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 French Book of Hours was produced in two phases: the text and most of the secondary decoration were completed in the 1420s, while thirteen large miniatures were added around 1480 by artists trained in Rouen in the style of the Master of the Geneva Latini. The initial female owner is depicted on fol. 139v kneeling in front of St. John the Evangelist. Two coats of arms probably associated with the owner appear twice, on fol. 139r-v. The celebration of specific calendar feasts indicates the volume’s original ownership in the diocese of Coutances, a part of the archbishopric of Rouen. The introduction of Nathan into the scene of the penitent David at the beginning of the Penitential Psalms was a popular theme in illumination in Rouen around this time. A special devotion to St. John the Evangelist is shown by an unusual citation of his name in the heading of a prayer to the Virgin on fol. 128v, and his unusually elaborate depiction on fol. 139v.
Full-page miniature fol. 69r
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Han, Yuna
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Han, Yuna
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
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. 791, cat. no. 218
Bowles, Edmund A. "A Checklist of Musical Instruments in Fifteenth Century Illuminated Manuscripts at the Walters Art Gallery." Music Library Association 32 (1976): 719-726; pp. 721-724
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. 457, figs. 46-48 (fols. 42r, 57r, 69r)
Wieck, Roger S. Time Sanctified. The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life. New York: George Braziller, 1988; pp. 128 and 199, cat. no. 60, fig. 117 (fol. 85r)
Owens, Margareth Boyer. "The Image of King David in Prayer in Fifteenth-Century Books of Hours." Imago Musicae, International Yearbook of Musical Iconography 6 (1989): 23-38; p. 28, fig. 3
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. 294-300, cat. no. 162
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.
Rouen, France
Ca. 15th century CE
book
Non-original Binding
Rebound in France in the second quarter of the sixteenth century; brown calf; sewn on five slit straps; corners and spine repaired in the nineteenth century
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is French, Middle (ca.1400-1600).
Created for use of Coutances in the 1420s, with text completed in that initial stage, and illumination completed around 1480 at Rouen by the Master of the Geneva Latini and his workshop; female owner's portrait on fol. 139v; two coats of arms on fol. 139r, one of Moy de la Croix family of Beauvais
Rebound in France ca. 1540
Léon Gruel, Paris, late nineteenth or early twentieth century; his bookplate engraved "L G" and numbered "1218;" number also found on sale slip now in WAM file
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Rouen, France
Ca. 15th century CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is French, Middle (ca.1400-1600).
Created for use of Coutances in the 1420s, with text completed in that initial stage, and illumination completed around 1480 at Rouen by the Master of the Geneva Latini and his workshop; female owner's portrait on fol. 139v; two coats of arms on fol. 139r, one of Moy de la Croix family of Beauvais
Rebound in France ca. 1540
Léon Gruel, Paris, late nineteenth or early twentieth century; his bookplate engraved "L G" and numbered "1218;" number also found on sale slip now in WAM file
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This French Book of Hours was produced in two phases: the text and most of the secondary decoration were completed in the 1420s, while thirteen large miniatures were added around 1480 by artists trained in Rouen in the style of the Master of the Geneva Latini. The initial female owner is depicted on fol. 139v kneeling in front of St. John the Evangelist. Two coats of arms probably associated with the owner appear twice, on fol. 139r-v. The celebration of specific calendar feasts indicates the volume’s original ownership in the diocese of Coutances, a part of the archbishopric of Rouen. The introduction of Nathan into the scene of the penitent David at the beginning of the Penitential Psalms was a popular theme in illumination in Rouen around this time. A special devotion to St. John the Evangelist is shown by an unusual citation of his name in the heading of a prayer to the Virgin on fol. 128v, and his unusually elaborate depiction on fol. 139v.
Full-page miniature fol. 69r
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Han, Yuna
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Han, Yuna
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
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. 791, cat. no. 218
Bowles, Edmund A. "A Checklist of Musical Instruments in Fifteenth Century Illuminated Manuscripts at the Walters Art Gallery." Music Library Association 32 (1976): 719-726; pp. 721-724
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. 457, figs. 46-48 (fols. 42r, 57r, 69r)
Wieck, Roger S. Time Sanctified. The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life. New York: George Braziller, 1988; pp. 128 and 199, cat. no. 60, fig. 117 (fol. 85r)
Owens, Margareth Boyer. "The Image of King David in Prayer in Fifteenth-Century Books of Hours." Imago Musicae, International Yearbook of Musical Iconography 6 (1989): 23-38; p. 28, fig. 3
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. 294-300, cat. no. 162
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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