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.
Illuminated in the style of the Master of the Black Prayerbook, this manuscript was created ca. 1460-1470. It contains features in the calendar that indicate a destination of Bruges, and aspects of the litany point to the city of Liège. The manuscript is currently misbound, but an attempt has been made to reconstruct the original order of the quires. The full-page miniatures and historiated initials are painted with a mixture of grisaille and colored techniques. There may be a reference to the patron and their family taking communion on fol. 47v.
Written in a different hand at a later, yet still early, date
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Shartrand, Emily
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Wallace, Susan
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Schuele, Allyson
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
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. 794, cat. no. 234.
Miner, Dorothy. Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Museum and the Baltimore Museum of Art, 1949; cat. no. 132.
Delaissé, Leon M. J. Miniature flamande: La mécénat de Philippe le Bon. Exhibition Catalogue. Brussels: Palais de Beaux-Arts, 1959.
Diringer, David. The Illuminated Book: Its History and Production. Revised Edition. New York: Faber and Faber, 1967; pp. 449-450.
Bowles, Edmund A. "A Checklist of Musical Instruments in Fifteenth Century Illuminated Manuscripts at the Walters Art Gallery." Music Library Association 32 (1976): 719-726; p. 723.
Jenni, Ulrike, and Dagmar Thoss. Das Schwarze Gebetbuch (Gebetbuch des Galeazzo Maria Sforza): Codex 1856 der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek in Wien. Kommentar zur Faksimileausgabe. Frankfurt: Insel Verlag, 1982; pp. 65, 70, 101-102.
Mavarelli, Cristina G., with Maria Jole Minicucci and Maria Grazia Ciardi Duprè dal Poggetto. I Libre d'Ore della Biblioteca Riccardiana. Vol 1: I Libri d'Ore francesi e fiamminghi. Rome: Istituto poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, 1986; p. 329.
Dogaer, Georges. Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th Century. Amsterdam: B.M. Israël, 1987; pp. 103, 121, 136.
Owens, Margaret B. "Musical Subjects in the Illumination of Books of Hours from Fifteenth-Century France and Flanders." Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1987; p. 398.
Pächt, Otto and Dagmar Thoss. Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, Französische Schule, II. Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Phil.-Hist. Klasse, Denkschriften 160. 2 vols. Vienna: Verlag de Österreichische, 1990; vol. 1, pp. 25, 34, figs. 5, 9, 10.
Crossley-Holland, Nicole. A Fifteenth-Century Franciscan French Office: Translation and Commentary of the Hours of the Passion. Medieval Studies 4. Lewiston/Queenston: E. Mellen Press, 1991; pp. 143, 144.
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. 312-317, cat. no. 263.
Kren, Thomas. "Master of the Dresden Prayerbook and Ghent Associates." In Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe. Edited by Thomas Kren and Scott McKendrick, 180-181. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Trust, 2003; p. 181 (ref. under cat. no. 36).
Morrison, Elizabeth. "Master of the David Scenes in the Grimani Breviary and Another Illuminator." In Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe. Edited by Thomas Kren and Scott McKendrick, 390-391. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum Publishers, 2003; p. 391 (ref. under cat. no. 116).
Vanwijnsberghe, Dominique. "Le cycle d'enfance des petites de la vierge dans les livres d'heures des pays-bas méridionaux." In Manuscripten en miniaturen: Studies aangeboden aan Anne S. Korteweg bij haar afscheid van de Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Bijdragen tot de Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse Boekhandel. Nieuwe Reeks (8). Edited by Jos Biemans, Klaas van der Hoek, Kathryn M. Rudy, and Ed van der Vlist, 355-366. Zutphen: Walburg Pers, 2007; p. 365.
Hans-Collas, Illona, and Hanno Wijsman. Le Livre d’heures et de prières d’Agnès de Bourgogne, duchesse de Bourbon. Art de l'enluminure 29 (2009): 20-47; p. 44.
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. 1460-70 CE
book
Non-original Binding
Bound in France ca. 1900 in dark green velvet, and leather fore-edge tabs added at that time
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Created ca. 1460-70, calendar indicates Bruges as destination, and litany has features common to Liège; fol. 47v may have portrait of patron and family
Effaced monogram on top-right of fol. 1r visible under UV light; lower margin of same page has inscription in brown ink "Ioannes Reitmakers/anno 1663"
Léon Gruel, Paris, late nineteenth-early twentieth century; possibly rebound by him; bookplate on upper board inside
Henry Walters, Baltimore, likely purchased from Gruel between 1900 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Bruges (?)
Ca. 1460-70 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Created ca. 1460-70, calendar indicates Bruges as destination, and litany has features common to Liège; fol. 47v may have portrait of patron and family
Effaced monogram on top-right of fol. 1r visible under UV light; lower margin of same page has inscription in brown ink "Ioannes Reitmakers/anno 1663"
Léon Gruel, Paris, late nineteenth-early twentieth century; possibly rebound by him; bookplate on upper board inside
Henry Walters, Baltimore, likely purchased from Gruel between 1900 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Illuminated in the style of the Master of the Black Prayerbook, this manuscript was created ca. 1460-1470. It contains features in the calendar that indicate a destination of Bruges, and aspects of the litany point to the city of Liège. The manuscript is currently misbound, but an attempt has been made to reconstruct the original order of the quires. The full-page miniatures and historiated initials are painted with a mixture of grisaille and colored techniques. There may be a reference to the patron and their family taking communion on fol. 47v.
Written in a different hand at a later, yet still early, date
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Shartrand, Emily
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Wallace, Susan
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Schuele, Allyson
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
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. 794, cat. no. 234.
Miner, Dorothy. Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Museum and the Baltimore Museum of Art, 1949; cat. no. 132.
Delaissé, Leon M. J. Miniature flamande: La mécénat de Philippe le Bon. Exhibition Catalogue. Brussels: Palais de Beaux-Arts, 1959.
Diringer, David. The Illuminated Book: Its History and Production. Revised Edition. New York: Faber and Faber, 1967; pp. 449-450.
Bowles, Edmund A. "A Checklist of Musical Instruments in Fifteenth Century Illuminated Manuscripts at the Walters Art Gallery." Music Library Association 32 (1976): 719-726; p. 723.
Jenni, Ulrike, and Dagmar Thoss. Das Schwarze Gebetbuch (Gebetbuch des Galeazzo Maria Sforza): Codex 1856 der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek in Wien. Kommentar zur Faksimileausgabe. Frankfurt: Insel Verlag, 1982; pp. 65, 70, 101-102.
Mavarelli, Cristina G., with Maria Jole Minicucci and Maria Grazia Ciardi Duprè dal Poggetto. I Libre d'Ore della Biblioteca Riccardiana. Vol 1: I Libri d'Ore francesi e fiamminghi. Rome: Istituto poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, 1986; p. 329.
Dogaer, Georges. Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th Century. Amsterdam: B.M. Israël, 1987; pp. 103, 121, 136.
Owens, Margaret B. "Musical Subjects in the Illumination of Books of Hours from Fifteenth-Century France and Flanders." Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1987; p. 398.
Pächt, Otto and Dagmar Thoss. Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, Französische Schule, II. Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Phil.-Hist. Klasse, Denkschriften 160. 2 vols. Vienna: Verlag de Österreichische, 1990; vol. 1, pp. 25, 34, figs. 5, 9, 10.
Crossley-Holland, Nicole. A Fifteenth-Century Franciscan French Office: Translation and Commentary of the Hours of the Passion. Medieval Studies 4. Lewiston/Queenston: E. Mellen Press, 1991; pp. 143, 144.
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. 312-317, cat. no. 263.
Kren, Thomas. "Master of the Dresden Prayerbook and Ghent Associates." In Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe. Edited by Thomas Kren and Scott McKendrick, 180-181. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Trust, 2003; p. 181 (ref. under cat. no. 36).
Morrison, Elizabeth. "Master of the David Scenes in the Grimani Breviary and Another Illuminator." In Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe. Edited by Thomas Kren and Scott McKendrick, 390-391. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum Publishers, 2003; p. 391 (ref. under cat. no. 116).
Vanwijnsberghe, Dominique. "Le cycle d'enfance des petites de la vierge dans les livres d'heures des pays-bas méridionaux." In Manuscripten en miniaturen: Studies aangeboden aan Anne S. Korteweg bij haar afscheid van de Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Bijdragen tot de Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse Boekhandel. Nieuwe Reeks (8). Edited by Jos Biemans, Klaas van der Hoek, Kathryn M. Rudy, and Ed van der Vlist, 355-366. Zutphen: Walburg Pers, 2007; p. 365.
Hans-Collas, Illona, and Hanno Wijsman. Le Livre d’heures et de prières d’Agnès de Bourgogne, duchesse de Bourbon. Art de l'enluminure 29 (2009): 20-47; p. 44.
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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