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 large Book of Hours was created ca. 1440-50 in Bruges by the Masters of the Gold Scrolls. The original female patron was especially devoted to Franciscan and French saints, as evinced by the content of the calendar, litany, and suffrages. Although six images have been lost, the remaining seventeen miniatures and eight historiated initials are fine representations of the later work of the Gold Scrolls artists working in Bruges through ca. 1450.
Written in textura
artist: Masters of the Gold Scrolls
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Catalogus librorum Joannis Baptistæ Verdussen. Auctio eorum publicè habebitur. Antwerp, 1776, p. 18, no. 30; see also accompanying manuscript page with sale information in Oxford copy.
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. 794, no. 237.
Panofsky, Erwin. Early Netherlandish Painting: Its Origins and Character. Vols. I-II. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1953, p. 122, n.1, p. 126, n. 1.
Dogaer, G., Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th Centuries, Amsterdam, 1987, p. 31
Farquhar, James Douglas. Manuscript Production and Evidence for Localizing and Dating Fifteenth-Century Books of Hours: Walters Ms. 239. Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 45 (1987):44-102, pp. 48, 64, 75, figs. 7, 25, fol. 59.
Gifford, Melanie. "Pattern and Style in a Flemish Book of Hours: Walters Ms. 239". Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 45 (1987): 89-102, pp. 75. 80, 93, figs 25 and 41, fols. 59 and 56.
Owens, M.B., "Musical Subjects in the Illumination of Books of Hours from Fifteenth-Century France and Flanders," PhD dissertation, University of Chicago, 1987, p. 389
Sinclair, K.V., Prières en ancien français. Additions et corrections aux articles 1-2374 du Rèpertoire de Sonet: Supplément, Townsville, Qld., 1987, no. 458, 504, and 846
Smeyers, M., A Mid-Fifteenth Century Book of Hours from Bruges in the Walters Art Gallery (Ms. 721) and Its Relation to the Turin-Milan Hours, 1988, p. 74
Wieck, Roger S. Time Sanctified. The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life. New York: George Braziller. 1988, pp. 68, 190-191, cat. no. 45, fig. 45, fol. 26.
Orr, Michael T. Illustration as Preface and Postscript in the Hours of the Virgin of Trinity College MS. B. 11.7. Vol. 34:2. Gesta. 1995, pp. 164-165, fig. 5, fol. 26.
Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. III, Part I, Belgium 1250-1530. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 1997, pp. 186-193, cat. no. 240, figs. 463-464.
Fox, Robert, edit. Discovering New Worlds. Eyewitness to History 4. London: The Folio Society, 2008.
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.
Bruges
Ca. 1440-1450 CE
book
Non-original Binding
Bound in Belgium in the third quarter of the seventeenth century in red leather with gold tooled designs of foliage and eight-pointed stars; sewn on five double or slit-tawed straps at original stations; pastedowns of high quality, with gold foliate designs pressed into an orange ground; spine rounded and possibly backed, with parchment patch liners; gilded designs on raised bands as well as between, and gilt title reads "OFFICIUM BEATAE MARIAE"; pink and white endbands with edge-bead around core; page edges gilt
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is French, Middle (ca.1400-1600).
Created for use of Rome ca. 1440-50 for a female patron with special devotion to Franciscan and French saints; can be localized to Bruges through its artists, the Masters of the Gold scrolls
Jean-Baptiste Verdussen, Anvers, his bookplates
Van Merlen, purchased from Verdussen sale in 1776, recorded in Oxford copy of catalog in manuscript after p. 18; there were generations of printers by the name van Merlen in Angers, where Verdussen was also a printer, so it is possible the van Merlen listed as purchaser was one of Verdussen's colleagues
Early nineteenth-century inscription in ink by unknown hand, assigning the book "No. 28" on front flyleaf i, r
Early nineteenth-century contents list in French
Count Alfred Werlé, Rheims, late nineteenth century until 1908, his bookplate with monogram and "No. 1776" on front pastedown; his sale, Paris, Feb. 5, 1908, no. 6 in vol. 2 of catalog
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased between 1908 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Bruges
Ca. 1440-1450 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is French, Middle (ca.1400-1600).
Created for use of Rome ca. 1440-50 for a female patron with special devotion to Franciscan and French saints; can be localized to Bruges through its artists, the Masters of the Gold scrolls
Jean-Baptiste Verdussen, Anvers, his bookplates
Van Merlen, purchased from Verdussen sale in 1776, recorded in Oxford copy of catalog in manuscript after p. 18; there were generations of printers by the name van Merlen in Angers, where Verdussen was also a printer, so it is possible the van Merlen listed as purchaser was one of Verdussen's colleagues
Early nineteenth-century inscription in ink by unknown hand, assigning the book "No. 28" on front flyleaf i, r
Early nineteenth-century contents list in French
Count Alfred Werlé, Rheims, late nineteenth century until 1908, his bookplate with monogram and "No. 1776" on front pastedown; his sale, Paris, Feb. 5, 1908, no. 6 in vol. 2 of catalog
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased between 1908 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This large Book of Hours was created ca. 1440-50 in Bruges by the Masters of the Gold Scrolls. The original female patron was especially devoted to Franciscan and French saints, as evinced by the content of the calendar, litany, and suffrages. Although six images have been lost, the remaining seventeen miniatures and eight historiated initials are fine representations of the later work of the Gold Scrolls artists working in Bruges through ca. 1450.
Written in textura
artist: Masters of the Gold Scrolls
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Catalogus librorum Joannis Baptistæ Verdussen. Auctio eorum publicè habebitur. Antwerp, 1776, p. 18, no. 30; see also accompanying manuscript page with sale information in Oxford copy.
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. 794, no. 237.
Panofsky, Erwin. Early Netherlandish Painting: Its Origins and Character. Vols. I-II. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1953, p. 122, n.1, p. 126, n. 1.
Dogaer, G., Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th Centuries, Amsterdam, 1987, p. 31
Farquhar, James Douglas. Manuscript Production and Evidence for Localizing and Dating Fifteenth-Century Books of Hours: Walters Ms. 239. Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 45 (1987):44-102, pp. 48, 64, 75, figs. 7, 25, fol. 59.
Gifford, Melanie. "Pattern and Style in a Flemish Book of Hours: Walters Ms. 239". Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 45 (1987): 89-102, pp. 75. 80, 93, figs 25 and 41, fols. 59 and 56.
Owens, M.B., "Musical Subjects in the Illumination of Books of Hours from Fifteenth-Century France and Flanders," PhD dissertation, University of Chicago, 1987, p. 389
Sinclair, K.V., Prières en ancien français. Additions et corrections aux articles 1-2374 du Rèpertoire de Sonet: Supplément, Townsville, Qld., 1987, no. 458, 504, and 846
Smeyers, M., A Mid-Fifteenth Century Book of Hours from Bruges in the Walters Art Gallery (Ms. 721) and Its Relation to the Turin-Milan Hours, 1988, p. 74
Wieck, Roger S. Time Sanctified. The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life. New York: George Braziller. 1988, pp. 68, 190-191, cat. no. 45, fig. 45, fol. 26.
Orr, Michael T. Illustration as Preface and Postscript in the Hours of the Virgin of Trinity College MS. B. 11.7. Vol. 34:2. Gesta. 1995, pp. 164-165, fig. 5, fol. 26.
Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. III, Part I, Belgium 1250-1530. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 1997, pp. 186-193, cat. no. 240, figs. 463-464.
Fox, Robert, edit. Discovering New Worlds. Eyewitness to History 4. London: The Folio Society, 2008.
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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