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 prayer book was produced ca. 1430-40, likely in Brabant, but the contents of the calendar point to Tournai and Cambrai, and the Office of the Dead is for the use of Liège. North Netherlandish influence, possibly connected with works by the Masters of the Gold Scrolls, is suggested by the style and iconography of its images. The manuscript is notable for its large number of miniatures--forty-eight in total--as well as the sense of narrative within them, and the diversity of the suffrages they illustrate is striking. That the original owner had a strong interest in the Passion is evident in both the choice of texts and the images. The manuscript was well used, and accrued not only additional prayers and suffrages, but devotional objects as well: a pilgrim's badge was once attached to the corner of the image for the suffrage to relics on fol. 160r.
Written in littera batarda by slightly later hand
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Schuele, Allyson
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
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. 788, cat. no. 196.
Wieck, Roger Seymour. Time Sanctified: The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life. Exhibition Catalogue. Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery. NY: George Braiziller, 1988; pp. 115, 209, cat. no. 82, fig. 94.
Rogers, N.J. "The Miniature of St. John the Baptist in Gonville and Caius MS 241/127 and Its Context." In Fifteenth-Century Flemish Manuscripts in Cambridge Collections. Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, Volume X. Cambridge: Cambridge University Library, 1992; p. 228.
Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 3, Belgium, 1250-1530. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1997; pp. 132-139, cat. no. 232.
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.
Brabant (?)
Ca. 1430-1440 CE
book
Non-original Binding
Rebound second half of nineteenth century by Chambolle-Duru, Paris; mustard-colored leather; sewn on five cords, silk endbands in red, yellow, and green, with matching ribbon marker; spine inscribed "LIVRE D'HEURES" and at bottom "MANUSCRIT"; binder's name in gold on bottom turn-in, inside upper board; edges of pages regilt
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is French, Middle (ca.1400-1600).
Created ca. 1430-40, possibly in Brabant, with feasts of Tournai and Cambrai in calendar, and Office of the Dead is Use of Liège; original owner possibly had Franciscan and Francophile sympathies given texts in suffrages
Damascène Morgand
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased between 1895 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Brabant (?)
Ca. 1430-1440 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is French, Middle (ca.1400-1600).
Created ca. 1430-40, possibly in Brabant, with feasts of Tournai and Cambrai in calendar, and Office of the Dead is Use of Liège; original owner possibly had Franciscan and Francophile sympathies given texts in suffrages
Damascène Morgand
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased between 1895 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This prayer book was produced ca. 1430-40, likely in Brabant, but the contents of the calendar point to Tournai and Cambrai, and the Office of the Dead is for the use of Liège. North Netherlandish influence, possibly connected with works by the Masters of the Gold Scrolls, is suggested by the style and iconography of its images. The manuscript is notable for its large number of miniatures--forty-eight in total--as well as the sense of narrative within them, and the diversity of the suffrages they illustrate is striking. That the original owner had a strong interest in the Passion is evident in both the choice of texts and the images. The manuscript was well used, and accrued not only additional prayers and suffrages, but devotional objects as well: a pilgrim's badge was once attached to the corner of the image for the suffrage to relics on fol. 160r.
Written in littera batarda by slightly later hand
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Schuele, Allyson
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
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. 788, cat. no. 196.
Wieck, Roger Seymour. Time Sanctified: The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life. Exhibition Catalogue. Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery. NY: George Braiziller, 1988; pp. 115, 209, cat. no. 82, fig. 94.
Rogers, N.J. "The Miniature of St. John the Baptist in Gonville and Caius MS 241/127 and Its Context." In Fifteenth-Century Flemish Manuscripts in Cambridge Collections. Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, Volume X. Cambridge: Cambridge University Library, 1992; p. 228.
Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 3, Belgium, 1250-1530. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1997; pp. 132-139, cat. no. 232.
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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