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 pocket-size Flemish Book of Hours was created in Bruges between 1460 and 1470. A heavy contingent of South Netherlandish and northern French saints in the litany helps localize its production. The Italianate script and later Italian provenance suggest that the manuscript might have been created for a member of the Italian community in Bruges. It contains twelve full-page miniatures produced by a single artist working in the style of the prolific mid-fifteenth-century Flemish illuminator Willem Vrelant. Several other Books of Hours in the Walters' collection are similar in style to this manuscript, exhibiting the characteristics of the Vrelant circle, notably W.179, W.180, and W.183.
Large decorated illuminated initial and foliate margins on 114r; lacks full-page miniature before fol. 144
artist: Circle of Willem Vrelant
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Kladstrup, Regan
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbold, Rebekah
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. 813, cat. no. 345.
"Bulletin Codicologique." Scriptorium 27 (1973); p. 395.
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. 390.
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. 275-278, cat. no. 255.
Christie's. Sale 6237--Fine Books and Manuscripts. South Kensington, London, 19 June 2012; ref. under lot 3 "St. Nicholas and the Miracle at Sea, Full-Page Miniature on a Leaf from a Book of Hours, Illuminated Manuscript on Vellum, [Southern Netherlands, Probably Bruges, c.1470]."
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, Flanders
Ca. 1460-70 CE
book
Non-original Binding
Italian eighteenth-century full brown morocco, resewn on three single cords; gilt decorative roll borders on boards with foliate decorations in all corners; flat spine with three panels (not aligned with sewing stations) framed in gilt, each with foliate ornament at center; all edges gilt; twelve modern leather dealer tabs (or remains thereof) at fore-edge; black-speckled blue paper pastedowns
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Made in Bruges, ca. 1460-70, for the Use of Rome, in the circle of Willem Vrelant, probably for a member of the Italian community in Bruges
Franciscus Antonius Noveria, eighteenth-century gift inscription on verso of front flyleaf: "Ad usum Francisci Antonii Noveriae
Léon Gruel, Paris, late nineteenth or early twentieth century; his catalog number "No 841" on recto of front flyleaf
Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired from Gruel before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Bruges, Flanders
Ca. 1460-70 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Made in Bruges, ca. 1460-70, for the Use of Rome, in the circle of Willem Vrelant, probably for a member of the Italian community in Bruges
Franciscus Antonius Noveria, eighteenth-century gift inscription on verso of front flyleaf: "Ad usum Francisci Antonii Noveriae
Léon Gruel, Paris, late nineteenth or early twentieth century; his catalog number "No 841" on recto of front flyleaf
Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired from Gruel before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This pocket-size Flemish Book of Hours was created in Bruges between 1460 and 1470. A heavy contingent of South Netherlandish and northern French saints in the litany helps localize its production. The Italianate script and later Italian provenance suggest that the manuscript might have been created for a member of the Italian community in Bruges. It contains twelve full-page miniatures produced by a single artist working in the style of the prolific mid-fifteenth-century Flemish illuminator Willem Vrelant. Several other Books of Hours in the Walters' collection are similar in style to this manuscript, exhibiting the characteristics of the Vrelant circle, notably W.179, W.180, and W.183.
Large decorated illuminated initial and foliate margins on 114r; lacks full-page miniature before fol. 144
artist: Circle of Willem Vrelant
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Kladstrup, Regan
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbold, Rebekah
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. 813, cat. no. 345.
"Bulletin Codicologique." Scriptorium 27 (1973); p. 395.
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. 390.
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. 275-278, cat. no. 255.
Christie's. Sale 6237--Fine Books and Manuscripts. South Kensington, London, 19 June 2012; ref. under lot 3 "St. Nicholas and the Miracle at Sea, Full-Page Miniature on a Leaf from a Book of Hours, Illuminated Manuscript on Vellum, [Southern Netherlands, Probably Bruges, c.1470]."
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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