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.
The medieval alphabet is illuminated in two different styles. Without any accompanying text, the original purpose of the book remains unclear, but scholars have suggested that it was a sample or model book for manuscript illuminators, or that it was intended as a gift. The book was rebound in the eighteenth century, and in the same century extensive notes, which have since been erased, were made alongside the initials.
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Vinson, Aubrey
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Han, Yuna
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Vinson, Aubrey
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Loftie, W. J. Lessons in the Art of Illuminating, vol. 1. London, after 1874, p.4-7.
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.828, no. 423.
Fruit and Flowers, Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art (1961), no. 4, illus. p.3 (fol. 8r).
Oliver, J. "Medieval Alphabet Soup: Reconstruction of a Mosan Psalter-Hours in Philadelphia and Oxford and the Cult of St. Catherine," Gesta 24/2 (1985): 138.
Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 2, Part 2. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992, pp. 643-644, app. 1.
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.
Paris, France (?)
Ca. 16th century CE
book
Non-original Binding
Rebound in France, eighteenth century; pink brocade with floral and zig-zag striped patterning over boards, sewn on five bands; gilt edges; antique white paper pastedowns and first/last flyleaves, decorated with alternating rows of gold six-pointed asterisks and dots, turned green at edges, paper with matching pattern pasted over bottom 1.5-2cm on front and back boards and flyleaves, which conceal an inscription in capital letters; paper tag printed "83" at bottom of spine; green silk ribbon marker
No linguistic content; Not applicable
Created in the sixteenth century, likely in Paris
Rebound in eighteenth century France, truncated watermark on fol. 33 with date '1743'
Obliterated note in cursive hand on fol. 1r, likely eighteenth century
Note in dark brown ink, partly effaced "J... 609." on flyleaf iv, likely eighteenth century
Léon Gruel collection, Paris, late nineteenth or early twentieth century; note in pencil "... 1183" on flyleaf iv; Gruel and Engelmann bookplate inscribed 'No. 1183'
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel between 1895 and 1900
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Paris, France (?)
Ca. 16th century CE
book
No linguistic content; Not applicable
Created in the sixteenth century, likely in Paris
Rebound in eighteenth century France, truncated watermark on fol. 33 with date '1743'
Obliterated note in cursive hand on fol. 1r, likely eighteenth century
Note in dark brown ink, partly effaced "J... 609." on flyleaf iv, likely eighteenth century
Léon Gruel collection, Paris, late nineteenth or early twentieth century; note in pencil "... 1183" on flyleaf iv; Gruel and Engelmann bookplate inscribed 'No. 1183'
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel between 1895 and 1900
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
The medieval alphabet is illuminated in two different styles. Without any accompanying text, the original purpose of the book remains unclear, but scholars have suggested that it was a sample or model book for manuscript illuminators, or that it was intended as a gift. The book was rebound in the eighteenth century, and in the same century extensive notes, which have since been erased, were made alongside the initials.
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Vinson, Aubrey
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Han, Yuna
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Vinson, Aubrey
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Loftie, W. J. Lessons in the Art of Illuminating, vol. 1. London, after 1874, p.4-7.
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.828, no. 423.
Fruit and Flowers, Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art (1961), no. 4, illus. p.3 (fol. 8r).
Oliver, J. "Medieval Alphabet Soup: Reconstruction of a Mosan Psalter-Hours in Philadelphia and Oxford and the Cult of St. Catherine," Gesta 24/2 (1985): 138.
Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 2, Part 2. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992, pp. 643-644, app. 1.
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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