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, dating to the last quarter of the thirteenth century, was made in French Flanders for use in the diocese of Metz. Originally part of a Psalter-Hours, the two parts of the book were separated long ago and bound separately in the eighteenth century. The Hours half has recently been identified by François Avril as belonging to the Bibliothèque nationale de France, where it is n.a. Lat. 915. The Psalter component is heavily decorated, containing historiated initials as well as borders and line fillers full of hybrid creatures and grotesques.
Compressed textura, at times closer to quadrata or semi-quadrata; calendar and main text by two different hands
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbold, Rebekah
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
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. 772, cat. no. 97.
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, 1989; pp. 86-88, cat. no. 37.
Avril, Francois. "915 N.A.: Leroquais, Heures, II, 277-278." In Fichier bibliographique des manuscrits latins et grecs. Nal 770-1196. Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 2009; p. 343. Can be accessed at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1401374/f343.image.
Doyle, Maeve. "The Portrait Potential: Gender, Identity, and Devotion in Manuscript Owner Portraits, 1230-1320." Ph.D. dissertation, Bryn Mawr College, 2015.
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 (Flanders at the time)
Last quarter of the 13th century CE
book
Non-original Binding
Rebound with brown speckled calf skin in France, second half of the eighteenth century; gilt tooling on spine with inscription "PSAUME DE DAVID"; page edges regilt and leather tabs affixed late nineteenth or early twentieth century
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Created in northeastern France, last quarter of the thirteenth century, for use in the diocese of Metz; contents suggest original owner had Franciscan or Dominican affiliation
Early, subsequent owner also had Franciscan affiliation, indicated by additions made to calendar
"Deberud[?]t" inscribed in lower margins of fols. 68v and 69r by seventeenth-century hand, possible ownership inscription
Léon Gruel and Edmond Engelmann collection, Paris, late nineteenth or early twentieth century; their bookplate on front pastedown, inscribed "No. 134"
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel in 1903
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Northeast France (Flanders at the time)
Last quarter of the 13th century CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Created in northeastern France, last quarter of the thirteenth century, for use in the diocese of Metz; contents suggest original owner had Franciscan or Dominican affiliation
Early, subsequent owner also had Franciscan affiliation, indicated by additions made to calendar
"Deberud[?]t" inscribed in lower margins of fols. 68v and 69r by seventeenth-century hand, possible ownership inscription
Léon Gruel and Edmond Engelmann collection, Paris, late nineteenth or early twentieth century; their bookplate on front pastedown, inscribed "No. 134"
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel in 1903
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This Psalter, dating to the last quarter of the thirteenth century, was made in French Flanders for use in the diocese of Metz. Originally part of a Psalter-Hours, the two parts of the book were separated long ago and bound separately in the eighteenth century. The Hours half has recently been identified by François Avril as belonging to the Bibliothèque nationale de France, where it is n.a. Lat. 915. The Psalter component is heavily decorated, containing historiated initials as well as borders and line fillers full of hybrid creatures and grotesques.
Compressed textura, at times closer to quadrata or semi-quadrata; calendar and main text by two different hands
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbold, Rebekah
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
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. 772, cat. no. 97.
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, 1989; pp. 86-88, cat. no. 37.
Avril, Francois. "915 N.A.: Leroquais, Heures, II, 277-278." In Fichier bibliographique des manuscrits latins et grecs. Nal 770-1196. Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 2009; p. 343. Can be accessed at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1401374/f343.image.
Doyle, Maeve. "The Portrait Potential: Gender, Identity, and Devotion in Manuscript Owner Portraits, 1230-1320." Ph.D. dissertation, Bryn Mawr College, 2015.
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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