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.
Completed for use of Cambrai, ca. 1450-60, this sizable Book of Hours is comprised of 265 folios, with two full-page miniatures (inserted) and thirteen historiated initials. Perhaps the focus on prayer rather than decoration was due to the presumed first owner, who was established in Mons and was associated with a Benedictine nunnery (dedicated to Sainte Waudry). Some Franciscan sympathies are indicated in the litany (fol. 147v), evinced by a citation of Bernardinus of Siena, Francis, and Clara.
Littera batarda
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbold, Rebekah
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Brown, Emily
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Shartrand, Emily
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
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, 1989; pp. 234-240, cat. no. 247; figs. 475, 476, 589, pl. XXXIVa
Avril, François. "Jean le Tavernier: Un nouveau livre d’heures." Revue de l’Art 126 (1999): 9-22; p. 20 (n. 7).
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.
Hainaut
Ca. 1450-60 CE
book
Original Binding
Bound in Belgium, most likely contemporary; brown leather over oak boards, wide shallow exterior bevels; original sewing present on single tawed straps; panels with four vertical bands framed by quadruple fillets, some bands with walking deer and foliage-wrapped poles; outer bands feature square panels tooled with fleur-de-lis in barbed quatrefoil; spine has been rebacked with no liner overlays under pastedowns; gilt edges, painted with flowers of red and white on green stems, probably dating sixteenth/seventeenth century; evidence of side-pin and strap fastenings can be found on upper and lower covers; modern leather repairs present at anchorage points of straps and surrounding area
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is French, Middle (ca.1400-1600).
Created ca. 1450-60 for use in diocese of Cambrai, probably Mons; comparable to North and South Netherlandish illumination workmanship
First owner, female
Petrus Philippus Jarinart, fifteenth century, his name signed after inscription in ink on back endleaf: "A moy premier commenchement"
Gerardus Casteillon, his name inscribed twice on fore-edge
London, Sotheby's, May 23, 1889, lot 78, sold to Seymour for £65
Jacques Rosenthal, Munich bookseller, a notation written in pencil on front pastedown
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased between 1902 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Hainaut
Ca. 1450-60 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is French, Middle (ca.1400-1600).
Created ca. 1450-60 for use in diocese of Cambrai, probably Mons; comparable to North and South Netherlandish illumination workmanship
First owner, female
Petrus Philippus Jarinart, fifteenth century, his name signed after inscription in ink on back endleaf: "A moy premier commenchement"
Gerardus Casteillon, his name inscribed twice on fore-edge
London, Sotheby's, May 23, 1889, lot 78, sold to Seymour for £65
Jacques Rosenthal, Munich bookseller, a notation written in pencil on front pastedown
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased between 1902 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Completed for use of Cambrai, ca. 1450-60, this sizable Book of Hours is comprised of 265 folios, with two full-page miniatures (inserted) and thirteen historiated initials. Perhaps the focus on prayer rather than decoration was due to the presumed first owner, who was established in Mons and was associated with a Benedictine nunnery (dedicated to Sainte Waudry). Some Franciscan sympathies are indicated in the litany (fol. 147v), evinced by a citation of Bernardinus of Siena, Francis, and Clara.
Littera batarda
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbold, Rebekah
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Brown, Emily
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Shartrand, Emily
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
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, 1989; pp. 234-240, cat. no. 247; figs. 475, 476, 589, pl. XXXIVa
Avril, François. "Jean le Tavernier: Un nouveau livre d’heures." Revue de l’Art 126 (1999): 9-22; p. 20 (n. 7).
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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