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 fragmentary psalter was made in the thirteenth century in southern Germany. Several quires are missing from the beginning and end of the book, resulting in the loss of a large portion of the psalms, as well as most of the Office of the Dead. The manuscript itself has no decoration outside of slightly enlarged red initials. However, an ornate gilded and jewel-encrusted cover was added to the original wood boards in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century, and it is a product of that era. The only original medieval elements within this pastiche are the thirteenth-century enamels, which are of Cologne origin.
Formal Gothic bookhand; two sizes used according to liturgical function; two scribes evident; mainly second scribe who varies size of script (e.g. fols. 60r-61v: Office of the Dead)
Cataloger: Dutschke, Consuelo
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Noel, William
Cataloger: Sciacca, Christine
Cataloger: Valle, Chiara
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Joyal, Stephanie
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Davis, Lisa Fagin
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Klemm, Elizabeth
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. 771, cat. no. 89.
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.
Wurzburg (?), southern Germany
13th century CE
book
Non-original Binding
Wood boards are original; ornate gilded metal cover is a nineteenth- or early twentieth-century pastiche, with Christ enthroned surrounded by Evangelists in medallions; a letter from Léon Gruel in states that he thought it was authentic; ca. 1200 German champlevé enamel panels embedded in cover are authentic (one was removed due to condition in 1955); nineteenth-century red velvet on lower board
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Created in southern Germany, possibly Wurzburg, in the thirteenth century
Léon Gruel, Paris, late nineteenth or early twentieth century
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Léon Gruel before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Wurzburg (?), southern Germany
13th century CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Created in southern Germany, possibly Wurzburg, in the thirteenth century
Léon Gruel, Paris, late nineteenth or early twentieth century
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Léon Gruel before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This fragmentary psalter was made in the thirteenth century in southern Germany. Several quires are missing from the beginning and end of the book, resulting in the loss of a large portion of the psalms, as well as most of the Office of the Dead. The manuscript itself has no decoration outside of slightly enlarged red initials. However, an ornate gilded and jewel-encrusted cover was added to the original wood boards in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century, and it is a product of that era. The only original medieval elements within this pastiche are the thirteenth-century enamels, which are of Cologne origin.
Formal Gothic bookhand; two sizes used according to liturgical function; two scribes evident; mainly second scribe who varies size of script (e.g. fols. 60r-61v: Office of the Dead)
Cataloger: Dutschke, Consuelo
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Noel, William
Cataloger: Sciacca, Christine
Cataloger: Valle, Chiara
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Joyal, Stephanie
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Davis, Lisa Fagin
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Klemm, Elizabeth
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. 771, cat. no. 89.
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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