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 early copy of the Rule of the Knights Templar was created in the last quarter of the thirteenth century in the Arras-Douai region of French Flanders. Its original owner may have been a member of the Order of Dourges, and may have had a familial connection to "Gery dit de Bay," cited in a charter dated 1266 and inserted in the back of the manuscript. The addition of the charter, as well as later notations on the history of the manuscript and of the Templars themselves, make this a rich document.
Nineteenth-century hand
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: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
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, n. 502; 845
Dailliez, Laurent. Les Templiers et les Règles de l'Ordre du Temple (Paris, 1972).
Dailliez, Laurent. "Le plus ancien texte de la Règle du Temple. Le Manuscrit 131 de la Bibliothèque de Bruges," Handelingen van het Genootschap voor Geschiedenis. Societe d'Emulation te Brugge 3-4 (1974): 175-200. W.132 is not included in this study, but it is textually related to the works discussed.
Judith Oliver. "The Rule of the Templars and a Courtly Ballade." Scriptorium 35, no. 2 (1981): 303-306; pp. 303-306.
Randall, Lilian M.C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery: France, 875-1420. Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, 1989, pp. 83-86, cat. no. 36
Cerrini, Simonetta. "La tradition manuscrite de la regle du Temple: Études pour une nouvelle édition des versions latine et française." In Autour de la premiere croisade: Actes du Colloque de la Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East (Clermont-Ferrand, 22-25 juin 1995). Edited by Michel Balard, 203-219. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 1996; 215.
Kirstein, Klaus-Peter. Die lateinischen Patriarchen von Jerusalem: von der Eroberung der Heiligen Stadt durch die Kreuzfahrer 1099 bis zum Ende der Kreuzfahrerstaaten 1291. Berlin: Duncker and Humblot, 2002; p. 226.
Complément Bibliographique 2007 to the Dictionnaire Étymologique de l'Ancien Français. Edited by Frankwalt Möhren. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2007; p. 570.
Vogel, Christian. Das Recht der Templer: Ausgewählte Aspekte des Templerrechts unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Statutenhandschriften aus Paris, Rom, Baltimore und Barcelona. Münster: LIT Verlag, 2007; pp. 74, 82, 375.
Riley-Smith, Jonathan. "An Ignored Meeting of a Templar Chapter-General." In Profesör Doktor Işın Demirkent anısına. Edited by Işın Demirkent; Abdülkerim Özaydın, et al. İstanbul : Dünya yayıncılık, 2008; p. 390.
Riley-Smith, Jonathan. "The Templars and Their Legislation." In Law as Profession and Practice in Medieval Europe: Essays in Honor of James A. Brundage. Edited by Kenneth Pennington and Melodie Harris Eichbauer, 359-370. Surrey: Ashgate, 2011; p. 364.
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), probably Arras-Douai region
Last quarter of the 13th century CE
book
Non-original Binding
Rebound in France, early nineteenth century; brown morocco with gold tooled designs around edges of covers, spine, and on turn-ins; edges of pages gilded; gilt inscription on spine reads: "REGLE DOU TEMPLE 1128"
The primary language in this manuscript is French, Old (842-ca.1400).
Created in the Arras-Douai region of French Flanders in the last quarter of the thirteenth century: references within the manuscript help date it, such as a mention of the Tartar invasion on fol. 84r which provides a terminus post quem of 1257, and a reference to the Commander as being the head of the organization in France alone, as opposed to France and England together, suggests it must have been made before 1290; original owner may have been a member of the Order of Dourges, a region referred to in the charter, and may have had a familial connection to "Gery dit de Bay," cited in the charter as a donor of lands in the Arras region, and whose family surname is also written on the back of the charter; Randall suggests
Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Barrois of Lille, indicated as owner on inserted note about contents of manuscript before first folio, dated June 6, 1831, and initialed "GH"; small paper note attached to front pastedown, which refers to the authorship of the "Rule" and to a book about French literature, may be by the hand of Barrois himself; Barrois number given on spine and on front pastedown as "234"
Earl of Ashburnham, England, purchased from Barrois sale, 1849
Julius D. Ichenhauser, New York, purchased for £23.10 from Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's, London, June 10, 1901, lot 56
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from bookseller Ichenhauser between 1901 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Northeast France (Flanders at the time), probably Arras-Douai region
Last quarter of the 13th century CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is French, Old (842-ca.1400).
Created in the Arras-Douai region of French Flanders in the last quarter of the thirteenth century: references within the manuscript help date it, such as a mention of the Tartar invasion on fol. 84r which provides a terminus post quem of 1257, and a reference to the Commander as being the head of the organization in France alone, as opposed to France and England together, suggests it must have been made before 1290; original owner may have been a member of the Order of Dourges, a region referred to in the charter, and may have had a familial connection to "Gery dit de Bay," cited in the charter as a donor of lands in the Arras region, and whose family surname is also written on the back of the charter; Randall suggests
Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Barrois of Lille, indicated as owner on inserted note about contents of manuscript before first folio, dated June 6, 1831, and initialed "GH"; small paper note attached to front pastedown, which refers to the authorship of the "Rule" and to a book about French literature, may be by the hand of Barrois himself; Barrois number given on spine and on front pastedown as "234"
Earl of Ashburnham, England, purchased from Barrois sale, 1849
Julius D. Ichenhauser, New York, purchased for £23.10 from Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's, London, June 10, 1901, lot 56
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from bookseller Ichenhauser between 1901 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This early copy of the Rule of the Knights Templar was created in the last quarter of the thirteenth century in the Arras-Douai region of French Flanders. Its original owner may have been a member of the Order of Dourges, and may have had a familial connection to "Gery dit de Bay," cited in a charter dated 1266 and inserted in the back of the manuscript. The addition of the charter, as well as later notations on the history of the manuscript and of the Templars themselves, make this a rich document.
Nineteenth-century hand
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: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
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, n. 502; 845
Dailliez, Laurent. Les Templiers et les Règles de l'Ordre du Temple (Paris, 1972).
Dailliez, Laurent. "Le plus ancien texte de la Règle du Temple. Le Manuscrit 131 de la Bibliothèque de Bruges," Handelingen van het Genootschap voor Geschiedenis. Societe d'Emulation te Brugge 3-4 (1974): 175-200. W.132 is not included in this study, but it is textually related to the works discussed.
Judith Oliver. "The Rule of the Templars and a Courtly Ballade." Scriptorium 35, no. 2 (1981): 303-306; pp. 303-306.
Randall, Lilian M.C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery: France, 875-1420. Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, 1989, pp. 83-86, cat. no. 36
Cerrini, Simonetta. "La tradition manuscrite de la regle du Temple: Études pour une nouvelle édition des versions latine et française." In Autour de la premiere croisade: Actes du Colloque de la Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East (Clermont-Ferrand, 22-25 juin 1995). Edited by Michel Balard, 203-219. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 1996; 215.
Kirstein, Klaus-Peter. Die lateinischen Patriarchen von Jerusalem: von der Eroberung der Heiligen Stadt durch die Kreuzfahrer 1099 bis zum Ende der Kreuzfahrerstaaten 1291. Berlin: Duncker and Humblot, 2002; p. 226.
Complément Bibliographique 2007 to the Dictionnaire Étymologique de l'Ancien Français. Edited by Frankwalt Möhren. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2007; p. 570.
Vogel, Christian. Das Recht der Templer: Ausgewählte Aspekte des Templerrechts unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Statutenhandschriften aus Paris, Rom, Baltimore und Barcelona. Münster: LIT Verlag, 2007; pp. 74, 82, 375.
Riley-Smith, Jonathan. "An Ignored Meeting of a Templar Chapter-General." In Profesör Doktor Işın Demirkent anısına. Edited by Işın Demirkent; Abdülkerim Özaydın, et al. İstanbul : Dünya yayıncılık, 2008; p. 390.
Riley-Smith, Jonathan. "The Templars and Their Legislation." In Law as Profession and Practice in Medieval Europe: Essays in Honor of James A. Brundage. Edited by Kenneth Pennington and Melodie Harris Eichbauer, 359-370. Surrey: Ashgate, 2011; p. 364.
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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