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 produced ca. 1250-75 in a region of northeastern France that was at the time considered Flanders. The manuscript seems to have been transported to Italy, on the evidence of textual additions associated with the Italian Cistercians, ownership by a person affiliated with the Italian Cistercian foundation, and ownership by Bartolomeus dala Vale. The manuscript is incomplete as well as misbound, containing Psalms, canticles, and the Cistercian Ordinary for ferial Office. There are seven extant historiated initials and occasional penwork creatures.
Fourteenth/fifteenth-century Italian hand
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Bucca, Lauren
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bucca, Lauren
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Schuele, Allyson
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. 96.
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. 81-82, cat. no. 35.
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 (French Flanders)
Ca. 1250-1275 CE
book
Non-original Binding
Rebound in the nineteenth century, dark olive green velvet binding; modern cast metal ring at the middle fore-edge of the upper cover; cast fastening-plate centered at the fore-edge of the lower cover
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is Italian.
Created in northeastern France
Owner associated with the Italian Cistercian foundation, ca. fourteenth or fifteenth century; Italian hand added lines on fols. 197r-212v in the fifteenth century as part of the Cistercian Ordinary for ferial Office
Bartholomeus dala Vale, seventeenth-century; inscription on flyleaf i, r: "D BARTOLOMEUS DALA VALE HUNC/ POSSEDET LIB/ RUM/ IO. BAPT. STR:"; name copied in capitals on tail-edge of manuscript
Alphonse Labitte, Paris, nineteenth century; armorial bookplate containing motto "EXCELSIOR" on front pastedown
Bernard Quaritch, London, cat. 269
Leo S. Olschki, Florence, early twentieth century; Olschki's number, invoice number "33573" on front pastedown
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Olschki between 1910 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Northeast France (French Flanders)
Ca. 1250-1275 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is Italian.
Created in northeastern France
Owner associated with the Italian Cistercian foundation, ca. fourteenth or fifteenth century; Italian hand added lines on fols. 197r-212v in the fifteenth century as part of the Cistercian Ordinary for ferial Office
Bartholomeus dala Vale, seventeenth-century; inscription on flyleaf i, r: "D BARTOLOMEUS DALA VALE HUNC/ POSSEDET LIB/ RUM/ IO. BAPT. STR:"; name copied in capitals on tail-edge of manuscript
Alphonse Labitte, Paris, nineteenth century; armorial bookplate containing motto "EXCELSIOR" on front pastedown
Bernard Quaritch, London, cat. 269
Leo S. Olschki, Florence, early twentieth century; Olschki's number, invoice number "33573" on front pastedown
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Olschki between 1910 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This psalter was produced ca. 1250-75 in a region of northeastern France that was at the time considered Flanders. The manuscript seems to have been transported to Italy, on the evidence of textual additions associated with the Italian Cistercians, ownership by a person affiliated with the Italian Cistercian foundation, and ownership by Bartolomeus dala Vale. The manuscript is incomplete as well as misbound, containing Psalms, canticles, and the Cistercian Ordinary for ferial Office. There are seven extant historiated initials and occasional penwork creatures.
Fourteenth/fifteenth-century Italian hand
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Bucca, Lauren
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bucca, Lauren
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Schuele, Allyson
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. 96.
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. 81-82, cat. no. 35.
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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