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 of ca. 1430-45 was illuminated by the followers of the Masters of the Gold Scrolls under North Netherlandish influence, suggesting an origin in Bruges. The manuscript, which is partially misbound, is decorated with thirteen extant miniatures (ten full-page, inserted), three historiated initials, and drolleries. In addition to a diverse collection of South Netherlandish, North French, and occasional English saints, this manuscript also features suffrages (namely SS. Margaret, Sebastian, and Anthony) that were added early. The manuscript has traces of different hands and artists throughout: in addition to mismatched borders, where the same design has been painted by different hands, there is also the unusual presence of an artist’s stamp visible in the form of a circle of thistles, which is found on the inside edge of the miniatures. An added frontispiece miniature featuring an armorial shield with an ostrich-plumed helmet crest seemingly attributes the manuscript to a younger son of the de Mailly branch of the Mametz family in Picardy (identified by Michel Pastoureau).
Textura
artist: Master of the Gold Scrolls and followers
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbold, Rebekah
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Wallace, Susan
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbold, Rebekah
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. 790, cat. no. 209.
Farquhar, James Douglas. "Identity in an Anonymous Age: Bruges Manuscript Illuminators and Their Signs," Viator II (1980): pp. 380, 382, fig. 10.
Dogaer, Georges. Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th Centuries. Amsterdam: B. M. Israël, 1987; p. 31.
Farquhar, James Douglas. "Manuscript Production and Evidence for Localizing and Dating Fifteenth-Century Books of Hours: Walters MS 239." Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 45 (1987): passim, figs. 1-17.
Gifford, E. M. "Pattern and Style in a Flemish Book of Hours: Walters MS 239." Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 45 (1987): passim.
Christie's. New York, December 7, 1988; ref. under lot 23.
Wieck, Roger S. Time Sanctified: The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life. Exhibition Catalogue, the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. New York: George Braiziller, 1988; pp. 30, 125, 211, cat. no. 87, fig. 110.
Smeyers, Maurits, and B. Cardon. "Utrecht and Bruges: South and North 'Boundless Relations' in the 15th Century." In Masters and Miniatures (1989); p. 101.
Smeyers, Maurits. "Pre-Eyckian Manuscripts: Mass Production and Workshop Practices I." In Le dessin sous-jacent dans la peinture, ed. R. van Schoute and H. Verougstraete-Marcq. Université Catholique de Louvain, Institut Supérieur d'Archéologie et d'Histoire de l'Art, Colloque IX (September 12-14, 1991), Document de travail 27; pp. 59-74.
Alexander, J. J. G. Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work. New Haven: 1992; p. 174.
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, 1992; p. 273 (ref. under cat. no. 157, W. 252).
Rogers, N. J. "The Miniature of St. John the Baptist in Gonville and Caius MS 241/127 and Its Context." Fifteenth Century Flemish Manuscripts. Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 10.2 (1992): p. 128.
Wieck, Roger S. “The Death Desired: Books of Hours and the Medieval Funeral.” In Death and Dying in the Middle Ages. Edited by Edelgard E. DuBruck and Barbara I. Gusick, 431-476. New York: Peter Lang, 1999; pp. 437 (as fig. 8), 446 (n. 9), 456 (fig. 8).
Van Bergen, Saskia. “The Production of Flemish Books of Hours for the English Market.” In Manuscripts in Transition: Recycling Manuscripts, Texts, and Images. Proceedings of the International Congres held in Brussels (5-9 November 2002). Edited by Brigitte Dekeyzer and Jan van der Stock, 271-284. Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters, 2005; p. 282.
Luyster, Amanda. “Two Books of Hours: The Gold Scrolls Group, England, and Internationalism in the Fifteenth Century.” In Catholic Collecting: Catholic Reflections (1538-1850). Exhibition Catalogue, College of the Holy Cross and the Cantor Art Gallery, February 22-April 13, 2006. Edited by Virginia C. Raguin, 89-101. Worcester, MA: Trustees of the College of the Holy Cross, 2006; p. 95.
Vanwijnsberghe, Dominique. "Le cycle d'enfance des petites de la vierge dans les livres d'heures des pays-bas méridionaux." In Manuscripten en miniaturen: Studies aangeboden aan Anne S. Korteweg bij haar afscheid van de Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Bijdragen tot de Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse Boekhandel. Nieuwe Reeks (8). Edited by Jos Biemans, Klaas van der Hoek, Kathryn M. Rudy, and Ed van der Vlist, 355-366. Zutphen: Walburg Pers, 2007; p. 362.
Yoshikawa, Naoë Kukita. Margery Kempe's Meditations: The Context of Medieval Devotional Literature, Liturgy, and Iconography. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007; p. 162 (n. 57).
Ubl, Matthias. "'The Office of the Dead': a New Interpretation of the Spes Nostra Painting." The Rijksmuseum Bulletin 61 (2013): pp. 323-337.
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.
Bruges (?)
Ca. 1430-1445 CE
book
Non-original Binding
Early nineteenth-century French red leather binding; gold tooling with foliate and floral designs on boards and spine; similar to binding signed Gaudreau, although no signature is present; gilded title on spine reads "Officium M. S."; page edges are gilded
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Created ca. 1430-45; illuminated by followers of the Masters of the Gold Scrolls, North Netherlandish influence, which suggests Bruges
De Mailly branch of the Mametz family of Picardy
Rev. Henry White, Litchfield, second half of the nineteenth century; added entry by White
Sold in Rev. White's sale London, Sotheby's, April 21, 1902, to D. Robson, London bookseller
Sotheby's, London, resold on May 6, 1909, to Robson
Gruel and Engelmann, Paris, between 1909 and 1931, their bookplate inscribed with "No=957" on front pastedown, sale slip formerly affixed to back flyleaf i
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Bruges (?)
Ca. 1430-1445 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Created ca. 1430-45; illuminated by followers of the Masters of the Gold Scrolls, North Netherlandish influence, which suggests Bruges
De Mailly branch of the Mametz family of Picardy
Rev. Henry White, Litchfield, second half of the nineteenth century; added entry by White
Sold in Rev. White's sale London, Sotheby's, April 21, 1902, to D. Robson, London bookseller
Sotheby's, London, resold on May 6, 1909, to Robson
Gruel and Engelmann, Paris, between 1909 and 1931, their bookplate inscribed with "No=957" on front pastedown, sale slip formerly affixed to back flyleaf i
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This Book of Hours of ca. 1430-45 was illuminated by the followers of the Masters of the Gold Scrolls under North Netherlandish influence, suggesting an origin in Bruges. The manuscript, which is partially misbound, is decorated with thirteen extant miniatures (ten full-page, inserted), three historiated initials, and drolleries. In addition to a diverse collection of South Netherlandish, North French, and occasional English saints, this manuscript also features suffrages (namely SS. Margaret, Sebastian, and Anthony) that were added early. The manuscript has traces of different hands and artists throughout: in addition to mismatched borders, where the same design has been painted by different hands, there is also the unusual presence of an artist’s stamp visible in the form of a circle of thistles, which is found on the inside edge of the miniatures. An added frontispiece miniature featuring an armorial shield with an ostrich-plumed helmet crest seemingly attributes the manuscript to a younger son of the de Mailly branch of the Mametz family in Picardy (identified by Michel Pastoureau).
Textura
artist: Master of the Gold Scrolls and followers
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbold, Rebekah
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Wallace, Susan
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbold, Rebekah
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. 790, cat. no. 209.
Farquhar, James Douglas. "Identity in an Anonymous Age: Bruges Manuscript Illuminators and Their Signs," Viator II (1980): pp. 380, 382, fig. 10.
Dogaer, Georges. Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th Centuries. Amsterdam: B. M. Israël, 1987; p. 31.
Farquhar, James Douglas. "Manuscript Production and Evidence for Localizing and Dating Fifteenth-Century Books of Hours: Walters MS 239." Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 45 (1987): passim, figs. 1-17.
Gifford, E. M. "Pattern and Style in a Flemish Book of Hours: Walters MS 239." Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 45 (1987): passim.
Christie's. New York, December 7, 1988; ref. under lot 23.
Wieck, Roger S. Time Sanctified: The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life. Exhibition Catalogue, the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. New York: George Braiziller, 1988; pp. 30, 125, 211, cat. no. 87, fig. 110.
Smeyers, Maurits, and B. Cardon. "Utrecht and Bruges: South and North 'Boundless Relations' in the 15th Century." In Masters and Miniatures (1989); p. 101.
Smeyers, Maurits. "Pre-Eyckian Manuscripts: Mass Production and Workshop Practices I." In Le dessin sous-jacent dans la peinture, ed. R. van Schoute and H. Verougstraete-Marcq. Université Catholique de Louvain, Institut Supérieur d'Archéologie et d'Histoire de l'Art, Colloque IX (September 12-14, 1991), Document de travail 27; pp. 59-74.
Alexander, J. J. G. Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work. New Haven: 1992; p. 174.
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, 1992; p. 273 (ref. under cat. no. 157, W. 252).
Rogers, N. J. "The Miniature of St. John the Baptist in Gonville and Caius MS 241/127 and Its Context." Fifteenth Century Flemish Manuscripts. Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 10.2 (1992): p. 128.
Wieck, Roger S. “The Death Desired: Books of Hours and the Medieval Funeral.” In Death and Dying in the Middle Ages. Edited by Edelgard E. DuBruck and Barbara I. Gusick, 431-476. New York: Peter Lang, 1999; pp. 437 (as fig. 8), 446 (n. 9), 456 (fig. 8).
Van Bergen, Saskia. “The Production of Flemish Books of Hours for the English Market.” In Manuscripts in Transition: Recycling Manuscripts, Texts, and Images. Proceedings of the International Congres held in Brussels (5-9 November 2002). Edited by Brigitte Dekeyzer and Jan van der Stock, 271-284. Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters, 2005; p. 282.
Luyster, Amanda. “Two Books of Hours: The Gold Scrolls Group, England, and Internationalism in the Fifteenth Century.” In Catholic Collecting: Catholic Reflections (1538-1850). Exhibition Catalogue, College of the Holy Cross and the Cantor Art Gallery, February 22-April 13, 2006. Edited by Virginia C. Raguin, 89-101. Worcester, MA: Trustees of the College of the Holy Cross, 2006; p. 95.
Vanwijnsberghe, Dominique. "Le cycle d'enfance des petites de la vierge dans les livres d'heures des pays-bas méridionaux." In Manuscripten en miniaturen: Studies aangeboden aan Anne S. Korteweg bij haar afscheid van de Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Bijdragen tot de Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse Boekhandel. Nieuwe Reeks (8). Edited by Jos Biemans, Klaas van der Hoek, Kathryn M. Rudy, and Ed van der Vlist, 355-366. Zutphen: Walburg Pers, 2007; p. 362.
Yoshikawa, Naoë Kukita. Margery Kempe's Meditations: The Context of Medieval Devotional Literature, Liturgy, and Iconography. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007; p. 162 (n. 57).
Ubl, Matthias. "'The Office of the Dead': a New Interpretation of the Spes Nostra Painting." The Rijksmuseum Bulletin 61 (2013): pp. 323-337.
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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