Century. Cambridge: Roxburghe Club, 1930.
Morgan, Nigel. “Old Testament Illustration in Thirteenth-Century England.” In The Bible in the Middle Ages: Its Influence on Literature and Art. Bernard S. Levy, ed. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, LXXXIX (1992), 149-98.
Millar, E. "Additional Miniatures by W. de Brailes." Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 2 (1939): 106-109.
Noel, William. The Oxford Bible Pictures. Luzern, Switzerland: Faksimile Verlag in association with the Walters Art Museum, 2004.
Noel, William. “William de Brailes in Baltimore, Paris, and Stockholm." In Tributes in Honor of James Marrow: Studies in Painting and Manuscript Illumination of the Late Middle Ages and Northern Renaissance. Jeffrey F. Hamburger and A. S. Korteweg, eds. London: Harvey Miller, 2006, pp. 353-359.
Swarzenski, H. "Unknown Bible Pictures by W. de Brailes and Some Notes on Early English Bible Illustration." Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 1 (1938): 55-69.
Morgan, N. J. Early Gothic Manuscripts. Vol. 1, 1190-1250. A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles 5. London: Harvey Miller, 1982, no. 71.
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.
Oxford, England
Ca. 1250 CE
book
Non-original Binding
Early twentieth-century binding by Leon Gruel, Paris; shaped millboard, covered in worn red velvet incorporating a double-sided, fourteenth-century Rhenish ivory on the upper board; upper board outside depicts the Nativity; upper board inside depicts the Crucifixion
The primary language in this manuscript is French, Old (842-ca.1400).
Edith Corf, Prioress of Tarent Kaines, Dorset, fourteenth century
Stockholm, National Museum Ms. B.2010
Léon Gruel, Paris, by purchase, late nineteenth or early twentieth century
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel in 1906
The Walters Art Museum, by Henry Walters bequest, 1931
Oxford, England
Ca. 1250 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is French, Old (842-ca.1400).
Edith Corf, Prioress of Tarent Kaines, Dorset, fourteenth century
Stockholm, National Museum Ms. B.2010
Léon Gruel, Paris, by purchase, late nineteenth or early twentieth century
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel in 1906
The Walters Art Museum, by Henry Walters bequest, 1931
This manuscript comprises twenty-four leaves of Bible pictures by W. de Brailes, an English artist active in Oxford in the middle of the thirteenth century. Seven leaves from the same set of images are now in the Musée Marmottan in Paris. These thirty-one leaves are all that remain of an image cycle that once contained at least ninety-eight miniatures, and which was the longest cycle of Bible miniatures surviving from the thirteenth century in England. In all probability these Bible pictures were actually prefatory matter to a Psalter, now Stockholm, National Museum Ms. B.2010. De Brailes also composed and wrote the captions that accompany many of the images, a pattern of production observable in other manuscripts made by him, including London, British Library Ms. Add. 49999, a richly illuminated Book of Hours apparently intended for a female owner. W. de Brailes is one of only two English artists of the thirteenth century whose name we can associate with surviving works. Eleven manuscripts have been identified that contain miniatures in his hand. De Brailes has a quirky and chatty style and is extremely gifted at turning Bible stories into paint.
Written in small-format, semi-formal Gothic script
artist: W. de Brailes
Principal cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Principal cataloger: Noel, William
Principal cataloger: Smith, Kathryn
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Dutschke, Consuelo
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Grollemond, Larisa
Contributor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Pizzinato, Riccardo
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Randall, Richard H. Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery. New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1985, p. 220, no. 314.
Randall, Lilian M. C. "En Route to Salvation with William de Brailes." In Medieval Codicology, Iconography, Literature, and Translation: Studies for Keith Val Sinclair. Peter Rolfe Monks and D. D. R. Owen, eds. Leiden, The Netherlands and New York: E. J. Brill, 1994, pp. 83-93.
Cockerell, Sydney C. The Work of W. de Brailes, an English Illuminator of the Thirteenth Century. Cambridge: Roxburghe Club, 1930.
Morgan, Nigel. “Old Testament Illustration in Thirteenth-Century England.” In The Bible in the Middle Ages: Its Influence on Literature and Art. Bernard S. Levy, ed. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, LXXXIX (1992), 149-98.
Millar, E. "Additional Miniatures by W. de Brailes." Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 2 (1939): 106-109.
Noel, William. The Oxford Bible Pictures. Luzern, Switzerland: Faksimile Verlag in association with the Walters Art Museum, 2004.
Noel, William. “William de Brailes in Baltimore, Paris, and Stockholm." In Tributes in Honor of James Marrow: Studies in Painting and Manuscript Illumination of the Late Middle Ages and Northern Renaissance. Jeffrey F. Hamburger and A. S. Korteweg, eds. London: Harvey Miller, 2006, pp. 353-359.
Swarzenski, H. "Unknown Bible Pictures by W. de Brailes and Some Notes on Early English Bible Illustration." Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 1 (1938): 55-69.
Morgan, N. J. Early Gothic Manuscripts. Vol. 1, 1190-1250. A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles 5. London: Harvey Miller, 1982, no. 71.
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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