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 Book of Hours was created ca.1460-70 in the Bruges region by artists influenced by the famous illuminator Willem Vrelant. Its fifteen surviving miniatures have been heavily repainted, as have many of the borders, and Lillian Randall has suggested this campaign of refurbishment was likely requested by a later owner who may be depicted in the fully redone Last Judgment image (fol. 124v). The limited number of figures, simplification of drapery folds, and avoidance of painting hands where possible show the streamlining used by workshops in this period, which were generating large numbers of similar books (see, for example, also W.177, W.180, W.181, and W.774).
Italianate gotica rotunda
artist: Orbit of Willem Vrelant
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
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. 812, cat. no. 344.
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; p. 720.
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; p. 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. 295-298, cat. no. 259.
Kren, Thomas. "Anonymous: Book of Hours, Use of Rome." In Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe. Edited by Thomas Kren and Scot McKendrick, 486-487. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003; p. 487, ref. under cat. no. 161.
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. 1460-1470 CE
book
Non-original Binding
Partially rebound by Walters conservation staff ca. 1996 in brown goatskin leather, sewing new endbands but retaining the nineteenth-century sewing of the textblock, as well as reattaching the pastedowns and facing endleaves, which were hand-decorated with a pattern in yellow and dark blue; page edges gilt; binding at time of purchase by Walters (also imaged here) was early nineteenth-century dark green velvet, probably Italian; resewn on three recessed cords; white and yellow silk endbands; inscription on spine in gold read: "OFFICIUM M.S. IN MEMB"
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Created in Bruges ca. 1460-70 by workshop influenced by Willem Vrelant
Edouard Rahir, Paris bookseller, firm of Damascène Morgand, ca. 1900, his inventory number "26005" on front flyleaf i, v
"Bt of Morgand [Paris] July 1901 for 2000 [francs]" inscribed on front flyleaf i, v
Peter Marié, New York; lot number "561" of his sale in 1903 inscribed on front flyleaf i, v
George Richmond, New York bookseller, 1903
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased between 1903 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Bruges
Ca. 1460-1470 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Created in Bruges ca. 1460-70 by workshop influenced by Willem Vrelant
Edouard Rahir, Paris bookseller, firm of Damascène Morgand, ca. 1900, his inventory number "26005" on front flyleaf i, v
"Bt of Morgand [Paris] July 1901 for 2000 [francs]" inscribed on front flyleaf i, v
Peter Marié, New York; lot number "561" of his sale in 1903 inscribed on front flyleaf i, v
George Richmond, New York bookseller, 1903
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased between 1903 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This Book of Hours was created ca.1460-70 in the Bruges region by artists influenced by the famous illuminator Willem Vrelant. Its fifteen surviving miniatures have been heavily repainted, as have many of the borders, and Lillian Randall has suggested this campaign of refurbishment was likely requested by a later owner who may be depicted in the fully redone Last Judgment image (fol. 124v). The limited number of figures, simplification of drapery folds, and avoidance of painting hands where possible show the streamlining used by workshops in this period, which were generating large numbers of similar books (see, for example, also W.177, W.180, W.181, and W.774).
Italianate gotica rotunda
artist: Orbit of Willem Vrelant
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
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. 812, cat. no. 344.
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; p. 720.
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; p. 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. 295-298, cat. no. 259.
Kren, Thomas. "Anonymous: Book of Hours, Use of Rome." In Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe. Edited by Thomas Kren and Scot McKendrick, 486-487. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003; p. 487, ref. under cat. no. 161.
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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