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 ca. 1440-50, and likely destined for Tournai. The decoration of this manuscript includes two full-page miniatures, eleven extant smaller miniatures, one historiated initial, and one drollery. The illumination is in the style of the Master of Guillebert de Mets, although the work would have been completed during the closing stage of Mets' career. The Master of Guillebert de Mets' principal disciple was the Master of the Ghent Privileges, with whom he may have been in collaboration, as indicated by numerous comparisons (see Dogaer 1987, 33-37). This book begins with a full-page miniature depicting the Mass of St. Gregory, a folio that appears to have been relocated from its original placement just before fol. 180 to its current location as fol. 2. It should be noted that fol. 2 has experienced extensive paint loss and has since been retouched, although it is unknown by whom or at what time. The unpretentious illumination program could have been the reason for this switch, perhaps to make the manuscript more appealing for a potential buyer.
Written in textura formata; additions on fols. 162r-182r in same script but written by a more competent scribe using rounded letter forms giving cohesive appearance to page, lesser quality thereafter
artist: Circle of the Master of Guillebert de Mets
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbold, Rebekah
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
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. 792, cat. no. 221.
Panofsky, Erwin. Early Netherlandish Painting. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1953; pp. 61, 121, 123.
Bowles, E. A. "A Checklist of Musical Instruments in Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscripts at the Walters Art Gallery," Quarterly Journal of the Musical Library Association 32, no. 4 (1976): 719-726; pp. 721, 722.
Dogaer, Georges. Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th Centuries. Amsterdam: B.M. Israël, 1987; p. 36
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. 443.
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, 1989; pp. 175-181 (ref. under cat. no. 238, W.263).
Clark, G. T., "The William S. Galzier Collection," Twenty-first Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library. Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts Acquired, 1984-1986, Including the Collections of William S. Glazier & Curt F. Bühler. New York, 1989; p. 147.
Clark, Gregory T. Made in Flanders: The Master of the Ghent Privileges and Manuscript Painting in the Southern Netherlands in the Time of Philip the Good. Turnhout: Brepols, 2000; pp. 21-23, 55-56, 59, 66, 68, 103 (nn. 2, 17), 105-108, 129, 133, 135-136, 139, 144 (n. 23), 181, 183, 192-194, figs. 15-20, illus. 52-53.
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; pp. 92 (fig. 3), 93.
Clark, Gregory T. “Doornik aan de Schelde, Gand sur l’Escaut: Book Painters in Two Cities on One River in the Time of Philip the Good.” In Campin in Context: Peinture et société dans la vallée de l'Escaut à l'époque de Robert Campin, 1375-1445, edited by Ludovic Nys, Dominique Vanwijnsberghe, Xavier Fontaine, and Jacques Debergh, 255-264. Valenciennes: Presses universitaires de Valenciennes, 2007; p. 261.
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.
Tournai (?)
Ca. 1440-1450 CE
book
Non-original Binding
France, ca. 1900; brown morocco; resewn on five cords; spine rounded and backed; gilt title "HORAE" in second compartment, "GRUEL" in minute gilt capitals at tail; modern endbands in yellow and crimson silk; edges trimmed, regilt
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is French, Middle (ca.1400-1600).
Completed for Use of Rome, ca. 1440-50; illuminated in style associated with the Master of Guillebert de Mets and the Master of the Ghent Privileges, in Tournai
Numerous erasures, some entries partially reconstructable under ultraviolet light on fols. 1r, 2r, 12v, 16v, 93v: ". . . de boil[?]ville"; legible on fol. 182v "Cest katerin a graneville" ca. fifteenth century
Inscription added ca. nineteenth century; script imitating textura, "A nostre anne[?]"
Léon Gruel, Paris, ca. late nineteenth or early twentieth century
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel between 1895 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Tournai (?)
Ca. 1440-1450 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is French, Middle (ca.1400-1600).
Completed for Use of Rome, ca. 1440-50; illuminated in style associated with the Master of Guillebert de Mets and the Master of the Ghent Privileges, in Tournai
Numerous erasures, some entries partially reconstructable under ultraviolet light on fols. 1r, 2r, 12v, 16v, 93v: ". . . de boil[?]ville"; legible on fol. 182v "Cest katerin a graneville" ca. fifteenth century
Inscription added ca. nineteenth century; script imitating textura, "A nostre anne[?]"
Léon Gruel, Paris, ca. late nineteenth or early twentieth century
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel between 1895 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This Book of Hours was completed ca. 1440-50, and likely destined for Tournai. The decoration of this manuscript includes two full-page miniatures, eleven extant smaller miniatures, one historiated initial, and one drollery. The illumination is in the style of the Master of Guillebert de Mets, although the work would have been completed during the closing stage of Mets' career. The Master of Guillebert de Mets' principal disciple was the Master of the Ghent Privileges, with whom he may have been in collaboration, as indicated by numerous comparisons (see Dogaer 1987, 33-37). This book begins with a full-page miniature depicting the Mass of St. Gregory, a folio that appears to have been relocated from its original placement just before fol. 180 to its current location as fol. 2. It should be noted that fol. 2 has experienced extensive paint loss and has since been retouched, although it is unknown by whom or at what time. The unpretentious illumination program could have been the reason for this switch, perhaps to make the manuscript more appealing for a potential buyer.
Written in textura formata; additions on fols. 162r-182r in same script but written by a more competent scribe using rounded letter forms giving cohesive appearance to page, lesser quality thereafter
artist: Circle of the Master of Guillebert de Mets
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbold, Rebekah
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
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. 792, cat. no. 221.
Panofsky, Erwin. Early Netherlandish Painting. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1953; pp. 61, 121, 123.
Bowles, E. A. "A Checklist of Musical Instruments in Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscripts at the Walters Art Gallery," Quarterly Journal of the Musical Library Association 32, no. 4 (1976): 719-726; pp. 721, 722.
Dogaer, Georges. Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th Centuries. Amsterdam: B.M. Israël, 1987; p. 36
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. 443.
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, 1989; pp. 175-181 (ref. under cat. no. 238, W.263).
Clark, G. T., "The William S. Galzier Collection," Twenty-first Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library. Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts Acquired, 1984-1986, Including the Collections of William S. Glazier & Curt F. Bühler. New York, 1989; p. 147.
Clark, Gregory T. Made in Flanders: The Master of the Ghent Privileges and Manuscript Painting in the Southern Netherlands in the Time of Philip the Good. Turnhout: Brepols, 2000; pp. 21-23, 55-56, 59, 66, 68, 103 (nn. 2, 17), 105-108, 129, 133, 135-136, 139, 144 (n. 23), 181, 183, 192-194, figs. 15-20, illus. 52-53.
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; pp. 92 (fig. 3), 93.
Clark, Gregory T. “Doornik aan de Schelde, Gand sur l’Escaut: Book Painters in Two Cities on One River in the Time of Philip the Good.” In Campin in Context: Peinture et société dans la vallée de l'Escaut à l'époque de Robert Campin, 1375-1445, edited by Ludovic Nys, Dominique Vanwijnsberghe, Xavier Fontaine, and Jacques Debergh, 255-264. Valenciennes: Presses universitaires de Valenciennes, 2007; p. 261.
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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