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 a fragment of a manuscript that was made in Germany in the late fourteenth century. It was part of a brightly illuminated copy of a popular anonymous treatise called the Speculum humanae salvationis, or Mirror of human salvation, in which events of the Old Testament were compared to those of the New. In this example, as was often the case, each column is headed by a miniature. These pages were reused as a wrapper for a book at some later time. The ghosting of the book it adorned can still be seen in the dark, abraded portion that spans the two pages. By the nineteenth century, the value of the pages was recognized, and they were restored to their state as a bifolium.
Semi-formal cursive hybrid bookhand
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Mednyanszky, Orsolya
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Joyal, Stephanie
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Dutschke, Consuelo
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Hamburger, Jeffrey
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Schwarz, Franz Joseph. Archive fuer christliche Kunst. Stuttgart: Kommissionsverlag "Deutsches volksblatt," 1884, pp. 87-88.
Katalog der Bücher-Sammlung Franz Trau: Versteigerung Freitag, den 27. und Samstag, den 28. Oktober 1905. Vienna: Gilhofer and Ranschburg, 1905, pp. 28-29, no. 82, Plate IX
De Ricci, Seymour. "Errata and Addenda." In Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 2. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1937, p. 2292 (ref. to p. 821, cat. no. 390).
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.
Germany
Late 14th century CE
leaves
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Originally part of a manuscript created in Germany, late fourteenth century
Bifolium reused as wrapper for later book at an unknown place and time
Franz Trau collection, Vienna, Austria, until 1905
Ludwig Rosenthal, purchased from Franz Trau, Munich, October 27-28, 1905, no. 82 for 920 kronens
Leonardo Olschki, Italy, purchased from Ludwig Rosenthal, November 22, 1905 for 862.55 marks
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Olschki, no. 29361, for 1185 lire
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Germany
Late 14th century CE
leaves
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Originally part of a manuscript created in Germany, late fourteenth century
Bifolium reused as wrapper for later book at an unknown place and time
Franz Trau collection, Vienna, Austria, until 1905
Ludwig Rosenthal, purchased from Franz Trau, Munich, October 27-28, 1905, no. 82 for 920 kronens
Leonardo Olschki, Italy, purchased from Ludwig Rosenthal, November 22, 1905 for 862.55 marks
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Olschki, no. 29361, for 1185 lire
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This a fragment of a manuscript that was made in Germany in the late fourteenth century. It was part of a brightly illuminated copy of a popular anonymous treatise called the Speculum humanae salvationis, or Mirror of human salvation, in which events of the Old Testament were compared to those of the New. In this example, as was often the case, each column is headed by a miniature. These pages were reused as a wrapper for a book at some later time. The ghosting of the book it adorned can still be seen in the dark, abraded portion that spans the two pages. By the nineteenth century, the value of the pages was recognized, and they were restored to their state as a bifolium.
Semi-formal cursive hybrid bookhand
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Mednyanszky, Orsolya
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Joyal, Stephanie
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Dutschke, Consuelo
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Hamburger, Jeffrey
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Schwarz, Franz Joseph. Archive fuer christliche Kunst. Stuttgart: Kommissionsverlag "Deutsches volksblatt," 1884, pp. 87-88.
Katalog der Bücher-Sammlung Franz Trau: Versteigerung Freitag, den 27. und Samstag, den 28. Oktober 1905. Vienna: Gilhofer and Ranschburg, 1905, pp. 28-29, no. 82, Plate IX
De Ricci, Seymour. "Errata and Addenda." In Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 2. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1937, p. 2292 (ref. to p. 821, cat. no. 390).
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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