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 illustrated copy of The lamentations of Jeremiah with the gloss (or interpretation) of Gilbert of Auxerre was written in Austria in the second half of the twelfth century and comes from the monastery of Seitenstetten. Gilbert died in 1134, and the manuscript is an early and important witness to his text. The gloss is written in a small script and is both interlinear and marginal. This layout is typical of glossed books of the Bible from the twelfth century. The illustrations of the sack of Jerusalem and the return to Babylon give valuable information on twelfth-century armor. The manuscript is in its original binding.
Written in a late cursive script; both prayers apparently written in the same fifteenth- or sixteenth-century hand
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Clarkson, Christopher
Contributor: Dutschke, Consuelo
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Hamburger, Jeffrey
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Bibliotheca Medii Aevi Manuscripta. Pars Altera: Einhundert Handschriften des Mittelalters vom zehnten bis zum fünfzehnten Jahrhunderts. Munich: Jacques Rosenthal, 1928, pp. 40-42, no. 139, pl. 7 (fol. 3r).
De Ricci, Seymour. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935, p. 821, no. 388.
Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Arts of the Middle Ages. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1940, p. 7, no. 18.
Walters Art Gallery. Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1949, p. 13, no. 28, pl. 19 (fol. 3r).
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1953, no. 14 (fol. 3r).
Walters Art Gallery. 4,000 Years of Modern Art. Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, 1953, p. 19, no. 59.
Diringer, David. The Illuminated Book: Its History and Production. London: Faber and Faber, 1958, pp. 181-182, pl. 3-32c (fol. 3r).
Temple Emanu El. Festival of the Bible in the Arts. Houston: Temple Emanu El, 1964, no. 73.
The Israel Museum. Old Masters and the Bible. Jerusalem: Japhet Press, 1965, no. 59 (fol. 3v).
Reeves, Marjorie. Then and There: The Medieval Castle. 2nd ed. London: Longmans, 1988, p. 21.
Von Hülsen-Esch, Andrea. Romanische Skulptur in Oberitalien: als Reflex der kommunalen Entwicklung im 12. Jahrhundert. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1994, p. 150, fig. 69 (fol. 3r).
Pirker-Aurenhammer, Veronika. Die Gumbertusbibel: Codex 1 der Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen: Ein Regensburger Bildprogramm des späten 12. Jahrhunderts. Regensburg: Universitätsverlag, 1998, pp. 169-170, figs. 76-77 (fol. 3r-v).
Andrée, Alexander. Gilbertus Universalis Glossa Ordinaria in Lamentationes Ieremie Prophete Prothemata et Liber I: A Critical Edition with an Introduction and a Translation. Stockholm: Almquist and Wiksell International, 2005, p. 89 (as de Ricci 388).
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.
Austria
Second half of the 12th century CE
book
Original Binding
Plain alum-tawed leather over oak(?) boards; center fore-edge strap meant to fasten to pin on upper board missing; sewn on three alum-tawed straps; endbands of a single rolled alum-tawed core, worked with similar thread to main sewing; double blind lines on each band; saltire cross formed from two double lines on upper board; five small steel studs once on each board, with a six-petaled impression remaining from each of them
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Made in Austria in the second half of the twelfth century
Petrus de Anaso, Weyer (ca. 1500 inscription partially erased on front pastedown reading, "Anno etc. 30. Liber dom.[?] Petri de Anaso dominum socio in hospitai Wienn[ensi]")
Johannus Hofulner (sixteenth-century inscription on front pastedown reading, "Hic libellus est Joh[annis] hofulner[?] de Wey[er]") (provenance)
Benedictine monastery of Seitenstetten by early twentieth century
Jacques Rosenthal, owned as of 1928, cat. 90, no. 139
Leo S. Olschki, after 1928
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Olschki before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Austria
Second half of the 12th century CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Made in Austria in the second half of the twelfth century
Petrus de Anaso, Weyer (ca. 1500 inscription partially erased on front pastedown reading, "Anno etc. 30. Liber dom.[?] Petri de Anaso dominum socio in hospitai Wienn[ensi]")
Johannus Hofulner (sixteenth-century inscription on front pastedown reading, "Hic libellus est Joh[annis] hofulner[?] de Wey[er]") (provenance)
Benedictine monastery of Seitenstetten by early twentieth century
Jacques Rosenthal, owned as of 1928, cat. 90, no. 139
Leo S. Olschki, after 1928
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Olschki before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
This illustrated copy of The lamentations of Jeremiah with the gloss (or interpretation) of Gilbert of Auxerre was written in Austria in the second half of the twelfth century and comes from the monastery of Seitenstetten. Gilbert died in 1134, and the manuscript is an early and important witness to his text. The gloss is written in a small script and is both interlinear and marginal. This layout is typical of glossed books of the Bible from the twelfth century. The illustrations of the sack of Jerusalem and the return to Babylon give valuable information on twelfth-century armor. The manuscript is in its original binding.
Written in a late cursive script; both prayers apparently written in the same fifteenth- or sixteenth-century hand
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Clarkson, Christopher
Contributor: Dutschke, Consuelo
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Hamburger, Jeffrey
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Bibliotheca Medii Aevi Manuscripta. Pars Altera: Einhundert Handschriften des Mittelalters vom zehnten bis zum fünfzehnten Jahrhunderts. Munich: Jacques Rosenthal, 1928, pp. 40-42, no. 139, pl. 7 (fol. 3r).
De Ricci, Seymour. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935, p. 821, no. 388.
Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Arts of the Middle Ages. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1940, p. 7, no. 18.
Walters Art Gallery. Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1949, p. 13, no. 28, pl. 19 (fol. 3r).
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1953, no. 14 (fol. 3r).
Walters Art Gallery. 4,000 Years of Modern Art. Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, 1953, p. 19, no. 59.
Diringer, David. The Illuminated Book: Its History and Production. London: Faber and Faber, 1958, pp. 181-182, pl. 3-32c (fol. 3r).
Temple Emanu El. Festival of the Bible in the Arts. Houston: Temple Emanu El, 1964, no. 73.
The Israel Museum. Old Masters and the Bible. Jerusalem: Japhet Press, 1965, no. 59 (fol. 3v).
Reeves, Marjorie. Then and There: The Medieval Castle. 2nd ed. London: Longmans, 1988, p. 21.
Von Hülsen-Esch, Andrea. Romanische Skulptur in Oberitalien: als Reflex der kommunalen Entwicklung im 12. Jahrhundert. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1994, p. 150, fig. 69 (fol. 3r).
Pirker-Aurenhammer, Veronika. Die Gumbertusbibel: Codex 1 der Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen: Ein Regensburger Bildprogramm des späten 12. Jahrhunderts. Regensburg: Universitätsverlag, 1998, pp. 169-170, figs. 76-77 (fol. 3r-v).
Andrée, Alexander. Gilbertus Universalis Glossa Ordinaria in Lamentationes Ieremie Prophete Prothemata et Liber I: A Critical Edition with an Introduction and a Translation. Stockholm: Almquist and Wiksell International, 2005, p. 89 (as de Ricci 388).
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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