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 saints in the litany helps localize its production. Although small in scale, it is notable for its abundance of illuminations, nearly thirty extant, by artists working in the style of the prolific mid-fifteenth-century Flemish illuminator Willem Vrelant. Three artists worked on this book. The best painted the full-page miniature of David Penitent on fol. 85v; an able artist painted the other two full-page miniatures; the historiated initials and minor decoration are routine. 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.177, W.179, and W.180.
Compressed textura
artist: Circle of Willem Vrelant
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Dennis, Nathan S
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
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. 797, cat. no. 254.
Bowles, E. A. "A Checklist of Musical Instruments in Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscripts at the Walters Art Gallery." Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association, 32/4 (1976): 719-726; p. 723.
Owens, M. B. Musical Subjects in the Illumination of Books of Hours from Fifteenth-Century France and Flanders. PhD diss., University of Chicago, 1987, p. 394.
Randall, Lilian M.C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 3, Belgium 1250-1530. Baltimore and London: Walters Art Gallery, 1997, Part 1, pp. 278-282, cat. no. 255.
Bousmanne, Bernard. "Item a Guillaume Wyelant aussi enlumineur:" Willem Vrelant: un aspect de l'enluminure dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux sous le mécénat des ducs de Bourgogne Philippe le Bon et Charles le Téméraire. Bibliothèque royale de Belgique; Turnhout: Brepols, 1997, p. 229.
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
Rebound in France, ca. 1820; black straight-grain goatskin, blind-tooled foliate, rope, and geometric patterns; gold-tooled framing fillets on outer boards, and Greek key designs on turn-ins; marbelized pastedowns; spine inscribed in gold amid three wreaths: HEURES/SUR/VELIN; pink and white silk endbands and pink ribbon marker; housed within a black telescopic case inscribed HEURES in gold
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; many South Netherlandish, and some English, saints in the suffrages and litany
De Traysy, seventeenth-century ex libris
Lauora, or Lauorci, eighteenth-century
Henry Walters, Baltimore, between 1895 and 1931, by purchase
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; many South Netherlandish, and some English, saints in the suffrages and litany
De Traysy, seventeenth-century ex libris
Lauora, or Lauorci, eighteenth-century
Henry Walters, Baltimore, between 1895 and 1931, by purchase
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 saints in the litany helps localize its production. Although small in scale, it is notable for its abundance of illuminations, nearly thirty extant, by artists working in the style of the prolific mid-fifteenth-century Flemish illuminator Willem Vrelant. Three artists worked on this book. The best painted the full-page miniature of David Penitent on fol. 85v; an able artist painted the other two full-page miniatures; the historiated initials and minor decoration are routine. 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.177, W.179, and W.180.
Compressed textura
artist: Circle of Willem Vrelant
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Dennis, Nathan S
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
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. 797, cat. no. 254.
Bowles, E. A. "A Checklist of Musical Instruments in Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscripts at the Walters Art Gallery." Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association, 32/4 (1976): 719-726; p. 723.
Owens, M. B. Musical Subjects in the Illumination of Books of Hours from Fifteenth-Century France and Flanders. PhD diss., University of Chicago, 1987, p. 394.
Randall, Lilian M.C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 3, Belgium 1250-1530. Baltimore and London: Walters Art Gallery, 1997, Part 1, pp. 278-282, cat. no. 255.
Bousmanne, Bernard. "Item a Guillaume Wyelant aussi enlumineur:" Willem Vrelant: un aspect de l'enluminure dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux sous le mécénat des ducs de Bourgogne Philippe le Bon et Charles le Téméraire. Bibliothèque royale de Belgique; Turnhout: Brepols, 1997, p. 229.
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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