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 richly illuminated Book of Hours was produced ca. 1460 in Bruges by an artist in the circle of Willem Vrelant, whose work was influenced by the Masters of the Gold Scrolls and Master of the Beady Eyes. Allusions to the order of Franciscans and Augustinians in the litany and calendar, and the prominent depiction of female saints in the All Saints miniature (fol. 293r) indicate that the book was originally created for a female patron, possibly connected to one of these orders. Much of the existing scholarship on the book's twenty-two full-page miniatures has focused on the depictions of angelic musicians, such as those found on fol. 278v. Also of interest is the presence of multiple pilgrimage badge impressions on the final folio (fol. 295v).
Littera batarda
artist: Circle of Willem Vrelant
artist: Masters of the Gold Scrolls
artist: Master of the Beady Eyes
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Mergen, Christopher
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Mergen, Christopher
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
De Ricci, S., 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. 797, cat. no. 260.
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. 265-270, cat. no. 252.
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. Wisconsin: Music Library Association, 1976. Vol. 32/4, p. 719-726
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. 395, Fig. 11 (f. 278v)
Bousmanne, B. "Prolégomènes à la constitution et à l'interprétation d'un corpus des manuscrits attribués au groupe Vrelant: Un aspect de l'enluminure dans le Pays-Bas méridionaux au XVe siècle," (PhD diss., Université Catholique de Louvain, 1994), p. 24, 214-216
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 CE
book
Non-original Binding
Seventeenth-century Belgian binding in brown calf skin on wooden boards, with repaired and re-backed mitered corners; four straps at four sets of deep cuts provide the structure for sewing; upper and lower board marked with gilt oval stamp on inlay of calfskin (possibly concealing previous stamp?); inscription "IHS" surmounted by Crucifixion within both ovals; naturally rounded spine with gilt tooled crosses; endbands in pink and blue-green thread; fastened with cast silver clasp, chiseled in the shape of a love knot at the center fore-edge; hinged on lower board; hinge and clasp attached with nails to boards by shield-shaped plates
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Produced ca. 1460 in Bruges by a follower of Willem Vrelant, with illuminations influenced by Master of the Beady Eyes and the Masters of the Golden Scrolls; abundance of female saints in All Saints miniature suggests original ownership by woman with possible connection to Franciscan or Augustinian orders
Rebound in seventeenth century; heart motif suggests Augustinian affiliation
Modern pencil marking "MR577" on front flyleaf i, r
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased between 1895 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Bruges
Ca. 1460 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Produced ca. 1460 in Bruges by a follower of Willem Vrelant, with illuminations influenced by Master of the Beady Eyes and the Masters of the Golden Scrolls; abundance of female saints in All Saints miniature suggests original ownership by woman with possible connection to Franciscan or Augustinian orders
Rebound in seventeenth century; heart motif suggests Augustinian affiliation
Modern pencil marking "MR577" on front flyleaf i, r
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased between 1895 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This richly illuminated Book of Hours was produced ca. 1460 in Bruges by an artist in the circle of Willem Vrelant, whose work was influenced by the Masters of the Gold Scrolls and Master of the Beady Eyes. Allusions to the order of Franciscans and Augustinians in the litany and calendar, and the prominent depiction of female saints in the All Saints miniature (fol. 293r) indicate that the book was originally created for a female patron, possibly connected to one of these orders. Much of the existing scholarship on the book's twenty-two full-page miniatures has focused on the depictions of angelic musicians, such as those found on fol. 278v. Also of interest is the presence of multiple pilgrimage badge impressions on the final folio (fol. 295v).
Littera batarda
artist: Circle of Willem Vrelant
artist: Masters of the Gold Scrolls
artist: Master of the Beady Eyes
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Mergen, Christopher
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Mergen, Christopher
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
De Ricci, S., 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. 797, cat. no. 260.
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. 265-270, cat. no. 252.
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. Wisconsin: Music Library Association, 1976. Vol. 32/4, p. 719-726
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. 395, Fig. 11 (f. 278v)
Bousmanne, B. "Prolégomènes à la constitution et à l'interprétation d'un corpus des manuscrits attribués au groupe Vrelant: Un aspect de l'enluminure dans le Pays-Bas méridionaux au XVe siècle," (PhD diss., Université Catholique de Louvain, 1994), p. 24, 214-216
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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