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 late twelfth- or early thirteenth-century Psalter was made for a female supplicant, and is of Premonstratensian use. Created and used in Rhineland, Germany, it remained there until the French Revolution, after which it was eventually acquired by the English book collector Sir Thomas Phillipps. The Psalter is liturgical, and therefore has eight divisions for the liturgical week, as well as the usual tripartite divisions. Each of these major psalms is marked by large lively inhabited or foliate initials. Early added prayers on the first and last blank pages, as well as occasional marginal prayers and notes in a variety of hands, attest to the manuscript's use through time.
Gothic bookhand
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Davis, Lisa Fagin
Contributor: Dutschke, Consuelo
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Hamburger, Jeffrey
Contributor: Klemm, Elizabeth
Contributor: Mednyanszky, Orsolya
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Sciacca, Christine
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Ess, Leander van. Sammlung und Verzeichniss handscriftlicher Bücher aus dem VIII. IX. X. XI. XII. XIII. XIV. etc. Jahrhundert: bestehend aus 171 Bänden auf Pergament 19 theils auf Pergament theils auf Papier und 190 auf Papier; nebst einer Sammlung von alten Holzschnitten und kleinen Gemälden mit Vergoldung die leider! aus alten Pergament-Handschriften ausgeschitten sind welche besitzt Leander van Ess Theolog. Doktor Vorrin Professor und Pfarrer in Marburg. Darmstadt, 1823, p. 14, no. 56.
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. 769, cat. no. 76.
Phillipps, Sir Thomas. The Phillipps Manuscripts: Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum in bibliotheca D. Thomae Phillipps, bt. London: Holland Press, 1968, p. 5, cat. no. 441.
Oliver, Judith. Gothic Manuscript Illumination in the Diocese of Liege (ca. 1250-ca. 1330). 2 vols. Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters, 1988, p. 137.
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.
Rhineland, Germany
Late 12th or early 13th century CE
book
Non-original Binding
Sixteenth-century German beech boards, originally covered in brown leather; re-covered in green velvet in the nineteenth century by Léon Gruel, Paris; clasp and catch plates are sixteenth century, poorly refitted
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Made for Premonstratensian use
Owned by Rhenish abbeys before French Revolution
Leander van Ess of Darmstadt, acquired from Rhenish abbeys after French Revolution
Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1824, by purchase, no. 441; Ex-libris fol. 1r: rampant lion stamp and inscription "Sir T.P./Middle Hill 441"
Phillipps's sale, London
Léon Gruel collection, no. 924
Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired from Gruel before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Rhineland, Germany
Late 12th or early 13th century CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Made for Premonstratensian use
Owned by Rhenish abbeys before French Revolution
Leander van Ess of Darmstadt, acquired from Rhenish abbeys after French Revolution
Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1824, by purchase, no. 441; Ex-libris fol. 1r: rampant lion stamp and inscription "Sir T.P./Middle Hill 441"
Phillipps's sale, London
Léon Gruel collection, no. 924
Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired from Gruel before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This late twelfth- or early thirteenth-century Psalter was made for a female supplicant, and is of Premonstratensian use. Created and used in Rhineland, Germany, it remained there until the French Revolution, after which it was eventually acquired by the English book collector Sir Thomas Phillipps. The Psalter is liturgical, and therefore has eight divisions for the liturgical week, as well as the usual tripartite divisions. Each of these major psalms is marked by large lively inhabited or foliate initials. Early added prayers on the first and last blank pages, as well as occasional marginal prayers and notes in a variety of hands, attest to the manuscript's use through time.
Gothic bookhand
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Davis, Lisa Fagin
Contributor: Dutschke, Consuelo
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Hamburger, Jeffrey
Contributor: Klemm, Elizabeth
Contributor: Mednyanszky, Orsolya
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Sciacca, Christine
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Ess, Leander van. Sammlung und Verzeichniss handscriftlicher Bücher aus dem VIII. IX. X. XI. XII. XIII. XIV. etc. Jahrhundert: bestehend aus 171 Bänden auf Pergament 19 theils auf Pergament theils auf Papier und 190 auf Papier; nebst einer Sammlung von alten Holzschnitten und kleinen Gemälden mit Vergoldung die leider! aus alten Pergament-Handschriften ausgeschitten sind welche besitzt Leander van Ess Theolog. Doktor Vorrin Professor und Pfarrer in Marburg. Darmstadt, 1823, p. 14, no. 56.
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. 769, cat. no. 76.
Phillipps, Sir Thomas. The Phillipps Manuscripts: Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum in bibliotheca D. Thomae Phillipps, bt. London: Holland Press, 1968, p. 5, cat. no. 441.
Oliver, Judith. Gothic Manuscript Illumination in the Diocese of Liege (ca. 1250-ca. 1330). 2 vols. Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters, 1988, p. 137.
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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