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 made in Bruges in the middle of the fifteenth century. The place of origin is suggested by the saints in the Calendar, such as SS. Amandus and Vedast. The manuscript is highly illuminated, containing a full-page miniature at the beginning of each of the Hours. Style and compositions are comparable with Flemish manuscripts known as the "Golden Scrolls" group; some books of this group are preserved at the University of Chicago (Ms 344), and the Bibliothèque Royale of Brussels (Ms 9798). The manuscript is notable for its unusual iconography, such as the Annunciation with God the Father in the Hours of the Virgin, and a Last Judgment image in which Christ as Judge is flanked by John and the Virgin showing her breast.
Textura
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Cooper, Madeline
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbold, Rebekah
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Schuele, Allyson
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
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. 792, no. 225.
Panofsky, Erwin. Early Netherlandish Painting. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1953; p. 122.
Kessler, Herbert L. French and Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts from Chicago Collections. Exhibition Catalogue. Chicago: Newberry Library, 1969; ref. under cat. nos. 3, 4.
Meiss, Millard. Painting in Florence and Siena after the Black Death: The Arts, Religion, and Society in the Mid-Fourtheenth Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978; p. 143.
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): 44-88; p. 56.
Owens, M. B. "Musical Subjects in the Illumination of Books of Hours from Fifteenth-Century France and Flanders." 2 vols. Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1987; p. 429.
Wieck, Roger Seymour. Time Sanctified: The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life. Exhibition Catalogue. Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery. NY: George Braziller, 1988; pp. 39, 97, 212, cat. no. 90, fig. 64.
Arnould, Alain, and Jean Michel Massing. Splendors of Flanders. Exhibition Catalogue. Fitzwilliam Museum. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993; p. 124, ref. under cat. no. 37.
Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 3, Belgium, 1250-1530. Part 1. Baltimore, London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1997; pp. 163-169, cat. no. 236.
Fliegel, Stephen. The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999; p. 47, cat. no. 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.
Bruges
1440-50
book
Non-original Binding
French late-nineteenth early-twentieth century crimson velvet over wooden boards; sewn on five recessed cords; at least two previous sewings; rounded spine; re-gilt edges; leather fore-edge tabs at illuminated folios
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Made in Bruges, ca. 1440-50, for Use of Rome; Bruges feasts in calendar for SS. Amandus and Vedast
Léon Gruel, Paris, bookbinder and bookseller, late-nineteenth or early-twentieth century; Gruel bookplate on front pastedown inscribed "No. 85"
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel between 1895 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Bruges
1440-50
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Made in Bruges, ca. 1440-50, for Use of Rome; Bruges feasts in calendar for SS. Amandus and Vedast
Léon Gruel, Paris, bookbinder and bookseller, late-nineteenth or early-twentieth century; Gruel bookplate on front pastedown inscribed "No. 85"
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel between 1895 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This Book of Hours was made in Bruges in the middle of the fifteenth century. The place of origin is suggested by the saints in the Calendar, such as SS. Amandus and Vedast. The manuscript is highly illuminated, containing a full-page miniature at the beginning of each of the Hours. Style and compositions are comparable with Flemish manuscripts known as the "Golden Scrolls" group; some books of this group are preserved at the University of Chicago (Ms 344), and the Bibliothèque Royale of Brussels (Ms 9798). The manuscript is notable for its unusual iconography, such as the Annunciation with God the Father in the Hours of the Virgin, and a Last Judgment image in which Christ as Judge is flanked by John and the Virgin showing her breast.
Textura
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Cooper, Madeline
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbold, Rebekah
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Schuele, Allyson
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
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. 792, no. 225.
Panofsky, Erwin. Early Netherlandish Painting. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1953; p. 122.
Kessler, Herbert L. French and Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts from Chicago Collections. Exhibition Catalogue. Chicago: Newberry Library, 1969; ref. under cat. nos. 3, 4.
Meiss, Millard. Painting in Florence and Siena after the Black Death: The Arts, Religion, and Society in the Mid-Fourtheenth Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978; p. 143.
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): 44-88; p. 56.
Owens, M. B. "Musical Subjects in the Illumination of Books of Hours from Fifteenth-Century France and Flanders." 2 vols. Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1987; p. 429.
Wieck, Roger Seymour. Time Sanctified: The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life. Exhibition Catalogue. Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery. NY: George Braziller, 1988; pp. 39, 97, 212, cat. no. 90, fig. 64.
Arnould, Alain, and Jean Michel Massing. Splendors of Flanders. Exhibition Catalogue. Fitzwilliam Museum. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993; p. 124, ref. under cat. no. 37.
Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 3, Belgium, 1250-1530. Part 1. Baltimore, London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1997; pp. 163-169, cat. no. 236.
Fliegel, Stephen. The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999; p. 47, cat. no. 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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