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 Flemish Book of Hours was produced between 1470 and 1480, most likely in either western Flanders or northern France, and probably for an ecclesiastical patron. The significant number of saints in the calendar affiliated with the diocese of Thérouanne, and more broadly northwestern Flanders, may indicate the region of production. The twenty-three full-page polychrome miniatures and six historiated initials show an influence of Simon Marmion, who was active at Valenciennes in the second half of the fifteenth century, and possibly Colin of Amiens, who was active in Paris and Tournai during the same period.
Littera batarda
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Dennis, Nathan S
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Schuele, Allyson
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
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. 798, cat. no. 263.
Miner, D. The History of Bookbinding, 525-1950 A.D, exhibition catalogue. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1957; p. 53, cat. no. 124.
Bowles, E. A. "A Checklist of Musical Instruments in Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscripts at the Walters Art Gallery." Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 32, no. 4 (1976): 719-726; p. 723.
Owens, M. B. "Musical Subjects in the Illumination of Books of Hours from Fifteenth-Century France and Flanders." Ph.D. diss. University of Chicago, 1987; p. 403.
Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 3, Belgium, 1250-1530. Baltimore, London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1997, Part 2; pp. 371-381, cat. no. 274.
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.
West Flanders (?)
Ca. 1470-80 CE
book
Non-original Binding
Rebound with green velvet ca. 1900 in either Belgium or France; gilded-silver clasps, catch-plates, and corner-guards decorated with floral motifs and birds on the upper and lower boards and date to 1637 (Arabic inscription for the Amsterdam hallmark on the inner clasp plates); fore-edge, head, and tail are gilded and impressed with arabesques and crosses
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Made in Flanders or possibly northern France ca. 1470-80 for Use of Rome; Office of the Dead is for Use of Sarum; original owner may have been a cleric affiliated with the diocese of Thérouanne, based on local saints listed in the calendar, or Ghent and Malines, based on the suffrage to St. Godelieva
Gold lion in two initials on fols. 85v and 143r may be emblem of early owner
Coat of arms of the de Sains-Ailly family from Picardy appears on fol. 129r and was added to the manuscript early
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased between 1895 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
West Flanders (?)
Ca. 1470-80 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Made in Flanders or possibly northern France ca. 1470-80 for Use of Rome; Office of the Dead is for Use of Sarum; original owner may have been a cleric affiliated with the diocese of Thérouanne, based on local saints listed in the calendar, or Ghent and Malines, based on the suffrage to St. Godelieva
Gold lion in two initials on fols. 85v and 143r may be emblem of early owner
Coat of arms of the de Sains-Ailly family from Picardy appears on fol. 129r and was added to the manuscript early
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased between 1895 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This Flemish Book of Hours was produced between 1470 and 1480, most likely in either western Flanders or northern France, and probably for an ecclesiastical patron. The significant number of saints in the calendar affiliated with the diocese of Thérouanne, and more broadly northwestern Flanders, may indicate the region of production. The twenty-three full-page polychrome miniatures and six historiated initials show an influence of Simon Marmion, who was active at Valenciennes in the second half of the fifteenth century, and possibly Colin of Amiens, who was active in Paris and Tournai during the same period.
Littera batarda
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Dennis, Nathan S
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Schuele, Allyson
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
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. 798, cat. no. 263.
Miner, D. The History of Bookbinding, 525-1950 A.D, exhibition catalogue. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1957; p. 53, cat. no. 124.
Bowles, E. A. "A Checklist of Musical Instruments in Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscripts at the Walters Art Gallery." Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 32, no. 4 (1976): 719-726; p. 723.
Owens, M. B. "Musical Subjects in the Illumination of Books of Hours from Fifteenth-Century France and Flanders." Ph.D. diss. University of Chicago, 1987; p. 403.
Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 3, Belgium, 1250-1530. Baltimore, London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1997, Part 2; pp. 371-381, cat. no. 274.
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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