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The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
This Book of Hours was made ca. 1420-1440 for use of Rome in northeastern France or Paris, as suggested by the contents in the calendar and the inclusion of a suffrage to St. Avia. Although the identity of the initial patron is unknown, his heraldry was added thirty-five times throughout the book. The manuscript was owned within the first decades of its creation by Thomas Malet of Berlettes and Jeanne of Lannoy, whose heraldry was added early into the manuscript as well. This was likely in the 1430s, coinciding with their marriage, and the addition of a miniature depicting the Marriage of the Virgin at this time supports this. This manuscript contains twenty-seven additional miniatures, some of which are of particular iconographical note, such as St. Luke painting the Virgin (fol. 14v). The inclusion of this depiction, as well as other compositional and style choices, link this book to the Master of Morgan 453.
Text written in textura formata
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Ransom, Allison
Cataloger: Valle, Chiara
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Brown, Emily
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Owen, Linda
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. 797, cat. no. 261.
Panofsky, E., Early Netherlandish Painting, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1953, p. 254, 384, 407, and 460
Diringer, D., The Illuminated Book: Its History and Production, New York, 1958, revised 1967, p. 404, pl. VII-18b, fol. 234r
Meiss, M., with the assistance of K. Morand and E. W. Kirsch, French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry: The Boucicaut Master, National Gallery of Art, Kress Foundation Studies in the History of European Art, New York, 1968, p. 389
Meiss, M., French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry: The Limbourgs and Their Contemporaries, New York, 1974, p. 365-366
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, 725.
de Winter, P.M., Manuscrits à peintures produits pour le mécénat lillois sous le règnes de Jean sans Peur et de Philippe le Bon," in Artes du 101e Congres National des Sociétés Savantes (1976), Paris 1978, p. 236, 238, figs. 2, 3 (fols. 233r, 17r)
von Euw, A., and Plotzek, J. M., Die Handschriften der Sammlung Ludwig (Cologne, 1979-1985), vol. 2 (1982, by J. M. Plotzek), p. 112, 305
Pächt, O., Jenni, U., and Thoss, D., Die Illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, ser. I/6: Flämische Schule I. Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Phil.-Hist. Klasse, Denkschriften 160, Vienna, 1983, p. 17, fig. 10 (fol. 263r)
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. 454-455 figs. 43-45 (fols. 30v, 31r, and 112r)
Clark, G. T., The Master of Morgan 453, and Illuminator in Paris and Amiens, 1415-1440, Ph.D. diss., Princeton University, 1988, p. 136-157, 196-200, and passim, figs. 172-182, 184, 187, 190, 191, 198 (fols. 15r, 17r, 19r, 21r, 30v, 31r, 79r, 85r, 91r, 97r, 103r, 143r, 155r, 167r, 230r, 239r, and 241r
Verbeke, W. “Kroniek der handschriftenkunde in de Nederlanden - Studie van de middeleeuwse handschriften uit de Nederlanden (nrs. 2518-2635).” Archief- en bibliotheekwezen in België 56 (1985): 394-455; p. 410.
Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 2. France, 1420-1540. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1989; pp. 61-68, cat. no. 112; figs. 207, 208, pl. XIc.
Clark, Gregory T. “The Chronology of the Louthe Master and His Identification with Simon Marmion.” In Margaret of York, Simon Marmion, and The Visions of Tondal. Papers delivered at a symposium organized by the Department of Manuscripts of the J. Paul Getty Museum in collaboration with the Huntington Library and Art Collections, June 21-23, 1990. Edited by T. Kren, pp. 195-208. Malibu: J. Paul Getty Museum Publishers, 1992; pp. 202-203, fig. 173.
Van Buren, Anne H. “Die zweite Kampagne fůr Johann von Bayern: Jan van Eyck,” “The Second Campaign of John of Bavaria: Jan van Eyck,” and “La seconde campagne de Jean de Bavière: Jan van Eyck.” In Heures de Turin-Milan. Edited by Anne H. Van Buren, James H. Marrow, and Silvana Pettenati, 117-128, 313-323, 506-517. Lucerne: Faksimile Verlag. 1996; pp. 127 (n. 39), 322 (n. 39), 516 (n. 39).
Nash, Susie. Between France and Flanders: Manuscript Illumination in Lyons. London: The British Library, 1999; pp. 177-179, 181-183, 186-189, 192-194, 211, figs. 89, 128-129, 132, 134-135, 137, 139, 141, 143, 145, 147, 149, 152, pl. 22.
Wieck, Roger S. “The Death Desired: Books of Hours and the Medieval Funeral.” In Death and Dying in the Middle Ages. Edited by Edelgard E. DuBruck and Barbara I. Gusick, 431-476. New York: Peter Lang, 1999; pp. 438 (as fig. 12), 447 (n. 13), 460 (fig. 12), 472 (ref. under fig. 24).
Gathercole, Patricia M. The Depiction of Angels and Demons in Medieval French Manuscript Illumination. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2004; pp. 21, 38, 63, pl. 22.
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, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2000; pp. 60, 66, 163, illus. 28-30.
Randall, Lilian M.C. “Frontal Heads in the Borders of Parisian and South Netherlandish Books of Hours, ca. 1415-60.” In Tributes in Honor of Jonathan J.G. Alexander: The Making and Meaning of Illuminated Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, Art, and Architecture. Edited by Susan L’Engle and Gerald B. Gest, 249-268. Turnhout, Belgium: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2006; pp. 256-257, 263-264.
Gathercole, Patricia. M. The Depiction of Architecture and Furniture in Medieval French Manuscript Illumination. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006; pp. 36-37, Pl. 11.
Gathercole, Patricia M. The Depiction of Clothing in Medieval French Manuscripts. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2008; pp. 76, 81.
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 (French Flanders)
Ca. 1420-40
book
Non-original Binding
Eighteenth-century red morocco with gilt dentelle floral and foliate decoration on the sides and gilt guilloche pattern on the board-edges; the spine has four raised bands with floral and foliate decoration
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Completed in northeastern France in the first half of the fifteenth century
Thomas Malet of Berlettes and his wife, Jeanne of Lannoy, environs of Lille, owned the book as of ca. 1435-40
Rebound in Belgium in the eighteenth century
Alfred H. Huth
Sold at Sotheby's, London, June 12, 1913
Léon Gruel, Paris
Henry Walters bought the book from Gruel and kept it in his house in New York; brought to the gallery in Baltimore, March 7, 1921
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Northeastern France (French Flanders)
Ca. 1420-40
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Completed in northeastern France in the first half of the fifteenth century
Thomas Malet of Berlettes and his wife, Jeanne of Lannoy, environs of Lille, owned the book as of ca. 1435-40
Rebound in Belgium in the eighteenth century
Alfred H. Huth
Sold at Sotheby's, London, June 12, 1913
Léon Gruel, Paris
Henry Walters bought the book from Gruel and kept it in his house in New York; brought to the gallery in Baltimore, March 7, 1921
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This Book of Hours was made ca. 1420-1440 for use of Rome in northeastern France or Paris, as suggested by the contents in the calendar and the inclusion of a suffrage to St. Avia. Although the identity of the initial patron is unknown, his heraldry was added thirty-five times throughout the book. The manuscript was owned within the first decades of its creation by Thomas Malet of Berlettes and Jeanne of Lannoy, whose heraldry was added early into the manuscript as well. This was likely in the 1430s, coinciding with their marriage, and the addition of a miniature depicting the Marriage of the Virgin at this time supports this. This manuscript contains twenty-seven additional miniatures, some of which are of particular iconographical note, such as St. Luke painting the Virgin (fol. 14v). The inclusion of this depiction, as well as other compositional and style choices, link this book to the Master of Morgan 453.
Text written in textura formata
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Ransom, Allison
Cataloger: Valle, Chiara
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Brown, Emily
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Owen, Linda
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. 797, cat. no. 261.
Panofsky, E., Early Netherlandish Painting, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1953, p. 254, 384, 407, and 460
Diringer, D., The Illuminated Book: Its History and Production, New York, 1958, revised 1967, p. 404, pl. VII-18b, fol. 234r
Meiss, M., with the assistance of K. Morand and E. W. Kirsch, French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry: The Boucicaut Master, National Gallery of Art, Kress Foundation Studies in the History of European Art, New York, 1968, p. 389
Meiss, M., French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry: The Limbourgs and Their Contemporaries, New York, 1974, p. 365-366
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, 725.
de Winter, P.M., Manuscrits à peintures produits pour le mécénat lillois sous le règnes de Jean sans Peur et de Philippe le Bon," in Artes du 101e Congres National des Sociétés Savantes (1976), Paris 1978, p. 236, 238, figs. 2, 3 (fols. 233r, 17r)
von Euw, A., and Plotzek, J. M., Die Handschriften der Sammlung Ludwig (Cologne, 1979-1985), vol. 2 (1982, by J. M. Plotzek), p. 112, 305
Pächt, O., Jenni, U., and Thoss, D., Die Illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, ser. I/6: Flämische Schule I. Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Phil.-Hist. Klasse, Denkschriften 160, Vienna, 1983, p. 17, fig. 10 (fol. 263r)
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. 454-455 figs. 43-45 (fols. 30v, 31r, and 112r)
Clark, G. T., The Master of Morgan 453, and Illuminator in Paris and Amiens, 1415-1440, Ph.D. diss., Princeton University, 1988, p. 136-157, 196-200, and passim, figs. 172-182, 184, 187, 190, 191, 198 (fols. 15r, 17r, 19r, 21r, 30v, 31r, 79r, 85r, 91r, 97r, 103r, 143r, 155r, 167r, 230r, 239r, and 241r
Verbeke, W. “Kroniek der handschriftenkunde in de Nederlanden - Studie van de middeleeuwse handschriften uit de Nederlanden (nrs. 2518-2635).” Archief- en bibliotheekwezen in België 56 (1985): 394-455; p. 410.
Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 2. France, 1420-1540. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1989; pp. 61-68, cat. no. 112; figs. 207, 208, pl. XIc.
Clark, Gregory T. “The Chronology of the Louthe Master and His Identification with Simon Marmion.” In Margaret of York, Simon Marmion, and The Visions of Tondal. Papers delivered at a symposium organized by the Department of Manuscripts of the J. Paul Getty Museum in collaboration with the Huntington Library and Art Collections, June 21-23, 1990. Edited by T. Kren, pp. 195-208. Malibu: J. Paul Getty Museum Publishers, 1992; pp. 202-203, fig. 173.
Van Buren, Anne H. “Die zweite Kampagne fůr Johann von Bayern: Jan van Eyck,” “The Second Campaign of John of Bavaria: Jan van Eyck,” and “La seconde campagne de Jean de Bavière: Jan van Eyck.” In Heures de Turin-Milan. Edited by Anne H. Van Buren, James H. Marrow, and Silvana Pettenati, 117-128, 313-323, 506-517. Lucerne: Faksimile Verlag. 1996; pp. 127 (n. 39), 322 (n. 39), 516 (n. 39).
Nash, Susie. Between France and Flanders: Manuscript Illumination in Lyons. London: The British Library, 1999; pp. 177-179, 181-183, 186-189, 192-194, 211, figs. 89, 128-129, 132, 134-135, 137, 139, 141, 143, 145, 147, 149, 152, pl. 22.
Wieck, Roger S. “The Death Desired: Books of Hours and the Medieval Funeral.” In Death and Dying in the Middle Ages. Edited by Edelgard E. DuBruck and Barbara I. Gusick, 431-476. New York: Peter Lang, 1999; pp. 438 (as fig. 12), 447 (n. 13), 460 (fig. 12), 472 (ref. under fig. 24).
Gathercole, Patricia M. The Depiction of Angels and Demons in Medieval French Manuscript Illumination. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2004; pp. 21, 38, 63, pl. 22.
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, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2000; pp. 60, 66, 163, illus. 28-30.
Randall, Lilian M.C. “Frontal Heads in the Borders of Parisian and South Netherlandish Books of Hours, ca. 1415-60.” In Tributes in Honor of Jonathan J.G. Alexander: The Making and Meaning of Illuminated Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, Art, and Architecture. Edited by Susan L’Engle and Gerald B. Gest, 249-268. Turnhout, Belgium: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2006; pp. 256-257, 263-264.
Gathercole, Patricia. M. The Depiction of Architecture and Furniture in Medieval French Manuscript Illumination. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006; pp. 36-37, Pl. 11.
Gathercole, Patricia M. The Depiction of Clothing in Medieval French Manuscripts. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2008; pp. 76, 81.
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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