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 small Book of Hours was made at the turn of the sixteenth century. The illuminations are in the style of the Master of the Prayerbook of ca. 1500, active in Bruges. The name of the first owner is inscribed in the book in a prayer on fol. 241v, in which a man named Philip confesses himself a sinner and prays for his heart to be pure. The series of full-page miniatures opens with an interesting illumination of the Salvator Mundi that was a common theme in South Netherlandish illumination in this period. A comparable example, painted by the Master of the Prayerbook c. 1500, is found in the manuscript Vat. Ross. Lat. 94.
Full-page miniature with borders fol. 158v
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Valle, Chiara
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Brown, Emily
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbold, Rebekah
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Schuele, Allyson
Contributor: Shartrand, Emily
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. 804, cat. no. 297.
Bowles, Edmund A. "A Checklist of Musical Instruments in Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscripts at the Walters Art Gallery." Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 32, no. 4 (1976): 719-726; pp. 722, 726.
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; pp. 390-391.
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. 494-500, cat. no. 292.
As-Vijvers, Anne Margreet. "Manuscript Production in a Carmelite Convent: The Case of Cornelia von Wulfschkercke." In Books of Hours Reconsidered, edited by Sandra Hindman and James H. Marrow, 279-296. London and Turnhout: Harvey Miller, 2013; 291, 293 fig. 13 (fol. 29v, as Master of Raphael de Mercatellis), 296 n. 50.
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. 1500 CE
book
Non-original Binding
Rebound in France at the beginning of the twentieth century with dark red velvet; sewn on five double cords or tawed thongs; eighteenth-century Flemish cast silver guards with foliate designs, catch and clasp centered at fore-edge; the clasp shows inside a monogram "AG" that was likely added later
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is French, Middle (ca.1400-1600).
Created ca. 1200, possibly in Bruges, for original owner named Philip
Durey
Dated monogram "P.P.L. 1702" on back pastedown
London, Sotheby's, March 17, 1902, lot. no. 709; book sold to Leighton bookseller
Maggs Bros., London, white ticket with blue border on front pastedown top left, inscribed "Aa.V./140"
Henry Walters bought the manuscript for $200, likely from Maggs. Bros. at uncertain date
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Bruges (?)
Ca. 1500 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is French, Middle (ca.1400-1600).
Created ca. 1200, possibly in Bruges, for original owner named Philip
Durey
Dated monogram "P.P.L. 1702" on back pastedown
London, Sotheby's, March 17, 1902, lot. no. 709; book sold to Leighton bookseller
Maggs Bros., London, white ticket with blue border on front pastedown top left, inscribed "Aa.V./140"
Henry Walters bought the manuscript for $200, likely from Maggs. Bros. at uncertain date
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This small Book of Hours was made at the turn of the sixteenth century. The illuminations are in the style of the Master of the Prayerbook of ca. 1500, active in Bruges. The name of the first owner is inscribed in the book in a prayer on fol. 241v, in which a man named Philip confesses himself a sinner and prays for his heart to be pure. The series of full-page miniatures opens with an interesting illumination of the Salvator Mundi that was a common theme in South Netherlandish illumination in this period. A comparable example, painted by the Master of the Prayerbook c. 1500, is found in the manuscript Vat. Ross. Lat. 94.
Full-page miniature with borders fol. 158v
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Valle, Chiara
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Brown, Emily
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbold, Rebekah
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Schuele, Allyson
Contributor: Shartrand, Emily
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. 804, cat. no. 297.
Bowles, Edmund A. "A Checklist of Musical Instruments in Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscripts at the Walters Art Gallery." Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 32, no. 4 (1976): 719-726; pp. 722, 726.
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; pp. 390-391.
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. 494-500, cat. no. 292.
As-Vijvers, Anne Margreet. "Manuscript Production in a Carmelite Convent: The Case of Cornelia von Wulfschkercke." In Books of Hours Reconsidered, edited by Sandra Hindman and James H. Marrow, 279-296. London and Turnhout: Harvey Miller, 2013; 291, 293 fig. 13 (fol. 29v, as Master of Raphael de Mercatellis), 296 n. 50.
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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