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 manuscript is a glossed Gospel Book made in England in the late twelfth or early thirteenth century. The glosses contain commentaries on the Gospels written by several medieval theologians: Hrabanus Maurus and John Chrysostom on Matthew, Jerome and Bede on Mark, Ambrose and Bede on Luke, and Augustine on John. Written in Gothic script, the Gospels text is enlarged with smaller script employed for the glosses. The manuscript is decorated with simple illumination, consisting only of two large initials, and numerous smaller ones marking major divisions in the text. This Gospel Book is exceptional because it contains legal formularies of Oxford origin, written on five folios. The formulary mentions the kings Richard and John, and there are also references to the churches in Oxford and Northampton. The dates within the formulary are pieces of evidence that help date the manuscript. The binding in white deer skin over oak boards is original, and the remains of the original over cover are still preserved at the fore-edge of the lower board as well.
Handwriting contemporary or sightly later than the glosses
Principal cataloger: Noel, William
Principal cataloger: Smith, Kathryn
Cataloger: Dutschke, Consuelo
Cataloger: Valle, Chiara
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
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. 768, no. 68.
De Hamel, Christopher. A History of Illuminated Manuscripts. Oxford: Phaidon, 1986, pp. 78, 111, 113 (for other examples of glossed Gospels)
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.
Oxford, England
Late 12th century-early 13th century CE
book
Original Binding
White deer skin over oak boards; strap anchorage channels on upper boards; remains of original over cover at fore-edge of lower board, alum-tawed leather
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Made in Oxford in the thirteenth century; fols. 79v-81v contain legal formularies for the use of Oxford
J. Reynoldes, England , seventeenth century; his ownership inscription on front pastedown, and also fol. 3r; additional name partially legible on fol. 3r reads "Thomas [?]" (provenance)
Rowland Clegg-Hill, Third Viscount of Hawkstone Park, Shropshire
Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Oxford, England
Late 12th century-early 13th century CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Made in Oxford in the thirteenth century; fols. 79v-81v contain legal formularies for the use of Oxford
J. Reynoldes, England , seventeenth century; his ownership inscription on front pastedown, and also fol. 3r; additional name partially legible on fol. 3r reads "Thomas [?]" (provenance)
Rowland Clegg-Hill, Third Viscount of Hawkstone Park, Shropshire
Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This manuscript is a glossed Gospel Book made in England in the late twelfth or early thirteenth century. The glosses contain commentaries on the Gospels written by several medieval theologians: Hrabanus Maurus and John Chrysostom on Matthew, Jerome and Bede on Mark, Ambrose and Bede on Luke, and Augustine on John. Written in Gothic script, the Gospels text is enlarged with smaller script employed for the glosses. The manuscript is decorated with simple illumination, consisting only of two large initials, and numerous smaller ones marking major divisions in the text. This Gospel Book is exceptional because it contains legal formularies of Oxford origin, written on five folios. The formulary mentions the kings Richard and John, and there are also references to the churches in Oxford and Northampton. The dates within the formulary are pieces of evidence that help date the manuscript. The binding in white deer skin over oak boards is original, and the remains of the original over cover are still preserved at the fore-edge of the lower board as well.
Handwriting contemporary or sightly later than the glosses
Principal cataloger: Noel, William
Principal cataloger: Smith, Kathryn
Cataloger: Dutschke, Consuelo
Cataloger: Valle, Chiara
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
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. 768, no. 68.
De Hamel, Christopher. A History of Illuminated Manuscripts. Oxford: Phaidon, 1986, pp. 78, 111, 113 (for other examples of glossed Gospels)
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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