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 Book of Hours was created ca. 1440 in Hainaut for a female patron with Cistercian connections, which is suggested by long devotional sequences focused on the Passion of Christ and the Virgin, including indulgences, a litany with Cistercian affiliation, and various references to a female suppliant. Two devotional texts written by various scribes in Latin and French were added to the front and back of the book ca. 1450-1600. At the end of the front devotional text, on fol. 6v, there are sewing holes and strong impressions of a variety of pilgrim badges. The manuscript contains eight full-page miniatures, five of which were at some point protected by pieces of gauze that have been removed and are now in the WAM file.
Different scribe on fols. 7r-8r
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Ransom, Allison
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Wallace, Susan
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Mergen, Christopher
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
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. 789, cat. no. 200.
Sinclair, K. V., French Devotional Texts of the Middle Ages: A Bibliographic Manuscript Guide, Second Supplement. New York: 1988; no. 5830.
Randall, Lilian M. C., "From Citeaux Onwards: Cistercian-Related Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery," in Studies in Cistercian Art and Architecture, Vol. 3. Edited by M. Lillich. Cistercian Studies Series 89. Kalamazoo, MI: 1989; p. 133, no. 22.
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. 139-47, cat. no. 233.
Vanwijnsberghe, Dominique. 'Ung Bon Ouvrier Nommé Marquet Cassin': Peinture et Enluminure en Hainaut avant Simon Marmion. Brussels: Institut Royal du Patrimoine Artistique, 2013; p. 80, figs. 82, 84, 88, 91, 92 (fols. 20v-21r, 28v, 22v, 24v, 21v, 23v, and 26v).
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. 1440 CE
book
Non-original Binding
Rebound in England or France in the sixteenth century; dark brown calf skin over wooden boards with top and bottom left corners beveled, top and bottom right corners missing; boards decorated with panel produced by roll; naturally rounded and backed spine; pink and green silk endbands
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is French, Middle (ca.1400-1600).
Created for a woman with Cistercian affiliation, ca. 1440
Ownership entry on back pastedown, ca. 15th century, "Cet prieres quandt vos auez/ tou dist lesses moy la/ [name crossed out]" (provenance)
Second ownership entry on back pastedown, 1583, "Gehoort Suster
Possibly Leo S. Olschki, Florence, modern pencil notations and ticket with blue crayon "815" on front pastedown
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased between 1900 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Hainaut (?)
Ca. 1440 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is French, Middle (ca.1400-1600).
Created for a woman with Cistercian affiliation, ca. 1440
Ownership entry on back pastedown, ca. 15th century, "Cet prieres quandt vos auez/ tou dist lesses moy la/ [name crossed out]" (provenance)
Second ownership entry on back pastedown, 1583, "Gehoort Suster
Possibly Leo S. Olschki, Florence, modern pencil notations and ticket with blue crayon "815" on front pastedown
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased between 1900 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This Book of Hours was created ca. 1440 in Hainaut for a female patron with Cistercian connections, which is suggested by long devotional sequences focused on the Passion of Christ and the Virgin, including indulgences, a litany with Cistercian affiliation, and various references to a female suppliant. Two devotional texts written by various scribes in Latin and French were added to the front and back of the book ca. 1450-1600. At the end of the front devotional text, on fol. 6v, there are sewing holes and strong impressions of a variety of pilgrim badges. The manuscript contains eight full-page miniatures, five of which were at some point protected by pieces of gauze that have been removed and are now in the WAM file.
Different scribe on fols. 7r-8r
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Ransom, Allison
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Wallace, Susan
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Mergen, Christopher
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
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. 789, cat. no. 200.
Sinclair, K. V., French Devotional Texts of the Middle Ages: A Bibliographic Manuscript Guide, Second Supplement. New York: 1988; no. 5830.
Randall, Lilian M. C., "From Citeaux Onwards: Cistercian-Related Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery," in Studies in Cistercian Art and Architecture, Vol. 3. Edited by M. Lillich. Cistercian Studies Series 89. Kalamazoo, MI: 1989; p. 133, no. 22.
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. 139-47, cat. no. 233.
Vanwijnsberghe, Dominique. 'Ung Bon Ouvrier Nommé Marquet Cassin': Peinture et Enluminure en Hainaut avant Simon Marmion. Brussels: Institut Royal du Patrimoine Artistique, 2013; p. 80, figs. 82, 84, 88, 91, 92 (fols. 20v-21r, 28v, 22v, 24v, 21v, 23v, and 26v).
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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