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.
Dating from ca. 1265-80, this manuscript includes twelve calendar illustrations, four extant full-page miniatures, and eight historiated initials. Originally composed of the Psalter and Office of the Dead (for Premonstratensian use), it was appended to at a later time to include Hours of the Virgin of an unidentified use but which is related to Thérouanne and Saint Omer. The illumination is a composite of Ghent, Hainaut, and Liège styles. There is a strong presence of heraldry throughout; armorial shields and arms, birth notices, and other family entries cited on back flyleaves connect this Psalter to the Crohin family of Hainaut. Two births are specifically mentioned: Antonet, daughter of Jun de Crohin and Marguerite de Leugney on October 25, 1577, and Jan de Crohin, brother of Antonet, born January 24, 1579.
All text written in slight variants of textura
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Wallace, Susan
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbold, Rebekah
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Schuele, Allyson
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
De Ricci, Seymour. 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. 98.
Miner, Dorothy. The History of Bookbinding, 525-1950 A.D. Exhibition Catalogue: Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1957; cat. no. 113, Pl. xxix.
Carlvant, Kerstin B. E. "Ghent: Blijlokemuseum 60-61." In Gent Duizend jaar kunst en cultuur. Organized by A. van den Kerhove. Exhibition Catalogue: Ghent, Blijlokemuseum. Ghent: Dienst voor Culturele Zaken-Stad Gent, 1975; p. 346, ref. under cat. no. 572.
Carlvant, Kerstin B. E. "Thirteenth-Century Illumination in Bruges and Ghent." Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, 1978; pp. 367-368, Table 5A and passim, fig. 9.
Oliver, Judith. Gothic Manuscript Illumination in the Diocese of Liege (c. 1250-c. 1330). Brepols: Peeters Publishing, 1988; p. 309.
Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 3, Belgium, 1250-1530. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1997; pp. 10-16, cat. no. 216.
Sandler, Lucy Freeman. "Psalter: In Latin, Metz." In The Splendor of the Word: Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts at the New York Public Library. Edited by Jonathan J. G. Alexander, James H. Marrow, and Lucy Freeman Sandler, 213-216. New York: New York Public Library, 2005; p. 216, ref. under cat. no. 43.
Christie's. Valuable Manuscripts and Printed Books, Sale 7399. King Street, London, 2007; ref. under lot 33 (Psalter with Calendar and Litany, in Latin, Illuminated Manuscript on Vellum).
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.
Hainaut (?)
Ca. 1265-1280 CE
book
Non-original Binding
Rebound in Belgium, late fifteenth or early sixteenth century; deep red velvet over leather-covered wood boards; piping composed of gilded silver, gold, and red silk thread lines edges of boards; red, white, and green silk endbands sewn to velvet cover; page edges gilded, gauffered with a diamond and rosette pattern; matching velvet straps with piping attached to inside of upper board and clasp to lower board; fasteners in gilded silver, with golden "P" for Peissant family against a ground of deep blue enamel; clasps likely nineteenth-century: close comparison exists on manuscript at Getty, also connected to Crohin family, which was bound in Belgium in the first half of the nineteenth century (see the Crohin-La Fontaine Hours, Getty Ms. 23)
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is French, Old (842-ca.1400).
Created ca. 1265-80, likely in the Hainaut region of Flanders
Crohin family of Hainut, owned possibly from fifteenth or sixteenth century, their armorial shields added twice on fol. 2v and in lower margins of fols. 12r, 108r, 159r, and 184r; birth and death notices for Crohin family members beginning in 1577, including those of brother and sister Jan and Antonet de Crohin, recorded on fols. 195v-197r; aunt listed, "Madamoyselle de Peissant," may represent branch of family from which "P" on clasps was derived
Léon Gruel and Edmond Engelmann, Paris, late nineteenth or early twentieth century; their bookplate inscribed "No. 467" on inside of upper board, and same number on matching dealer description
Henry Walters, Baltimore, by purchase from Gruel between 1895 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Hainaut (?)
Ca. 1265-1280 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is French, Old (842-ca.1400).
Created ca. 1265-80, likely in the Hainaut region of Flanders
Crohin family of Hainut, owned possibly from fifteenth or sixteenth century, their armorial shields added twice on fol. 2v and in lower margins of fols. 12r, 108r, 159r, and 184r; birth and death notices for Crohin family members beginning in 1577, including those of brother and sister Jan and Antonet de Crohin, recorded on fols. 195v-197r; aunt listed, "Madamoyselle de Peissant," may represent branch of family from which "P" on clasps was derived
Léon Gruel and Edmond Engelmann, Paris, late nineteenth or early twentieth century; their bookplate inscribed "No. 467" on inside of upper board, and same number on matching dealer description
Henry Walters, Baltimore, by purchase from Gruel between 1895 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Dating from ca. 1265-80, this manuscript includes twelve calendar illustrations, four extant full-page miniatures, and eight historiated initials. Originally composed of the Psalter and Office of the Dead (for Premonstratensian use), it was appended to at a later time to include Hours of the Virgin of an unidentified use but which is related to Thérouanne and Saint Omer. The illumination is a composite of Ghent, Hainaut, and Liège styles. There is a strong presence of heraldry throughout; armorial shields and arms, birth notices, and other family entries cited on back flyleaves connect this Psalter to the Crohin family of Hainaut. Two births are specifically mentioned: Antonet, daughter of Jun de Crohin and Marguerite de Leugney on October 25, 1577, and Jan de Crohin, brother of Antonet, born January 24, 1579.
All text written in slight variants of textura
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Wallace, Susan
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbold, Rebekah
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Schuele, Allyson
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
De Ricci, Seymour. 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. 98.
Miner, Dorothy. The History of Bookbinding, 525-1950 A.D. Exhibition Catalogue: Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1957; cat. no. 113, Pl. xxix.
Carlvant, Kerstin B. E. "Ghent: Blijlokemuseum 60-61." In Gent Duizend jaar kunst en cultuur. Organized by A. van den Kerhove. Exhibition Catalogue: Ghent, Blijlokemuseum. Ghent: Dienst voor Culturele Zaken-Stad Gent, 1975; p. 346, ref. under cat. no. 572.
Carlvant, Kerstin B. E. "Thirteenth-Century Illumination in Bruges and Ghent." Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, 1978; pp. 367-368, Table 5A and passim, fig. 9.
Oliver, Judith. Gothic Manuscript Illumination in the Diocese of Liege (c. 1250-c. 1330). Brepols: Peeters Publishing, 1988; p. 309.
Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 3, Belgium, 1250-1530. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1997; pp. 10-16, cat. no. 216.
Sandler, Lucy Freeman. "Psalter: In Latin, Metz." In The Splendor of the Word: Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts at the New York Public Library. Edited by Jonathan J. G. Alexander, James H. Marrow, and Lucy Freeman Sandler, 213-216. New York: New York Public Library, 2005; p. 216, ref. under cat. no. 43.
Christie's. Valuable Manuscripts and Printed Books, Sale 7399. King Street, London, 2007; ref. under lot 33 (Psalter with Calendar and Litany, in Latin, Illuminated Manuscript on Vellum).
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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