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 Psalter was made for Franciscan use in Cologne in the late thirteenth century. It was owned in the late fifteenth or sixteenth century by the Augustinian nuns of St. Cecilia in Cologne, who added the calendar, the Breviary texts, prayers, and the Collect at the end. The manuscript is written in Latin and in the Ripuarisch dialect spoken in the Cologne region. The style of the historiated initials, as well as that of the bar borders topped with grotesques, closely resembles the style of Walters Ms. W.41 and of the two graduals made for the Franciscans of Cologne in 1299 by Johannes von Valkenburg (Cologne, Diözesanbibliothek, Ms. 1B, and Bonn, Universitätsbibliothek, Ms. 384). It is a well-preserved example of High Gothic illumination in Cologne.
Gothic bookhand (textura)
Principal cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Principal cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Dibble, Charles
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Davis, Lisa Fagin
Contributor: Dutschke, Consuelo
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Hamburger, Jeffrey
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
De Ricci, Seymour. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1935, vol. 1, p. 772, cat. no. 95
Oliver, Judith. "The Mosan Origin of Johannes von Valkenburg." Wallraf Richartz Jahrbuch 40 (1978): pp. 23-37, pp. 27-30 (fol. 24r)
Oliver, Judith. "The French Gothic Style in Cologne: Manuscripts before Johannes von Valkenburg." Vol. 1, Miscellanea Neerlandica: Opstellen voor Dr. Jan Deschamps ter Gelegenheid van Zijn Zeventigste Verjaardag, edited by Elly Cokx-Indestege and Frans Hendrickx. Leuven: E. Peeters, 1987, pp. 381-396, p. 394.
Oliver, Judith. Gothic Manuscript Illumination in the Diocese of Liège (ca. 1250-1330). Vol. 1. Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters, 1988, p. 176
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.
Cologne, Germany
Late 13th century CE
book
Non-original Binding
Flemish, sixteenth century, beech boards covered in brown calf leather, blind-tooled Renaissance motifs; corner and edges of binding restored; one sixteenth-century brass clasp remaining; Turk head fore-edge markers made of parchment in red, white, and blue
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is German.
Made for Franciscan use in Cologne, Germany, late thirteenth century; Ripuarisch dialect points to Cologne region
Nuns of St. Cecilia in Cologne, late fifteenth or sixteenth century; nuns added fols. 1-23 and 261; Cologne rubric on fol. 21r; suffrage to St. Cecilia on fol. 23v, and calendar has rubricated feast of St. Cecilia on fol. 6v: summum festum
Susanna Koull, seventeenth century; her name on front pastedown and Koull-Binsfelt family obits in calendar on fols. 6r-7r
Henry Walters, Baltimore, before 1931, obtained from L.S. Olschki no. 24; bookplate on front pastedown
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Cologne, Germany
Late 13th century CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is German.
Made for Franciscan use in Cologne, Germany, late thirteenth century; Ripuarisch dialect points to Cologne region
Nuns of St. Cecilia in Cologne, late fifteenth or sixteenth century; nuns added fols. 1-23 and 261; Cologne rubric on fol. 21r; suffrage to St. Cecilia on fol. 23v, and calendar has rubricated feast of St. Cecilia on fol. 6v: summum festum
Susanna Koull, seventeenth century; her name on front pastedown and Koull-Binsfelt family obits in calendar on fols. 6r-7r
Henry Walters, Baltimore, before 1931, obtained from L.S. Olschki no. 24; bookplate on front pastedown
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This Psalter was made for Franciscan use in Cologne in the late thirteenth century. It was owned in the late fifteenth or sixteenth century by the Augustinian nuns of St. Cecilia in Cologne, who added the calendar, the Breviary texts, prayers, and the Collect at the end. The manuscript is written in Latin and in the Ripuarisch dialect spoken in the Cologne region. The style of the historiated initials, as well as that of the bar borders topped with grotesques, closely resembles the style of Walters Ms. W.41 and of the two graduals made for the Franciscans of Cologne in 1299 by Johannes von Valkenburg (Cologne, Diözesanbibliothek, Ms. 1B, and Bonn, Universitätsbibliothek, Ms. 384). It is a well-preserved example of High Gothic illumination in Cologne.
Gothic bookhand (textura)
Principal cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Principal cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Dibble, Charles
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Davis, Lisa Fagin
Contributor: Dutschke, Consuelo
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Hamburger, Jeffrey
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
De Ricci, Seymour. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1935, vol. 1, p. 772, cat. no. 95
Oliver, Judith. "The Mosan Origin of Johannes von Valkenburg." Wallraf Richartz Jahrbuch 40 (1978): pp. 23-37, pp. 27-30 (fol. 24r)
Oliver, Judith. "The French Gothic Style in Cologne: Manuscripts before Johannes von Valkenburg." Vol. 1, Miscellanea Neerlandica: Opstellen voor Dr. Jan Deschamps ter Gelegenheid van Zijn Zeventigste Verjaardag, edited by Elly Cokx-Indestege and Frans Hendrickx. Leuven: E. Peeters, 1987, pp. 381-396, p. 394.
Oliver, Judith. Gothic Manuscript Illumination in the Diocese of Liège (ca. 1250-1330). Vol. 1. Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters, 1988, p. 176
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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