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 late medieval German prayer book is an example of a highly personal devotional item. It was originally made ca. 1440 for Leonhard von Laymingen, bishop of Passau (fl. 1423-1451). The text primarily features a series of prayers to various saints as well as prayers for travelings. Many illuminations and some text pages have been excised, but the book is nonetheless extensively decorated. The prayer book's illuminations consist of thirty miniatures and four historiated initials that complement the text, usually with illustrations of saints. Bishop von Laymingen appears in his prayer book several times kneeling before the saint to which that particular prayer is dedicated. Additionally, the Laymingen coat of arms appears twenty times throughout the book.
One full-page miniature (fol. 98r)
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Joyal, Stephanie
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Hamburger, Jeffrey
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. 2 vols. New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1935. p. 815, cat. no. 359.
Diringer, David. The Illuminated Book: Its History and Production. London: Faber & Faber, 1958, p. 194, pl. III-33 (fol. 1v).
Howard, Donald R. Writers and Pilgrims: Medieval Pilgrimage Narratives and their Posterity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.
Burin, Elizabeth. "Travel in Medieval Manuscripts." Journal of The Walters Art Gallery 51 (1993): cover, pp. 2-3.
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.
Passau, Germany
Mid 15th century CE
book
Non-original Binding
Austrian binding ca. 1600, brown leather over beech boards; blind-stamped and tooled Crucifixion scene, floral and fleur-de-lys decoration; impressions and brass rivets of former clasps remain
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Made for Leonhard von Laymingen, bishop of Passau
Don Marcello Massarenti
Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, purchased from Massarenti collection
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Passau, Germany
Mid 15th century CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Made for Leonhard von Laymingen, bishop of Passau
Don Marcello Massarenti
Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, purchased from Massarenti collection
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This late medieval German prayer book is an example of a highly personal devotional item. It was originally made ca. 1440 for Leonhard von Laymingen, bishop of Passau (fl. 1423-1451). The text primarily features a series of prayers to various saints as well as prayers for travelings. Many illuminations and some text pages have been excised, but the book is nonetheless extensively decorated. The prayer book's illuminations consist of thirty miniatures and four historiated initials that complement the text, usually with illustrations of saints. Bishop von Laymingen appears in his prayer book several times kneeling before the saint to which that particular prayer is dedicated. Additionally, the Laymingen coat of arms appears twenty times throughout the book.
One full-page miniature (fol. 98r)
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Joyal, Stephanie
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Hamburger, Jeffrey
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. 2 vols. New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1935. p. 815, cat. no. 359.
Diringer, David. The Illuminated Book: Its History and Production. London: Faber & Faber, 1958, p. 194, pl. III-33 (fol. 1v).
Howard, Donald R. Writers and Pilgrims: Medieval Pilgrimage Narratives and their Posterity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.
Burin, Elizabeth. "Travel in Medieval Manuscripts." Journal of The Walters Art Gallery 51 (1993): cover, pp. 2-3.
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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