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 Use of Reims ca. 1450-1475 in northeastern France. The book was first owned by Collette, who is portrayed on fol. 76r with the Virgin and Child. An inscription from 1559 on the back pastedown records later ownership by female owner G. Marlot, as well as by her aunt, née Labourgue, wife of the merchant Jean Bourguet, followed by G. Marlot's daughter, Martine Marlot. There is a large amount of unusual and specifically female content in the book, including a heightened amount of prayers to the Virgin, virgins listed in the calendar and litany, as well as the unusual inclusion of the Hours of St. Catherine. The manuscript also contains charming marginalia, most famously a garden party scene in which couples play music, and even games such as backgammon, together (fol. 16r).
Fol. 155r-v added by same scribe who added fols. 1r-3v
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Ransom, Allison
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Wallace, Susan
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Ransom, Allison
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. 793, cat. no. 227.
Bowles, E. A., "A Checklist of Musical Instruments in Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscripts at the Walters Art Gallery." Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 32, no. 4 (1976): 719-726; p. 723, pp. 721-725.
Bowles, E.A. Musikleben im 15. Jahrhundert. Musikgeschichte in Bildern, Leipzig: Deutscher Verlag für Musik, 1977, vol. 3; p. 180
Randall, Lilian M. C. "Jewels as Ornaments in Books." The Walters Art Gallery Bulletin 32, no. 3 (December 1979): 7-8, fig. 1 (fol. 16r).
Bowles, E.A., La pratique musicale au moyen âge / Musical Performance in the Late Middle Ages. Geneva: Minkoff et Lattès, 1983; p. 126, pl. 93 (fol. 16r)
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. 447.
Wieck, Roger S. Time Sanctified. The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life. New York: George Braziller, 1988; pp. 118, 188-189, cat. no. 41, fig. 98 (fol. 112).
Withee, Diana. "Making Music in Medieval Manuscripts." The Walters Art Gallery 41, no 10 (December 1988): p. 5, fig. at bottom (detail fol. 16r)
Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 1: France, 1240-1540. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1989; pp. 139-144, cat. no. 129
Burin, Elizabeth. "Medieval Games of Love and War." The Walters Monthly Bulletin 48, no. 10 (December 1995):2-3; p. 3, fig. 2 (fol. 16r)
Sponsler, Claire. Drama and Resistance: Bodies, Goods, and Theatricality in Late Medieval England. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997; pp. 191-192 (n. 51).
Avril, François. Très riches heures de Champagne: L'Enluminure en Champagne à la fin du moyen âge. Paris: Hazan, 2007; pp. 66, 68, 149, figs. 58, 61, and 129 (fols. 38v, 16r, and 11r).
Newman, Paul B. Daily Life in the Middle Ages. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. 2001; p. 105.
Bagnoli, Martina. The Medieval World. Baltimore and London: Walters Art Museum and D. Giles, Ltd., 2011; p. 152, fig. 136.
Reinburg, Virginia. French Books of Hours: Making an Archive of Prayer, c. 1400-1600. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012; pp. vii, 23 (n. 25), 24 (fig. 1), 116 (n. 103).
Fischer, Doris. "Spielen wie im Mittelalter: Über 50 Anleitungen zum Nachbauen und Mitspielen." Stuttgart: Theiss, 2013; p. 20.
Clark, Gregory T. "Walters 269 and Manuscript Illumination in the Second Third of the Fifteenth Century." Journal of the Walters Art Museum 72 (2014): 23-41; pp. 29 fig. 9 (fol. 16r), 29 fig. 10 (fol. 45r), 30 fig. 11 (fol. 53v), 30 fig. 12 (fol. 60r), 31 fig. 13 (fol. 84r), 31 fig. 14 (fol. 116r),
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.
Northeastern France
Ca. 1460
book
Non-original Binding
Bound in France ca. 1550-1575; brown calfskin boards; gilded foliate design on upper and lower boards, names "Claude/Armilhon" (upper board) and "Martinne/Marlot" (lower board) in gilt lettering; spine added ca. eighteenth or nineteenth century with gilt lettering of title, "Heures/Gotiques"; endbands of pink and blue thread with edgebead added ca. eighteenth or nineteenth century
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is French, Middle (ca.1400-1600).
Created in northeastern France ca. 1460 for first owner, identified as Collette
Entry on inside of upper board by female owner G. Marlot dated 1559 recording ownership by aunt, named Labourgue, who was the wife of the merchant Jean Bourguet
Given to G. Marlot, who then gave the book to her daughter Martine Marlot, who was the wife of Claude Armilhon
Acquired by Léon Gruel, Parisian bookbinder and bookseller, late nineteenth or early twentieth century
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Léon Gruel between 1895 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Northeastern France
Ca. 1460
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is French, Middle (ca.1400-1600).
Created in northeastern France ca. 1460 for first owner, identified as Collette
Entry on inside of upper board by female owner G. Marlot dated 1559 recording ownership by aunt, named Labourgue, who was the wife of the merchant Jean Bourguet
Given to G. Marlot, who then gave the book to her daughter Martine Marlot, who was the wife of Claude Armilhon
Acquired by Léon Gruel, Parisian bookbinder and bookseller, late nineteenth or early twentieth century
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Léon Gruel between 1895 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This Book of Hours was completed for Use of Reims ca. 1450-1475 in northeastern France. The book was first owned by Collette, who is portrayed on fol. 76r with the Virgin and Child. An inscription from 1559 on the back pastedown records later ownership by female owner G. Marlot, as well as by her aunt, née Labourgue, wife of the merchant Jean Bourguet, followed by G. Marlot's daughter, Martine Marlot. There is a large amount of unusual and specifically female content in the book, including a heightened amount of prayers to the Virgin, virgins listed in the calendar and litany, as well as the unusual inclusion of the Hours of St. Catherine. The manuscript also contains charming marginalia, most famously a garden party scene in which couples play music, and even games such as backgammon, together (fol. 16r).
Fol. 155r-v added by same scribe who added fols. 1r-3v
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Ransom, Allison
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Wallace, Susan
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Ransom, Allison
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. 793, cat. no. 227.
Bowles, E. A., "A Checklist of Musical Instruments in Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscripts at the Walters Art Gallery." Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 32, no. 4 (1976): 719-726; p. 723, pp. 721-725.
Bowles, E.A. Musikleben im 15. Jahrhundert. Musikgeschichte in Bildern, Leipzig: Deutscher Verlag für Musik, 1977, vol. 3; p. 180
Randall, Lilian M. C. "Jewels as Ornaments in Books." The Walters Art Gallery Bulletin 32, no. 3 (December 1979): 7-8, fig. 1 (fol. 16r).
Bowles, E.A., La pratique musicale au moyen âge / Musical Performance in the Late Middle Ages. Geneva: Minkoff et Lattès, 1983; p. 126, pl. 93 (fol. 16r)
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. 447.
Wieck, Roger S. Time Sanctified. The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life. New York: George Braziller, 1988; pp. 118, 188-189, cat. no. 41, fig. 98 (fol. 112).
Withee, Diana. "Making Music in Medieval Manuscripts." The Walters Art Gallery 41, no 10 (December 1988): p. 5, fig. at bottom (detail fol. 16r)
Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 1: France, 1240-1540. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1989; pp. 139-144, cat. no. 129
Burin, Elizabeth. "Medieval Games of Love and War." The Walters Monthly Bulletin 48, no. 10 (December 1995):2-3; p. 3, fig. 2 (fol. 16r)
Sponsler, Claire. Drama and Resistance: Bodies, Goods, and Theatricality in Late Medieval England. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997; pp. 191-192 (n. 51).
Avril, François. Très riches heures de Champagne: L'Enluminure en Champagne à la fin du moyen âge. Paris: Hazan, 2007; pp. 66, 68, 149, figs. 58, 61, and 129 (fols. 38v, 16r, and 11r).
Newman, Paul B. Daily Life in the Middle Ages. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. 2001; p. 105.
Bagnoli, Martina. The Medieval World. Baltimore and London: Walters Art Museum and D. Giles, Ltd., 2011; p. 152, fig. 136.
Reinburg, Virginia. French Books of Hours: Making an Archive of Prayer, c. 1400-1600. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012; pp. vii, 23 (n. 25), 24 (fig. 1), 116 (n. 103).
Fischer, Doris. "Spielen wie im Mittelalter: Über 50 Anleitungen zum Nachbauen und Mitspielen." Stuttgart: Theiss, 2013; p. 20.
Clark, Gregory T. "Walters 269 and Manuscript Illumination in the Second Third of the Fifteenth Century." Journal of the Walters Art Museum 72 (2014): 23-41; pp. 29 fig. 9 (fol. 16r), 29 fig. 10 (fol. 45r), 30 fig. 11 (fol. 53v), 30 fig. 12 (fol. 60r), 31 fig. 13 (fol. 84r), 31 fig. 14 (fol. 116r),
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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