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.
Completed for liturgical use of the Augustinian Canons of the Windesheim Chapter ca. 1450, this Book of Hours features eleven extant miniatures and nine historiated initials. The manuscript was illuminated by the Master of the Ghent Privileges and associates, possibly in Tournai. The first owner's association with Ghent as a cleric is evinced in the graded calendar, with possible visual references on fols. 1r and 82v. Along with occasional marginal additions, this Book of Hours also features some heraldry that attests to a cherished history.
Seventeenth-century hand has added notated responsories and antiphons in margins
artist: Master of the Ghent Privileges and associates
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Herbold, Rebekah
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Wallace, Susan
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
De Ricci, Seymour, and W. J. Wilson. 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. 195.
Delaissé, L.M.J. "An Exhibition of Netherlandish Book Illumination, April 22 through May 12" at Oberlin College. Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 17 (1960): 94-113; cat. no. 31.
Van Buren, A. Review of Die illuminierten handschriften und inkunabeln der österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, ser. 1/6: Flämische Schule I by Otto Pächt, Ulrike Jenni, and Dagmar Thoss. Art Bulletin 67 (1985): 327-331; pp. 328.
Dogaer, G. Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th Centuries. Amsterdam: B.M. Israel BV, 1987; pp. 31.
Owens, M.B. "Musical Subjects in the Illumination of Books of Hours from Fifteenth-Century France and Flanders." Ph.D. diss, University of Chicago, 1987: 389.
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. 30, 71, 210: no. 85, Pl. 27.
Stejskal, K. "Reportáž o cestě za francouzskými a belgickými illuminátory rukopisů v pražské Národní knihovné." Dějiny a Současnos. Kulturně Historická Revue 16 (1994): 37-42; p. 41.
Wieck, Roger S. "Inventive Efficiency from the Master of Ghent Privileges; or, A Little Bit of Hell Goes a Long Way." In Medieval Codiology, Iconography, Literature, and Translation: Studies for Keith Val Sinclair, edited by P.R. Monks and D.D.R. Owen. Leiden: Litterae Textuales, 1994; p. 137, Fig. 45.
Bousmanne, Bernard. Item à Guillaume Wyelant aussi enlumineur: Willem Vrelant, un aspect de l'enluminure dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux sous le mécénat des ducs de Bourgogne Philippe le Bon et Charles le Téméraire. Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique. Turnhout: Brepols, 1997; p. 354 (n. 37),
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; 219-226, cat. no. 245.
Cardon, Bert. "The Portfolio of a Bruges Miniaturist in the Mid-Fifteenth Century." In "Als Ich Can": Liber Amicorum in Memory of Professor Dr. Maurits Smeyers, edited by Bert Cardon, Jan Van der Stock, and Dominique Vanwijnsberghe, 319-355, vol. 1. Leuven: Peeters Press, 2002; p. 337.
Clark, Gregory T. Made in Flanders: The Master of the Ghent Privileges and Manuscript Painting in the Southern Netherlands in the Time of Philip the Good. Turnhout: Brepols, 2000; pp. 29-31, 33, 47, 54, 58, 65-66, 79-80, 83, 92, 94-95, 97, 122, 129, 131-32 135, 139, 141, 160, 163-164, 167, 171, 189-191, Figs. 10-11, 93-104.
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. 286, 290 (n. 17).
Clark, Gregory T. "'Made In Flanders' and the Master of the Ghent Privileges: A Second Coda." In Tributes in Honor of James H. Marrow: Studies in Painting and Manuscript Illumination of the late Middle Ages and Northern Renaissance. Edited by Jeffrey F. Hamburger, James H. Marrow, and A. S. Korteweg, 155-172. Turnhout, Belgium: Harvey Miller, 2006; p. 156.
Reynolds, Catherine. "The Undecorated Margin: The Fashion for Luxury Books without Borders." In Flemish Manuscript Painting in Context: Recent Research, edited by Elizabeth Morrison and Thomas Kren, 9-26. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2006; pp. 13, 24.
Scillia, Diane. "The Master of the Tiburtine Sibyl's Raising of Lazarus (Mexico City, San Carlos Museum) and the Early Haarlem School of Painting Reconsidered." In Tributes in Honor of James H. Marrow: Studies in Painting and Manuscript Illumination of the late Middle Ages and Northern Renaissance. Edited by Jeffrey F. Hamburger, James H. Marrow, and A. S. Korteweg, 453-464. Turnhout, Belgium: Harvey Miller, 2006; pp. 457-459.
König, Eberhard. "Zur Farbigkeit der verbannten Gefangennahme im Turiner Gebetbuch." In Quand la peinture était dans les livres: Mélanges en l'honneur de François Avril. Edited by Mara Hofmann, Caroline Zöhl, Eberhard König, Jonathan James Graham Alexander, and Lucy Freeman Sandler, 111-128. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007; pp. 121, 122, 126.
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
Ca. 1450 CE
book
Non-original Binding
Rebound with red-brown velvet in Belgium (?), late nineteenth century; spine rounded, backed at that time; endbands glued, with striped cloth around cord core; edges speckled with red; pastedowns and facing flyleaves made of purple-gray and white marbleized paper
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Made for a cleric in the 1450s, likely for the use of the Augustinian Canons of the Windesheim Chapter; illuminated possibly in Tournai by the Master of the Ghent Privileges and associates; calendar saints suggest an association with Ghent
Havet family of Tournai
Sixteenth-century inscription in pale ink, "servio Alberto Godefrido Cluter..."
Unknown owner numbered manuscript in modern pencil "N. 1200" on front flyleaf ii, r
Gruel and Engelmann, Paris, late nineteenth or early twentieth century, their bookplate inscribed with "No. 60" on front pastedown
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Flanders
Ca. 1450 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Made for a cleric in the 1450s, likely for the use of the Augustinian Canons of the Windesheim Chapter; illuminated possibly in Tournai by the Master of the Ghent Privileges and associates; calendar saints suggest an association with Ghent
Havet family of Tournai
Sixteenth-century inscription in pale ink, "servio Alberto Godefrido Cluter..."
Unknown owner numbered manuscript in modern pencil "N. 1200" on front flyleaf ii, r
Gruel and Engelmann, Paris, late nineteenth or early twentieth century, their bookplate inscribed with "No. 60" on front pastedown
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Completed for liturgical use of the Augustinian Canons of the Windesheim Chapter ca. 1450, this Book of Hours features eleven extant miniatures and nine historiated initials. The manuscript was illuminated by the Master of the Ghent Privileges and associates, possibly in Tournai. The first owner's association with Ghent as a cleric is evinced in the graded calendar, with possible visual references on fols. 1r and 82v. Along with occasional marginal additions, this Book of Hours also features some heraldry that attests to a cherished history.
Seventeenth-century hand has added notated responsories and antiphons in margins
artist: Master of the Ghent Privileges and associates
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Herbold, Rebekah
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Wallace, Susan
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
De Ricci, Seymour, and W. J. Wilson. 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. 195.
Delaissé, L.M.J. "An Exhibition of Netherlandish Book Illumination, April 22 through May 12" at Oberlin College. Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 17 (1960): 94-113; cat. no. 31.
Van Buren, A. Review of Die illuminierten handschriften und inkunabeln der österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, ser. 1/6: Flämische Schule I by Otto Pächt, Ulrike Jenni, and Dagmar Thoss. Art Bulletin 67 (1985): 327-331; pp. 328.
Dogaer, G. Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th Centuries. Amsterdam: B.M. Israel BV, 1987; pp. 31.
Owens, M.B. "Musical Subjects in the Illumination of Books of Hours from Fifteenth-Century France and Flanders." Ph.D. diss, University of Chicago, 1987: 389.
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. 30, 71, 210: no. 85, Pl. 27.
Stejskal, K. "Reportáž o cestě za francouzskými a belgickými illuminátory rukopisů v pražské Národní knihovné." Dějiny a Současnos. Kulturně Historická Revue 16 (1994): 37-42; p. 41.
Wieck, Roger S. "Inventive Efficiency from the Master of Ghent Privileges; or, A Little Bit of Hell Goes a Long Way." In Medieval Codiology, Iconography, Literature, and Translation: Studies for Keith Val Sinclair, edited by P.R. Monks and D.D.R. Owen. Leiden: Litterae Textuales, 1994; p. 137, Fig. 45.
Bousmanne, Bernard. Item à Guillaume Wyelant aussi enlumineur: Willem Vrelant, un aspect de l'enluminure dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux sous le mécénat des ducs de Bourgogne Philippe le Bon et Charles le Téméraire. Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique. Turnhout: Brepols, 1997; p. 354 (n. 37),
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; 219-226, cat. no. 245.
Cardon, Bert. "The Portfolio of a Bruges Miniaturist in the Mid-Fifteenth Century." In "Als Ich Can": Liber Amicorum in Memory of Professor Dr. Maurits Smeyers, edited by Bert Cardon, Jan Van der Stock, and Dominique Vanwijnsberghe, 319-355, vol. 1. Leuven: Peeters Press, 2002; p. 337.
Clark, Gregory T. Made in Flanders: The Master of the Ghent Privileges and Manuscript Painting in the Southern Netherlands in the Time of Philip the Good. Turnhout: Brepols, 2000; pp. 29-31, 33, 47, 54, 58, 65-66, 79-80, 83, 92, 94-95, 97, 122, 129, 131-32 135, 139, 141, 160, 163-164, 167, 171, 189-191, Figs. 10-11, 93-104.
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. 286, 290 (n. 17).
Clark, Gregory T. "'Made In Flanders' and the Master of the Ghent Privileges: A Second Coda." In Tributes in Honor of James H. Marrow: Studies in Painting and Manuscript Illumination of the late Middle Ages and Northern Renaissance. Edited by Jeffrey F. Hamburger, James H. Marrow, and A. S. Korteweg, 155-172. Turnhout, Belgium: Harvey Miller, 2006; p. 156.
Reynolds, Catherine. "The Undecorated Margin: The Fashion for Luxury Books without Borders." In Flemish Manuscript Painting in Context: Recent Research, edited by Elizabeth Morrison and Thomas Kren, 9-26. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2006; pp. 13, 24.
Scillia, Diane. "The Master of the Tiburtine Sibyl's Raising of Lazarus (Mexico City, San Carlos Museum) and the Early Haarlem School of Painting Reconsidered." In Tributes in Honor of James H. Marrow: Studies in Painting and Manuscript Illumination of the late Middle Ages and Northern Renaissance. Edited by Jeffrey F. Hamburger, James H. Marrow, and A. S. Korteweg, 453-464. Turnhout, Belgium: Harvey Miller, 2006; pp. 457-459.
König, Eberhard. "Zur Farbigkeit der verbannten Gefangennahme im Turiner Gebetbuch." In Quand la peinture était dans les livres: Mélanges en l'honneur de François Avril. Edited by Mara Hofmann, Caroline Zöhl, Eberhard König, Jonathan James Graham Alexander, and Lucy Freeman Sandler, 111-128. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007; pp. 121, 122, 126.
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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