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 completed for the Use of Rouen in the last quarter of the fifteenth century. The original female owner is depicted in a donor portrait kneeling at the right of the Pietà on the last illuminated page of the book (fol. 114r). Marked prominence is given to this female worshiper as her scale exceeds that of the Virgin as well as SS. John the Evangelist and Mary Magdalene. The Pentecost miniature on fol. 74r exemplifies the interest during that period in replacing the traditional central perspective with a diagonally conceived composition. This off-center orientation highlighting St. Peter rather than the Virgin was a popular theme in contemporary Books of Hours from Rouen.
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Han, Yuna
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Han, Yuna
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
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. 800, cat. no. 278
Bowles, Edmund A. "A Checklist of Musical Instruments in Fifteenth Century Illuminated Manuscripts at the Walters Art Gallery." Music Library Association 32 (1976): 719-726; pp. 721, 722 and 726
Stones, A. and J. Steyvaert. Medieval Illumination, Glass and Sculpture in Minnesota Collection, exh. cat. Minneapolis: University Gallery, University of Minnesota, 1978, p. 92, figs. 69 and 70 (fols. 32 and 74)
Thomson, James C. Music through the Renaissance. Dubuque, Iowa: W.C. Brown Co., 1984, p. 231, fig. 7.9 (f. 56r, border scene)
Hindman, Sandra L. and Michael Heinlen. Important Western Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts and Illuminated Leaves. Akron, Ohio: B.P. Ferrini, 1987, p. 155
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. 417, fig. 26 (fol. 77r)
Sinclair, Keith Val, and Jean Sonet. Prières en ancien français: Additions et corrections aux articles 1-2374 du Répertoire de Sonet, Supplément. Townsville: James Cook University of North Queensland, 1987, pp. 43 and 72
Burin, E. "Manuscript Illumination in Lyons c. 1450-1530." Ph.D. diss, Cambridge University, 1989, p. 29
Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 2. France, 1420-1540. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1989; pp. 316-321, cat. no. 167
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.
Rouen, France
Last quarter of the 15th century CE
book
Non-original Binding
Rebound in Italy in the last quarter of the nineteenth century; dark blue morocco; sewn on four recessed cords; inscription on spine in gold read: "UFFIZIO / FRANCESE / MINIATO"
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is French, Middle (ca.1400-1600).
Created for the use of Rouen ca. 1480-90; illuminated in Rouen under influence of Jean Bourdichon of Tours; first owner female, depicted on fol. 114r
Owned by someone named Maucourt at Montigny in 1725; recorded on fol. 124v: "MAVCOVRT / 1725 / amontigny"
Leo S. Olschki, bookseller, Florence, late nineteenth or early twentieth century; an 'x' and '566' inscribed on front flyleaf i, v; note below by Olschki concerning decoration; date penciled over partially erased earlier notation
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Olschki before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Rouen, France
Last quarter of the 15th century CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is French, Middle (ca.1400-1600).
Created for the use of Rouen ca. 1480-90; illuminated in Rouen under influence of Jean Bourdichon of Tours; first owner female, depicted on fol. 114r
Owned by someone named Maucourt at Montigny in 1725; recorded on fol. 124v: "MAVCOVRT / 1725 / amontigny"
Leo S. Olschki, bookseller, Florence, late nineteenth or early twentieth century; an 'x' and '566' inscribed on front flyleaf i, v; note below by Olschki concerning decoration; date penciled over partially erased earlier notation
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Olschki before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This Book of Hours was completed for the Use of Rouen in the last quarter of the fifteenth century. The original female owner is depicted in a donor portrait kneeling at the right of the Pietà on the last illuminated page of the book (fol. 114r). Marked prominence is given to this female worshiper as her scale exceeds that of the Virgin as well as SS. John the Evangelist and Mary Magdalene. The Pentecost miniature on fol. 74r exemplifies the interest during that period in replacing the traditional central perspective with a diagonally conceived composition. This off-center orientation highlighting St. Peter rather than the Virgin was a popular theme in contemporary Books of Hours from Rouen.
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Han, Yuna
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Han, Yuna
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
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. 800, cat. no. 278
Bowles, Edmund A. "A Checklist of Musical Instruments in Fifteenth Century Illuminated Manuscripts at the Walters Art Gallery." Music Library Association 32 (1976): 719-726; pp. 721, 722 and 726
Stones, A. and J. Steyvaert. Medieval Illumination, Glass and Sculpture in Minnesota Collection, exh. cat. Minneapolis: University Gallery, University of Minnesota, 1978, p. 92, figs. 69 and 70 (fols. 32 and 74)
Thomson, James C. Music through the Renaissance. Dubuque, Iowa: W.C. Brown Co., 1984, p. 231, fig. 7.9 (f. 56r, border scene)
Hindman, Sandra L. and Michael Heinlen. Important Western Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts and Illuminated Leaves. Akron, Ohio: B.P. Ferrini, 1987, p. 155
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. 417, fig. 26 (fol. 77r)
Sinclair, Keith Val, and Jean Sonet. Prières en ancien français: Additions et corrections aux articles 1-2374 du Répertoire de Sonet, Supplément. Townsville: James Cook University of North Queensland, 1987, pp. 43 and 72
Burin, E. "Manuscript Illumination in Lyons c. 1450-1530." Ph.D. diss, Cambridge University, 1989, p. 29
Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 2. France, 1420-1540. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1989; pp. 316-321, cat. no. 167
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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