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 manuscript is volume IV in a set of five from the collection "Recueil des chroniques et anchiennes istories de la Grant Bretaigne," written by Phillip the Good's counselor and chamberlain Jean de Wavrin. It chronicles the history of England from the early years of the reign of Richard II in 1377 to the demise of Henry IV, his successor, between 1400 and 1413. This volume, produced in Flanders between 1470 and 1480, was part of a set of which volumes II, III and V were recorded in the inventory of the library of William III of Orange in 1686, and was later rebound during the seventeenth or eighteenth century. Six three-quarter-page miniatures open the text of each book and depict events documented therein (with the exception of that of Book 1, portraying Richard II's coronation, which occurs prior to the period detailed in that book). The manuscript's margins are wide and relatively pristine throughout the textblock, but show significant signs of use on illuminated folios, indicating that this manuscript was primarily used for display and not as a historical text. Although few volumes of the Chroniques remain, this manuscript is particularly rare in that it is one of the two surviving exemplars of the text of volume IV, the other being part of the complete set in the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BN fr. 74-85). Volumes II, III, and V of the set to which this volume originally belonged are now in the collection of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Den Haag, KB : 133 A 7).
Written in littera batarda
artist: Style of the Ghent Associates
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: Schuele, Allyson
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Diringer, David. The Illuminated Book: Its History and Production. London: Faber and Faber, 1967; p. 458
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. 851, cat. no. 527.
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 Gallery, 1949; cat. no. 135, pl. XLIV. (fol. 261)
Miner, Dorothy. "The Illustrated Book." Bulletin of the Walters Art Gallery 120, no. 4 (1951); n.p. illus. (fol. 261)
Leinwand, Gerald. The Pageant of World History. Boston: Pearson Prentice Hall, 1962; (fol. 11)
Lecat, Jean-Philippe. Le siècle de la Toison d'Or. Paris: Éditions Flammarion, 1986; p. 81 (fol. 147)
Burin, Elizabeth. "Tales in the Telling: Secular Narrative Illustration in the Medieval Book." Bulletin of the Walters Art Gallery 44/4 (1991); illus. 4 (fol. 283).
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. 387-392, cat. no. 276.
Sutton, Anne, and Livia Visser-Fuchs. Richard III's Books: Ideals and Reality in the Life and Library of a Medieval Prince. Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 1997; p. 179.
Nevins, Teresa. “Les Chroniques d’Angleterre. ‘The Chronicles of England.’” In Medieval Mastery: Book Illumination from Charlemagne to Charles the Bold (800-1475). Edited by William Noel and Lee Preedy. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2002; pp. 316-317.
McKendrick, Scot. “Master of the London Wavrin.” In Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe. Edited by Thomas Kren and Scot McKendrick, 278-80. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003; p. 280 (ref. under cat. no. 75).
Visser-Fuchs, Livia. “‘Pour recréer les espertiz’: De handschriften en lezerksing van ‘Recueil des chroniques d’Engleterre’ van Jean de Wavrin.” Handelingen van de Koninklijke kring voor oudheidkunde, letteren en kunst van Mechelen 105 (2001): 59-80; p. 69.
Adamczuk, Aradiusz. “Księga - dzieło sztuki, księga - dzieło kultury: dwie wystawy średniowiecznych iluminowanych kodeksów rękopiśmiennych w Belgii.” Roczniki humanistyczne 52/4 (2004): 539-48; p. 544.
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.
Flanders
Ca. 1470-80 CE
book
Non-original Binding
French, seventeenth- or eighteenth-century binding; brown calf, brindled; re-sewn on six chords in the recesses of six original pairs of deep cuts; book box replaces case made of oak with lock and key recorded in 1912 Sotheby's sale catalog
The primary language in this manuscript is French, Middle (ca.1400-1600).
Produced in Flanders in the late 1470s
Visible brown ink inscription
Ex-libris
Rebound ca. 1700/1800 in France
Robert Blathwayt of Dyrham Park, Chippenham, until 1912
Sabin, London bookseller, purchased at Sotheby's, London, November 20, 1912, lot 125
Leo S. Olschki, Florentine bookseller, inventory no. "35396" on front pastedown in pencil
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased between 1912 and 1914
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Flanders
Ca. 1470-80 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is French, Middle (ca.1400-1600).
Produced in Flanders in the late 1470s
Visible brown ink inscription
Ex-libris
Rebound ca. 1700/1800 in France
Robert Blathwayt of Dyrham Park, Chippenham, until 1912
Sabin, London bookseller, purchased at Sotheby's, London, November 20, 1912, lot 125
Leo S. Olschki, Florentine bookseller, inventory no. "35396" on front pastedown in pencil
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased between 1912 and 1914
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This manuscript is volume IV in a set of five from the collection "Recueil des chroniques et anchiennes istories de la Grant Bretaigne," written by Phillip the Good's counselor and chamberlain Jean de Wavrin. It chronicles the history of England from the early years of the reign of Richard II in 1377 to the demise of Henry IV, his successor, between 1400 and 1413. This volume, produced in Flanders between 1470 and 1480, was part of a set of which volumes II, III and V were recorded in the inventory of the library of William III of Orange in 1686, and was later rebound during the seventeenth or eighteenth century. Six three-quarter-page miniatures open the text of each book and depict events documented therein (with the exception of that of Book 1, portraying Richard II's coronation, which occurs prior to the period detailed in that book). The manuscript's margins are wide and relatively pristine throughout the textblock, but show significant signs of use on illuminated folios, indicating that this manuscript was primarily used for display and not as a historical text. Although few volumes of the Chroniques remain, this manuscript is particularly rare in that it is one of the two surviving exemplars of the text of volume IV, the other being part of the complete set in the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BN fr. 74-85). Volumes II, III, and V of the set to which this volume originally belonged are now in the collection of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Den Haag, KB : 133 A 7).
Written in littera batarda
artist: Style of the Ghent Associates
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: Schuele, Allyson
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Diringer, David. The Illuminated Book: Its History and Production. London: Faber and Faber, 1967; p. 458
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. 851, cat. no. 527.
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 Gallery, 1949; cat. no. 135, pl. XLIV. (fol. 261)
Miner, Dorothy. "The Illustrated Book." Bulletin of the Walters Art Gallery 120, no. 4 (1951); n.p. illus. (fol. 261)
Leinwand, Gerald. The Pageant of World History. Boston: Pearson Prentice Hall, 1962; (fol. 11)
Lecat, Jean-Philippe. Le siècle de la Toison d'Or. Paris: Éditions Flammarion, 1986; p. 81 (fol. 147)
Burin, Elizabeth. "Tales in the Telling: Secular Narrative Illustration in the Medieval Book." Bulletin of the Walters Art Gallery 44/4 (1991); illus. 4 (fol. 283).
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. 387-392, cat. no. 276.
Sutton, Anne, and Livia Visser-Fuchs. Richard III's Books: Ideals and Reality in the Life and Library of a Medieval Prince. Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 1997; p. 179.
Nevins, Teresa. “Les Chroniques d’Angleterre. ‘The Chronicles of England.’” In Medieval Mastery: Book Illumination from Charlemagne to Charles the Bold (800-1475). Edited by William Noel and Lee Preedy. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2002; pp. 316-317.
McKendrick, Scot. “Master of the London Wavrin.” In Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe. Edited by Thomas Kren and Scot McKendrick, 278-80. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003; p. 280 (ref. under cat. no. 75).
Visser-Fuchs, Livia. “‘Pour recréer les espertiz’: De handschriften en lezerksing van ‘Recueil des chroniques d’Engleterre’ van Jean de Wavrin.” Handelingen van de Koninklijke kring voor oudheidkunde, letteren en kunst van Mechelen 105 (2001): 59-80; p. 69.
Adamczuk, Aradiusz. “Księga - dzieło sztuki, księga - dzieło kultury: dwie wystawy średniowiecznych iluminowanych kodeksów rękopiśmiennych w Belgii.” Roczniki humanistyczne 52/4 (2004): 539-48; p. 544.
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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