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.
William II, Archbishop of Tyre (ca. 1130-1190) began this monumental historical account of the First Crusade and its subsequent Western rulers ca. 1167. Titled "History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea," this chronicle was continued by the author until his death ca. 1190. Shortly thereafter, the manuscript was translated from the original Latin into French. The French edition, Estoire d'Eracles, was completed in two stages, ca. 1300-40, not only preserving the history of the Crusades as recorded until 1190 by William of Tyre (fols. 1-236), but also including two continuations that were added to the volume ca. 1340, some forty years later than the original portion of the text. Featuring twenty-seven panel miniatures and twenty-two historiated initials, this stunning chronicle is one of few that survives to this day.
Written by different hand some forty years later
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbold, Rebekah
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbold, Rebekah
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Paris, P. Guillaume de Tyr et ses continuators. 2. Histoire generale des croisades par les auteurs contemporains. 1880: 469.
Riant, P. "Inventaire sommaire des manuscrits de l'Eracles". I. Archives de l'Orient Latin. 1881: 251, no. 55.
Riant, P. "Inventaire sommaire des manuscrits relatifs a l'histoire et la geographie de l'Orient Latin". 2. Archives de l'Orient Latin. 1884: 201, no. 63.
James, M.R. and Cockerell, S.C. et. al. A Descriptive Catalogue of Fifty Manuscripts in the Collection of Henry Yates Thompson. 1898. cat. no. 43.
James, M.R. and Cockerell, S.C. et. al. A Descriptive Catalogue of Twenty Illuminated Manuscripts Nos. LXXV to XCIV. (Replacing Twenty Discarded from the Original Hundred) in the Collection of Henry Yates Thomspon. 1907. citation in forward by H.Y. Thompson.; v
Cockerell, S.C. and H.Y. Thompson, et. al. A Descriptive Catalogue of Fourteen Illustrated Manuscripts Nos. XCV to CVII and 79A Completing the Hundred in the Library of Henry Yates Thompson. 1912. citation in forward by H.Y. Thompson.; x
Foulet, A.L. Jean Sarrasin. Lettre a Nicholas Arrode (1249). 43. Les Classiques Francais du Moyen Age. 1924: ix.
De Ricci, S. "Les manuscripts de la collection de Henry Yates Thompson". 10. Societe Francaise de Reproductions de Manuscrits a Peintures. 1926: 55.
De Ricci, Seymour. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935. cat. no. 528; 850.
Woledge, B. and Clive, H.P. Repertoire des plus anciens textes en prose francaise depuis 842 jusqu'aux premiers annees du XIIIe siecle. 79. Societe de Publications Romanes et Francaises. 1964: 61.
Folda, J. "Manuscripts of the 'History of Outremer' by William of Tyre: A Handlist". 27/1. Scriptorium. 1973: 94.
Morgan, M.R. The Chronicle of Ernoul and the Continuations of William of Tyre. 1973: 38.
Folda, J. Crusader Manuscript Illumination at Saint-Jean d'Acre, 1275-1291. 1976: 32, 135, 155-158, 212-213.
Cockshaw, P. Review of Folda. Crusader Manuscript Illumination at Saint-Jean d'Acre, 1275-1291. 33/2. Scriptorium. 1979: 336.
Morgan, M.R. "The Rothelin Continuation of William of Tyre". Outremer: Studies in the History of the Crusading Kingdom Presented to Joshua Prawer edited by B.Z. Kedar, H.E. Mayer, and R.C. Smail. 1982:245-246.
Miquel, A. ed. Usama Ibn Munquidh. Des ensegnements de la vie Kitab al-l'tibar. Souvenirs. d'un gentilhomme syrien du temps des Croisades. 1983: 241, 313.
Noel, William and Daniel Weiss. The Book of Kings: Art, War, and the Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible. London: Third Millennium Publishing; Baltimore: Walters Art Museum. 2002. p. 180, cat. no. 26
Tyerman, Christopher, ed. The First Crusade 1096-1099. London: The Folio Society. 2004. fol. 21; before p. 111
Tyerman, Christopher, ed. The Second Crusade and the Rise and Fall of Frankish Syria, 1099-1187. London: The Folio Society. 2004. fol. 112; before p. 83
Eddé, Anne-Marie. Saladin. Paris: Flammarion, 2008.fol 233v (p. 3 (top) between pp. 384-85).
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.
Paris
Ca. 1275-1325 CE
book
Non-original Binding
France, fifteenth century; reddish-brown calf over wooden boards; head and tail of spine repaired in the nineteenth century; twentieth-century additions include stout modern leather straps, attached at fore-edge of upper cover and leather fore-edge tabs
The primary language in this manuscript is French, Old (842-ca.1400). The secondary language of this manuscript is French.
Completed in Paris, in two stages; ca. 1300 and ca. 1340
"Monsieur du Vassy
Count of Clermont-Gallerande family, seventeenth or eighteenth century; armorial shield pasted on top of deed
Ambriose Firmin-Didot, Paris bookseller, ca. 1870-80; written description of manuscript on slip pasted onto back pastedown possibly from this period
Made available to Gaston Paris for printed edition ca. 1879-80
Firmin-Didot sale, Paris, June 9-15, 1881, no.63; sold to member of Didot family for 3200 francs
Henry Yates Thompson, June 1896, Ms. 43; sold by him before 1907
Léon Gruel, Paris, acquired from Yates Thompson by 1907
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Paris
Ca. 1275-1325 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is French, Old (842-ca.1400). The secondary language of this manuscript is French.
Completed in Paris, in two stages; ca. 1300 and ca. 1340
"Monsieur du Vassy
Count of Clermont-Gallerande family, seventeenth or eighteenth century; armorial shield pasted on top of deed
Ambriose Firmin-Didot, Paris bookseller, ca. 1870-80; written description of manuscript on slip pasted onto back pastedown possibly from this period
Made available to Gaston Paris for printed edition ca. 1879-80
Firmin-Didot sale, Paris, June 9-15, 1881, no.63; sold to member of Didot family for 3200 francs
Henry Yates Thompson, June 1896, Ms. 43; sold by him before 1907
Léon Gruel, Paris, acquired from Yates Thompson by 1907
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
William II, Archbishop of Tyre (ca. 1130-1190) began this monumental historical account of the First Crusade and its subsequent Western rulers ca. 1167. Titled "History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea," this chronicle was continued by the author until his death ca. 1190. Shortly thereafter, the manuscript was translated from the original Latin into French. The French edition, Estoire d'Eracles, was completed in two stages, ca. 1300-40, not only preserving the history of the Crusades as recorded until 1190 by William of Tyre (fols. 1-236), but also including two continuations that were added to the volume ca. 1340, some forty years later than the original portion of the text. Featuring twenty-seven panel miniatures and twenty-two historiated initials, this stunning chronicle is one of few that survives to this day.
Written by different hand some forty years later
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbold, Rebekah
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbold, Rebekah
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Paris, P. Guillaume de Tyr et ses continuators. 2. Histoire generale des croisades par les auteurs contemporains. 1880: 469.
Riant, P. "Inventaire sommaire des manuscrits de l'Eracles". I. Archives de l'Orient Latin. 1881: 251, no. 55.
Riant, P. "Inventaire sommaire des manuscrits relatifs a l'histoire et la geographie de l'Orient Latin". 2. Archives de l'Orient Latin. 1884: 201, no. 63.
James, M.R. and Cockerell, S.C. et. al. A Descriptive Catalogue of Fifty Manuscripts in the Collection of Henry Yates Thompson. 1898. cat. no. 43.
James, M.R. and Cockerell, S.C. et. al. A Descriptive Catalogue of Twenty Illuminated Manuscripts Nos. LXXV to XCIV. (Replacing Twenty Discarded from the Original Hundred) in the Collection of Henry Yates Thomspon. 1907. citation in forward by H.Y. Thompson.; v
Cockerell, S.C. and H.Y. Thompson, et. al. A Descriptive Catalogue of Fourteen Illustrated Manuscripts Nos. XCV to CVII and 79A Completing the Hundred in the Library of Henry Yates Thompson. 1912. citation in forward by H.Y. Thompson.; x
Foulet, A.L. Jean Sarrasin. Lettre a Nicholas Arrode (1249). 43. Les Classiques Francais du Moyen Age. 1924: ix.
De Ricci, S. "Les manuscripts de la collection de Henry Yates Thompson". 10. Societe Francaise de Reproductions de Manuscrits a Peintures. 1926: 55.
De Ricci, Seymour. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935. cat. no. 528; 850.
Woledge, B. and Clive, H.P. Repertoire des plus anciens textes en prose francaise depuis 842 jusqu'aux premiers annees du XIIIe siecle. 79. Societe de Publications Romanes et Francaises. 1964: 61.
Folda, J. "Manuscripts of the 'History of Outremer' by William of Tyre: A Handlist". 27/1. Scriptorium. 1973: 94.
Morgan, M.R. The Chronicle of Ernoul and the Continuations of William of Tyre. 1973: 38.
Folda, J. Crusader Manuscript Illumination at Saint-Jean d'Acre, 1275-1291. 1976: 32, 135, 155-158, 212-213.
Cockshaw, P. Review of Folda. Crusader Manuscript Illumination at Saint-Jean d'Acre, 1275-1291. 33/2. Scriptorium. 1979: 336.
Morgan, M.R. "The Rothelin Continuation of William of Tyre". Outremer: Studies in the History of the Crusading Kingdom Presented to Joshua Prawer edited by B.Z. Kedar, H.E. Mayer, and R.C. Smail. 1982:245-246.
Miquel, A. ed. Usama Ibn Munquidh. Des ensegnements de la vie Kitab al-l'tibar. Souvenirs. d'un gentilhomme syrien du temps des Croisades. 1983: 241, 313.
Noel, William and Daniel Weiss. The Book of Kings: Art, War, and the Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible. London: Third Millennium Publishing; Baltimore: Walters Art Museum. 2002. p. 180, cat. no. 26
Tyerman, Christopher, ed. The First Crusade 1096-1099. London: The Folio Society. 2004. fol. 21; before p. 111
Tyerman, Christopher, ed. The Second Crusade and the Rise and Fall of Frankish Syria, 1099-1187. London: The Folio Society. 2004. fol. 112; before p. 83
Eddé, Anne-Marie. Saladin. Paris: Flammarion, 2008.fol 233v (p. 3 (top) between pp. 384-85).
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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