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 prayer book was written in Dutch on fine parchment ca. 1470. The calendar is for the use of Utrecht, which helps localize its original ownership. It is notable for its thirteen full-page illuminations and seven small miniatures for the suffrages, by artists close to the Utrecht school. This manuscript has been grouped with many related works, including Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale 10761, Oxford, Bodleian Library Ms. Douce 30, Utrecht, Aartsbisshoppelijk Museum Ms. 20, the so-called Harberton-Wodhull Hours, private collection, The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek Ms. 131 G8, and Ms. 76 F31.
Cursive bookhand text added by second hand in sixteenth century
Principal cataloger: Marrow, James
Cataloger: Devine, Alex
Cataloger: Dutschke, Consuelo
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Valle, Chiara
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Boot, Christine
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Pizzinato, Riccardo
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Byvanck, Alexander W., and Godefridus J. Hoogewerff, La miniature hollandaise dans les manuscrits illustrés du XIVe au XVIe siècle aux Pays-Bas septentrionaux. vol. 3. The Hague, 1922-1926, p. 70
De Ricci, Seymour, and William J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York, 1935-1940, p. 797, no. 255.
Miner, Dorothy. Dutch Illuminated Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Connoisseur Yearbook, 1955, pp. 76-77, figs. XII-XIV (fols. 54v, 75v, 80v).
Snyder, James. "Geertgen Tot Sint Jans and the Haarlem School of Painting." Ph.D. Dissertation. Princeton University, 1958, p. 131, no. 61.
Delaissé, Leon M. J. A Century of Dutch Manuscript Illumination. Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1968, pp. 49-50, figs. 110-11 (fols. 54v, 80v).
Farquhar, James D. Creation and Imitation: The Work of a Fifteenth-century Illuminator. Nova University Studies in the Humanities I, 1976, p. 174, no. 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.
Utrecht, Netherlands
Third quarter of the 15th century (ca. 1470) CE
book
Non-original Binding
Rebound by Léon Gruel and Robert Engelmann, France, late nineteenth or early twentieth century, dark crimson velvet; fols. 1-6 and fols. 107-116 are affected by rust deposits made by two metal rivets from a lost kindle chain
The primary language in this manuscript is Dutch; Flemish. The secondary languages of this manuscript are German, Middle High (ca.1050-1500), Latin.
Made ca. 1470 for use in Utrecht, Netherlands; Utrecht saints in calendar
Gruel and Engelmann, Paris no. 96; bookplate on front pastedown
Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1905, bought from Gruel and Engelmann
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Utrecht, Netherlands
Third quarter of the 15th century (ca. 1470) CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Dutch; Flemish. The secondary languages of this manuscript are German, Middle High (ca.1050-1500), Latin.
Made ca. 1470 for use in Utrecht, Netherlands; Utrecht saints in calendar
Gruel and Engelmann, Paris no. 96; bookplate on front pastedown
Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1905, bought from Gruel and Engelmann
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This pocket-size prayer book was written in Dutch on fine parchment ca. 1470. The calendar is for the use of Utrecht, which helps localize its original ownership. It is notable for its thirteen full-page illuminations and seven small miniatures for the suffrages, by artists close to the Utrecht school. This manuscript has been grouped with many related works, including Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale 10761, Oxford, Bodleian Library Ms. Douce 30, Utrecht, Aartsbisshoppelijk Museum Ms. 20, the so-called Harberton-Wodhull Hours, private collection, The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek Ms. 131 G8, and Ms. 76 F31.
Cursive bookhand text added by second hand in sixteenth century
Principal cataloger: Marrow, James
Cataloger: Devine, Alex
Cataloger: Dutschke, Consuelo
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Valle, Chiara
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Boot, Christine
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Pizzinato, Riccardo
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Byvanck, Alexander W., and Godefridus J. Hoogewerff, La miniature hollandaise dans les manuscrits illustrés du XIVe au XVIe siècle aux Pays-Bas septentrionaux. vol. 3. The Hague, 1922-1926, p. 70
De Ricci, Seymour, and William J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York, 1935-1940, p. 797, no. 255.
Miner, Dorothy. Dutch Illuminated Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Connoisseur Yearbook, 1955, pp. 76-77, figs. XII-XIV (fols. 54v, 75v, 80v).
Snyder, James. "Geertgen Tot Sint Jans and the Haarlem School of Painting." Ph.D. Dissertation. Princeton University, 1958, p. 131, no. 61.
Delaissé, Leon M. J. A Century of Dutch Manuscript Illumination. Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1968, pp. 49-50, figs. 110-11 (fols. 54v, 80v).
Farquhar, James D. Creation and Imitation: The Work of a Fifteenth-century Illuminator. Nova University Studies in the Humanities I, 1976, p. 174, no. 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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