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 by followers of Loyset Liédet ca. 1470 in Bruges. The calendar and litany feature saints venerated in Bruges, Brittany, and Angers, which locates the book to the northwest region of Flanders. This book contains eleven extant miniatures and a hymn to the Virgin, which was added to the end of the book early on. There is an unusual scribal error spanning fols. 182v and 183r, where 182v is an incomplete repetition of 183v, and 183r contains the same text as 182r. Therefore, the entire opening from 182v to 183r is redundant and interrupts the proper flow of the text, but would have been difficult to remove without also removing the texts in their proper places. It is interesting evidence of the potential errors that could arise from the practice of copying models.
Historiated initials fols. 20r and 25r
artist: Loyset Liédet orbit
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Ransom, Allison
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Cooper, Madeline
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Shartrand, Emily
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. 795, cat. no. 245.
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, 1976, p. 721-723.
Owens, M.B., "Musical Subjects in the Illumination of Books of Hours from Fifteenth-Century France and Flanders," PhD dissertation, University of Chicago, 1987, p. 453.
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. 342-348, cat. no. 269
Legaré, Anne-Marie. “Loyset Liédet: un noveau manuscrit enluminé.” Revue de l'art 126 (1999): 36-49; p. 46 (n. 5).
Gathercole, Patricia M. The Depiction of Women in Medieval French Manuscript Illumination. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2000; p. 85.
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. 1470 CE
book
Non-original Binding
Bound in Belgium(?) in fifteenth or sixteenth century; re-backed and spine received blind tooling ca. 1900; dark reddish brown leather boards; five single bands sewn on; rounded and backed spine; decorative blind tooling repeated four times on upper and lower board; modern green, beige and white end bands with edge bead around core; two silver edge pin fastenings attached to upper board ca. 1900
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Created in Bruges ca. 1470 by followers of Loyset Liédet
"Lombard" or "Lombiard" inscribed in seventeenth-century hand on fol. 1 in top margin, possibly a name or indication of ownership in that period
Notes about contents of manuscript in pencil on front pastedown indicate modern Italian ownership
Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired between 1895 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Bruges (?)
Ca. 1470 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Created in Bruges ca. 1470 by followers of Loyset Liédet
"Lombard" or "Lombiard" inscribed in seventeenth-century hand on fol. 1 in top margin, possibly a name or indication of ownership in that period
Notes about contents of manuscript in pencil on front pastedown indicate modern Italian ownership
Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired between 1895 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This Book of Hours was completed by followers of Loyset Liédet ca. 1470 in Bruges. The calendar and litany feature saints venerated in Bruges, Brittany, and Angers, which locates the book to the northwest region of Flanders. This book contains eleven extant miniatures and a hymn to the Virgin, which was added to the end of the book early on. There is an unusual scribal error spanning fols. 182v and 183r, where 182v is an incomplete repetition of 183v, and 183r contains the same text as 182r. Therefore, the entire opening from 182v to 183r is redundant and interrupts the proper flow of the text, but would have been difficult to remove without also removing the texts in their proper places. It is interesting evidence of the potential errors that could arise from the practice of copying models.
Historiated initials fols. 20r and 25r
artist: Loyset Liédet orbit
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Ransom, Allison
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Cooper, Madeline
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Shartrand, Emily
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. 795, cat. no. 245.
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, 1976, p. 721-723.
Owens, M.B., "Musical Subjects in the Illumination of Books of Hours from Fifteenth-Century France and Flanders," PhD dissertation, University of Chicago, 1987, p. 453.
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. 342-348, cat. no. 269
Legaré, Anne-Marie. “Loyset Liédet: un noveau manuscrit enluminé.” Revue de l'art 126 (1999): 36-49; p. 46 (n. 5).
Gathercole, Patricia M. The Depiction of Women in Medieval French Manuscript Illumination. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2000; p. 85.
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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