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 manuscript, written in Italy at the end of the fifteenth century, contains three different texts attributed to St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430 CE). Augustine was an early Christian theologian and scholar from Roman North Africa who is considered one of the most important Church Fathers. The texts in this manuscript are guidelines for Augustine's followers, monks and nuns alike, on how to live a simple and pious Christian life. The first and third texts are specifically written for his female and male followers respectively as indicated by the miniatures on fols. 1r and 26r. The fourth text in the manuscript is roughly the same as the first and seems to have been added later, perhaps in 1714, the date inscribed above the rubric (fol. 33r). On fol. 26r, the Augustine monk St. Nicholas of Tolentino (d. 1304, canonized 1446) appears in the lower margin, which suggests the Walters manuscript was originally for a monastery dedicated to this saint.
Humanist script except for the last text (fols. 33v-41v), which seems to have been added later
Principal cataloger: Berlin, Nicole
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Conservator: Polidori, Elisabetta
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
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. 824, no. 402.
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.
Northern Italy (Ferrara?)
Ca. 1490 CE
book
Original Binding
Brown goat(?) leather binding created ca. 1490 in Italy; blind-tooled and stamped; on both boards an ovular stamp surrounded by sun rays and enclosing the inscription "IHS' with a cross above and three nails below; rebacked at a later period
The primary language in this manuscript is Italian. The secondary language of this manuscript is Latin.
Created in Northern Italy
Leo S. Olschki, bookseller, Florence, before 1912
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Leo S. Olschki ca. 1912
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Northern Italy (Ferrara?)
Ca. 1490 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Italian. The secondary language of this manuscript is Latin.
Created in Northern Italy
Leo S. Olschki, bookseller, Florence, before 1912
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Leo S. Olschki ca. 1912
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This manuscript, written in Italy at the end of the fifteenth century, contains three different texts attributed to St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430 CE). Augustine was an early Christian theologian and scholar from Roman North Africa who is considered one of the most important Church Fathers. The texts in this manuscript are guidelines for Augustine's followers, monks and nuns alike, on how to live a simple and pious Christian life. The first and third texts are specifically written for his female and male followers respectively as indicated by the miniatures on fols. 1r and 26r. The fourth text in the manuscript is roughly the same as the first and seems to have been added later, perhaps in 1714, the date inscribed above the rubric (fol. 33r). On fol. 26r, the Augustine monk St. Nicholas of Tolentino (d. 1304, canonized 1446) appears in the lower margin, which suggests the Walters manuscript was originally for a monastery dedicated to this saint.
Humanist script except for the last text (fols. 33v-41v), which seems to have been added later
Principal cataloger: Berlin, Nicole
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Conservator: Polidori, Elisabetta
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
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. 824, no. 402.
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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