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.
Virgil, otherwise known as Publius Vergilius Maro (70 BCE-19 BCE), was a Roman poet who lived and worked during the reign of Emperor Augustus (63 BCE-14 CE). In addition to the Eclogues (or Bucolics) and the Georgics, he is best known for his epic poem The Aeneid. The Eclogues is composed of ten individual poems in dactylic hexameter, the meter used for all of Virgil's works. The structure and content of the Eclogues is based on Greek bucolic poetry, a genre created by the poet Theocritus, who lived in the third century BCE. Bucolic poetry is usually set in the country and highlights the pleasures of a simple, pastoral life. The Eclogues are adapted from this model but discuss Rome's turbulent history between 44 and 38 BCE after the death of Julius Caesar. The Georgics was produced ca. 29 BCE and is written in four books that focus on rural life and farming, extolling the benefits of country life, and taking many cues from the “Works and Days” by the Greek poet Hesiod (mid-eighth to mid-seventh century BCE). However, the text is also largely an allegorical commentary on the end of the Roman Republic and beginning of the Roman Empire in the mid to late first century BCE, a tumultuous time in the city's history. The parchment and decoration of the Walters version are fairly simple, and the text is heavily annotated, suggesting it served a student's textbook in the fifteenth century.
Humanist script
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: Wiegand, Kimber
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. 832, no. 441.
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.
Italy
Ca. 1450 CE
book
Non-original Binding
Eighteenth-century light brown sheep leather binding; gold-tooled floral border; possibly a thirteenth-century(?) palimpsest; antique laid paper flyleaves with a hand-shaped water mark (the wrist on one flyleaf, the fingers on another); the spine with gold tooling in seven compartments, the second reading "VIR / GIL / IUS;" repairs on fols. 11, 43, 46 and 52 with antique laid paper
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Created in Italy ca. 1450
Purchased in the fifteenth century by the monks of Santa Maria della Grazie
Leo S. Olschki, bookseller, Florence, ca. 1912
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Leo S. Olschki
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Italy
Ca. 1450 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Created in Italy ca. 1450
Purchased in the fifteenth century by the monks of Santa Maria della Grazie
Leo S. Olschki, bookseller, Florence, ca. 1912
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Leo S. Olschki
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Virgil, otherwise known as Publius Vergilius Maro (70 BCE-19 BCE), was a Roman poet who lived and worked during the reign of Emperor Augustus (63 BCE-14 CE). In addition to the Eclogues (or Bucolics) and the Georgics, he is best known for his epic poem The Aeneid. The Eclogues is composed of ten individual poems in dactylic hexameter, the meter used for all of Virgil's works. The structure and content of the Eclogues is based on Greek bucolic poetry, a genre created by the poet Theocritus, who lived in the third century BCE. Bucolic poetry is usually set in the country and highlights the pleasures of a simple, pastoral life. The Eclogues are adapted from this model but discuss Rome's turbulent history between 44 and 38 BCE after the death of Julius Caesar. The Georgics was produced ca. 29 BCE and is written in four books that focus on rural life and farming, extolling the benefits of country life, and taking many cues from the “Works and Days” by the Greek poet Hesiod (mid-eighth to mid-seventh century BCE). However, the text is also largely an allegorical commentary on the end of the Roman Republic and beginning of the Roman Empire in the mid to late first century BCE, a tumultuous time in the city's history. The parchment and decoration of the Walters version are fairly simple, and the text is heavily annotated, suggesting it served a student's textbook in the fifteenth century.
Humanist script
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: Wiegand, Kimber
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. 832, no. 441.
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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