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 illuminated Book of Hours was produced in the second quarter of the fifteenth century. It is written in the Netherlandish translation of Geert Grote. Although lacking in full-page miniatures, the manuscript contains eighteen historiated initials by the Masters of Zweder van Culemborg with ornamental initials and decoration throughout.
Written in Gothic bookhand (textura quadrata)
artist: Masters of Zweder van Culemborg
Principal cataloger: Marrow, James
Cataloger: Devine, Alex
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Dutschke, Consuelo
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
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. 791, no. 216.
Byvanck, A. W. "Kroniek der Noord-Nederlandsche Miniaturen. 3." Oudheidkundig Jaarboek, 4th series, 9 (1940): 36, fig. 17 (fol. 122).
Sterling, Charles [Charles Jacques, pseud.]. La peinture française: les peintres du moyen âge. Paris: P. Tisné, 1941, p. 78, no. 10.
Byvanck, A. W. De middeleeuwsche boekillustratie in de Noordelijke Nederlanden. Antwerp: De Sikkel, 1943, pp. 27-28, figs. 19-22.
Walters Art Gallery. Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1949, no. 122.
Boström, K. "Un livre d'heures d'Utrecht au Musée National à Stockholm." Nordisk Tidskrift för Bok- och Biblioteksväsen 38 (1951): p. 162, no. 1.
Panofsky, Erwin. Early Netherlandish Painting, Its Origins and Character. Vol. 1. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1953, p. 102, note 4.
Miner, Dorothy. Dutch Illuminated Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Connoisseur Yearbook (1955): 66-77, fig. 11.
Diringer, David. The Illuminated Book: Its History and Production. 2nd ed. New York: Praeger, 1967, p. 448, pl. 7-31b.
Gorissen, Friedrich. Das Stundenbuch der Katharina von Kleve. Berlin: G. Mann, 1973.
Boot, C. "Medieval Netherlandic Manuscripts in Libraries in the State of Maryland." Archief- en bibliotheekwezen in België 56 (1985): 257-294.
Wieck, Roger S. Time Sanctified: The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life. New York: George Braziller, 1988, pp. 68-69, 220, fig. 50 (fol. 71r).
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
Second quarter of the 15th century CE
book
Non-original Binding
Bound by Gruel and Engelmann, late nineteenth / early twentieth century; red-brown velvet over millboard, sewn on five recessed cords; all edges gilt
The primary language in this manuscript is Dutch; Flemish.
Made for anonymous patrons in the second quarter of the fifteenth century
Melchior Parsoens
Gruel and Engelmann, collection no. 94, Paris
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel and Engelmann, Paris, June 9, 1903
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Utrecht
Second quarter of the 15th century CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Dutch; Flemish.
Made for anonymous patrons in the second quarter of the fifteenth century
Melchior Parsoens
Gruel and Engelmann, collection no. 94, Paris
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel and Engelmann, Paris, June 9, 1903
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
This illuminated Book of Hours was produced in the second quarter of the fifteenth century. It is written in the Netherlandish translation of Geert Grote. Although lacking in full-page miniatures, the manuscript contains eighteen historiated initials by the Masters of Zweder van Culemborg with ornamental initials and decoration throughout.
Written in Gothic bookhand (textura quadrata)
artist: Masters of Zweder van Culemborg
Principal cataloger: Marrow, James
Cataloger: Devine, Alex
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Dutschke, Consuelo
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
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. 791, no. 216.
Byvanck, A. W. "Kroniek der Noord-Nederlandsche Miniaturen. 3." Oudheidkundig Jaarboek, 4th series, 9 (1940): 36, fig. 17 (fol. 122).
Sterling, Charles [Charles Jacques, pseud.]. La peinture française: les peintres du moyen âge. Paris: P. Tisné, 1941, p. 78, no. 10.
Byvanck, A. W. De middeleeuwsche boekillustratie in de Noordelijke Nederlanden. Antwerp: De Sikkel, 1943, pp. 27-28, figs. 19-22.
Walters Art Gallery. Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1949, no. 122.
Boström, K. "Un livre d'heures d'Utrecht au Musée National à Stockholm." Nordisk Tidskrift för Bok- och Biblioteksväsen 38 (1951): p. 162, no. 1.
Panofsky, Erwin. Early Netherlandish Painting, Its Origins and Character. Vol. 1. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1953, p. 102, note 4.
Miner, Dorothy. Dutch Illuminated Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Connoisseur Yearbook (1955): 66-77, fig. 11.
Diringer, David. The Illuminated Book: Its History and Production. 2nd ed. New York: Praeger, 1967, p. 448, pl. 7-31b.
Gorissen, Friedrich. Das Stundenbuch der Katharina von Kleve. Berlin: G. Mann, 1973.
Boot, C. "Medieval Netherlandic Manuscripts in Libraries in the State of Maryland." Archief- en bibliotheekwezen in België 56 (1985): 257-294.
Wieck, Roger S. Time Sanctified: The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life. New York: George Braziller, 1988, pp. 68-69, 220, fig. 50 (fol. 71r).
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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