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 early fifteenth-century Book of Hours was created for a woman's use in Bruges or Ghent. Although her name is unknown (as are those subsequent earlier owners), its first folio bears the later ownership inscription of Pastor Denys, ca. 1700. The early addition of texts and prints, as well as the later removal of some prints and miniatures, reveals that it was well used and modified for different tastes over many centuries. The eleven extant full-page miniatures and single historiated initial still retain their rich, vibrant colors, and their contrast with the remaining uncolored print shows the variety of visual elements that could be enjoyed together in a medieval book.
Gothic bookhand; several hands evident: fols. 10v-22r and 31r-153v appear to be early fifteenth-century hands and represent the first phase of the book's production; fols. 23r-26v and 154r-196r appear to be from the second half of the fifteenth century and are early additions to the manuscript
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Valle, Chiara
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Boot, Christine
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Schuele, Allyson
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Exhibition Catalogue: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1934; ref. under cat. no. 102.
Byvanck, Alexander W. "Kroniek der Noord-Nederlandsche miniaturen, II." Bulletin van de Koninklijke Nederlandsche Oudheidkundige 4 (1935): 10-20; p. 16, Pl. VIII.
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. 194.
Panofsky, Erwin. Early Netherlandish Painting. Cambridge, Mass.: Harper and Row, 1953; pp. 118, 121, 122.
Delaissé, Leon M.J. "An Exhibition of Netherlandish Book Illumination, April 22 through May 12" [Oberlin Memorial College]. Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 17 (1960): 94-113; cat. no. 30.
Cardon, Bert, Mauritius Smeyers, and Robrecht Lievens. Typologische Taferelen uit het leven van Jezus: A Manuscript from the Gold Scrolls Group (Bruges, ca. 1440) in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, Ms. Morgan 649. Leuven: Peeters, 1985; p. 162.
Dogaer, Georges. Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th Centuries. Amsterdam:B.M. Israël, 1987; p. 31.
Owens, Michelle B. "Musical Subjects in the Illumination of Books of Hours from Fifteenth-Century France and Flanders." Ph.D. diss, University of Chicago, 1987; p. 388.
Smeyers, Katharina, and Susie Vertongen. "Manuscrits pré-Eyckiens: Production en masse et pratiques d'altier II." In Le dessin sous-jacent dans la peinture. Edited by R. van Schoute and H. Verougstraete-Marcq, pp. 75-89. Université Catholique de Louvain, Institut Supérieur d'Archelogie et d'Histoire de l'Art, Colloque IX (12-14 Sept. 1991), Document de Travail 27; pp. 75, 76, 78, 80, 82, 87, 88, Pl. 32a.
Smeyers, Maurits, and Bert Cardon. "Utrecht and Bruges--South and North 'Boundless Relations' in the 15th Century." In Masters and Miniatures. Proceedings of the Congress on Medieval Manuscript Illumination in the Northern Netherlands (Utrecht, 10-13 December 1989). Edited by K. van der Horst and Jean-Claude Klamt, pp. 89-108. Studies and Facsimiles of Netherlandish Illuminated Manuscripts 3. Doornspijk: Davaco, 1991; p. 96.
Smeyers, Maurits, Bert Cardon, et al. Vlaamse miniaturen voor van Eyck. Corpus van verluchte handschriften 6, Low Countries Series 4. Leuven: Uitgeverij Allmedia, 1993; pp. 17, 29, 31-34; cat. no. 11, 133, 159, fig. 12.
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. 104-112, cat. no. 229.
Stroo, Cyriel. "The Antwerp Infancy Cycle: A Disregarded Masterpiece." In "Als Ich Can": Liber Amicorum in Memory of Professor Dr. Maurits Smeyers, edited by Bert Cardon, Jan Van der Stock, and Dominique Vanwijnsberghe, 1273-1294, vol. 2. Leuven: Peeters Press, 2002; p. 1284 (n. 30).
Mund, Hélène. "Anonymous Master- The Tower Retable with Scenes from the Life of Christ." The The Mayer van den Bergh Museum, Antwerp. Edited by Helene Mund, Cyriel Stroo, and Nicole Goetghebeur, 202-287. Brussels: Centre d'étude de la peinture du quinzième siècle dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux et la Principauté de Liège, 2003; p. 252.
Smeyers, Katharina. "Iconographic Cycles in Légendes Dorées." In Manuscripts in transition: Recycling Manuscripts, Texts, and Images. Proceedings of the International Congres held in Brussels (5-9 November 2002). Edited by Brigitte Dekeyzer and Jan van der Stock, 285-290. Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters, 2005; pp. 288, 290 (n. 23).
Bräm, Andreas. "'Fratrum minorum mater': Heiligenbilder als Angleichung und zum Patronat in Frankreich und Flandern und in der Anjou-Hofkunst Neapels." In Elisabeth von Thüringen: Eine europäische Heilige, vol. 2. Edited by Uwe John and Dieter Blume, 309-324. Hesse: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2007; p. 324 (n. 85 for p. 322).
Dneffe, Dominique, Famke Peters, and Wim Fremout. Pre-Eyckian Panel Painting in the Low Countries, Vol. 1. Brussels: Brepols, 2009; pp. 119 (n. 102 for p. 100), 190 (n. 90 for p. 177), 192 (n. 122 for p. 182), 307 (n. 50 for p. 298).
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.
Flanders
Early 15th century CE
book
Non-original Binding
Late nineteenth- or early twentieth-century binding by Léon Gruel, Paris; purple velvet over cardboard with gilt edges
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is Dutch; Flemish.
Made in Flanders in the early fifteenth century for a woman's use in Bruges or Ghent
Pastor Denys, ca. 1700
Léon Gruel and Edmund Engelmann, Paris, late nineteenth to early twentieth century; their bookplate on inside upper board, no. 98
Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired from Gruel and Engelmann before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Flanders
Early 15th century CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is Dutch; Flemish.
Made in Flanders in the early fifteenth century for a woman's use in Bruges or Ghent
Pastor Denys, ca. 1700
Léon Gruel and Edmund Engelmann, Paris, late nineteenth to early twentieth century; their bookplate on inside upper board, no. 98
Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired from Gruel and Engelmann before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This early fifteenth-century Book of Hours was created for a woman's use in Bruges or Ghent. Although her name is unknown (as are those subsequent earlier owners), its first folio bears the later ownership inscription of Pastor Denys, ca. 1700. The early addition of texts and prints, as well as the later removal of some prints and miniatures, reveals that it was well used and modified for different tastes over many centuries. The eleven extant full-page miniatures and single historiated initial still retain their rich, vibrant colors, and their contrast with the remaining uncolored print shows the variety of visual elements that could be enjoyed together in a medieval book.
Gothic bookhand; several hands evident: fols. 10v-22r and 31r-153v appear to be early fifteenth-century hands and represent the first phase of the book's production; fols. 23r-26v and 154r-196r appear to be from the second half of the fifteenth century and are early additions to the manuscript
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Valle, Chiara
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Boot, Christine
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Schuele, Allyson
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Exhibition Catalogue: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1934; ref. under cat. no. 102.
Byvanck, Alexander W. "Kroniek der Noord-Nederlandsche miniaturen, II." Bulletin van de Koninklijke Nederlandsche Oudheidkundige 4 (1935): 10-20; p. 16, Pl. VIII.
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. 194.
Panofsky, Erwin. Early Netherlandish Painting. Cambridge, Mass.: Harper and Row, 1953; pp. 118, 121, 122.
Delaissé, Leon M.J. "An Exhibition of Netherlandish Book Illumination, April 22 through May 12" [Oberlin Memorial College]. Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 17 (1960): 94-113; cat. no. 30.
Cardon, Bert, Mauritius Smeyers, and Robrecht Lievens. Typologische Taferelen uit het leven van Jezus: A Manuscript from the Gold Scrolls Group (Bruges, ca. 1440) in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, Ms. Morgan 649. Leuven: Peeters, 1985; p. 162.
Dogaer, Georges. Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th Centuries. Amsterdam:B.M. Israël, 1987; p. 31.
Owens, Michelle B. "Musical Subjects in the Illumination of Books of Hours from Fifteenth-Century France and Flanders." Ph.D. diss, University of Chicago, 1987; p. 388.
Smeyers, Katharina, and Susie Vertongen. "Manuscrits pré-Eyckiens: Production en masse et pratiques d'altier II." In Le dessin sous-jacent dans la peinture. Edited by R. van Schoute and H. Verougstraete-Marcq, pp. 75-89. Université Catholique de Louvain, Institut Supérieur d'Archelogie et d'Histoire de l'Art, Colloque IX (12-14 Sept. 1991), Document de Travail 27; pp. 75, 76, 78, 80, 82, 87, 88, Pl. 32a.
Smeyers, Maurits, and Bert Cardon. "Utrecht and Bruges--South and North 'Boundless Relations' in the 15th Century." In Masters and Miniatures. Proceedings of the Congress on Medieval Manuscript Illumination in the Northern Netherlands (Utrecht, 10-13 December 1989). Edited by K. van der Horst and Jean-Claude Klamt, pp. 89-108. Studies and Facsimiles of Netherlandish Illuminated Manuscripts 3. Doornspijk: Davaco, 1991; p. 96.
Smeyers, Maurits, Bert Cardon, et al. Vlaamse miniaturen voor van Eyck. Corpus van verluchte handschriften 6, Low Countries Series 4. Leuven: Uitgeverij Allmedia, 1993; pp. 17, 29, 31-34; cat. no. 11, 133, 159, fig. 12.
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. 104-112, cat. no. 229.
Stroo, Cyriel. "The Antwerp Infancy Cycle: A Disregarded Masterpiece." In "Als Ich Can": Liber Amicorum in Memory of Professor Dr. Maurits Smeyers, edited by Bert Cardon, Jan Van der Stock, and Dominique Vanwijnsberghe, 1273-1294, vol. 2. Leuven: Peeters Press, 2002; p. 1284 (n. 30).
Mund, Hélène. "Anonymous Master- The Tower Retable with Scenes from the Life of Christ." The The Mayer van den Bergh Museum, Antwerp. Edited by Helene Mund, Cyriel Stroo, and Nicole Goetghebeur, 202-287. Brussels: Centre d'étude de la peinture du quinzième siècle dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux et la Principauté de Liège, 2003; p. 252.
Smeyers, Katharina. "Iconographic Cycles in Légendes Dorées." In Manuscripts in transition: Recycling Manuscripts, Texts, and Images. Proceedings of the International Congres held in Brussels (5-9 November 2002). Edited by Brigitte Dekeyzer and Jan van der Stock, 285-290. Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters, 2005; pp. 288, 290 (n. 23).
Bräm, Andreas. "'Fratrum minorum mater': Heiligenbilder als Angleichung und zum Patronat in Frankreich und Flandern und in der Anjou-Hofkunst Neapels." In Elisabeth von Thüringen: Eine europäische Heilige, vol. 2. Edited by Uwe John and Dieter Blume, 309-324. Hesse: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2007; p. 324 (n. 85 for p. 322).
Dneffe, Dominique, Famke Peters, and Wim Fremout. Pre-Eyckian Panel Painting in the Low Countries, Vol. 1. Brussels: Brepols, 2009; pp. 119 (n. 102 for p. 100), 190 (n. 90 for p. 177), 192 (n. 122 for p. 182), 307 (n. 50 for p. 298).
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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