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 book of hours was written in Dutch in the fifteenth century for the use of Utrecht. The Hours of the Virgin and of the Cross are accompanied here by the Dutch translation of Henry Suso's "Cursus aeternae sapientiae," a text that was particularly popular for private devotion in the Netherlands. Once owned by the English collector Lord Amherst, the manuscript is exceptional for its extensive illumination. Webs of foliage cover every margin, most sprouting medallions containing flora and fauna. The divisions in the text are marked by twenty richly painted full-page miniatures, often accompanied by related marginalia. Further illumination in the form of historiated and foliate initials marks minor breaks in the text, and the overall effect is a visual feast for the reader.
Gothic bookhand
Principal cataloger: Marrow, James
Cataloger: Dutschke, Consuelo
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Valle, Chiara
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Boot, Christine
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Gorissen, Friedrich. Das Stundenbuch der Katharina von Kleve: Analyse und Kommentar. Berlin, 1973, pp. 83, 605, and 963.
De Vreese, W. "Een noordnederlandsch handschrift met 'verlichteriên' uit het midden van de vijftiende eeuw," in Het Boek 11 (1922), pp. 33-62, 161-182, pl. I-III, V-VII.
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. 793, cat. no. 229.
Miner, Dorothy. "Dutch Illuminated Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery," The Connoisseur Year Book, 1955.
Byvanck, A.W., and G.J. Hoogewerff. La miniature hollandaise. The Hague, 1926, p. 21, cat. no. 40, pl. IX, figs. 38 and 39 (fols. 67v-68r and 77v-78r).
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.
Netherlands
15th century CE
book
Non-original Binding
Eighteenth-century green morocco over pulp- or paste-board; gilt tooled floral motif
The primary language in this manuscript is Dutch; Flemish.
Created in the Netherlands, fifteenth century; calendar for Use of Utrecht
Reynold Gideon Bowyer
William, Baron Amherst, before 1908
Lady William Cecil sale, London, December 12, 1911, no. 57, sold to Bishop
Bishop
Sotheby sale, London, January 17, 1921, no. 580, sold to Herzberger
Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired through Paul Gruel
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Netherlands
15th century CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Dutch; Flemish.
Created in the Netherlands, fifteenth century; calendar for Use of Utrecht
Reynold Gideon Bowyer
William, Baron Amherst, before 1908
Lady William Cecil sale, London, December 12, 1911, no. 57, sold to Bishop
Bishop
Sotheby sale, London, January 17, 1921, no. 580, sold to Herzberger
Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired through Paul Gruel
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This book of hours was written in Dutch in the fifteenth century for the use of Utrecht. The Hours of the Virgin and of the Cross are accompanied here by the Dutch translation of Henry Suso's "Cursus aeternae sapientiae," a text that was particularly popular for private devotion in the Netherlands. Once owned by the English collector Lord Amherst, the manuscript is exceptional for its extensive illumination. Webs of foliage cover every margin, most sprouting medallions containing flora and fauna. The divisions in the text are marked by twenty richly painted full-page miniatures, often accompanied by related marginalia. Further illumination in the form of historiated and foliate initials marks minor breaks in the text, and the overall effect is a visual feast for the reader.
Gothic bookhand
Principal cataloger: Marrow, James
Cataloger: Dutschke, Consuelo
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Valle, Chiara
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Boot, Christine
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Gorissen, Friedrich. Das Stundenbuch der Katharina von Kleve: Analyse und Kommentar. Berlin, 1973, pp. 83, 605, and 963.
De Vreese, W. "Een noordnederlandsch handschrift met 'verlichteriên' uit het midden van de vijftiende eeuw," in Het Boek 11 (1922), pp. 33-62, 161-182, pl. I-III, V-VII.
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. 793, cat. no. 229.
Miner, Dorothy. "Dutch Illuminated Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery," The Connoisseur Year Book, 1955.
Byvanck, A.W., and G.J. Hoogewerff. La miniature hollandaise. The Hague, 1926, p. 21, cat. no. 40, pl. IX, figs. 38 and 39 (fols. 67v-68r and 77v-78r).
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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