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 Psalter-Hours was made for a Franciscan community in Cologne, Germany, in the late thirteenth century. It is especially notable for its large program of illuminations, which includes roundels in the calendar depicting the labors of the month, two full-page miniatures, fourteen historiated initials, and grotesques perched upon the top of bar borders throughout. It is identical in style to Baltimore, Walters Ms. W.111, and both are related to the style of Liège manuscripts of the 1280s-90s. They are also considered to be stylistic precursors of works by Johannes von Valkenburg, such as two graduals he created for Franciscans in Cologne in 1299 (Cologne, Diözesan Bibliothek Ms. 1B and Bonn, Universitätsbibliothek Ms. 384).
Written in Gothic bookhand
Principal cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Davis, Lisa Fagin
Contributor: Dutschke, Consuelo
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Hamburger, Jeffrey
Contributor: Klemm, Elizabeth
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Sciacca, Christine
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
Conservator: Owen, Linda
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. 770, no. 82.
Oliver, Judith. "The Mosan Origins of Johannes von Valkenburg." Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch 40 (1978): 23-37, figs. 8, 10 (fols. 10v, 43v).
Oliver, Judith. "The French Gothic Style in Cologne: Manuscripts before Johannes von Valkenburg." In Miscellanea Neerlandica: Opstellen voor Dr. Jan Deschamps ter Gelegenheid van Zijn Zeventigste Verjaardag. Leuven, Netherlands: E. Peeters, 1987, pp. 381-396.
Oliver, Judith. Gothic Manuscript Illumination in the Diocese of Liège (ca. 1250-ca. 1330). Vols. 1-2. Leuven, Netherlands: Uitgeverij Peeters, 1988, p. 176 (vol. 1), pl. 179 (vol. 2).
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.
Cologne, Germany
Late 13th century CE
book
Non-original Binding
Sixteenth- or seventeenth-century boards (possibly beech) re-covered in the nineteenth century with now worn red velvet, probably by Gruel; eighteenth- or nineteenth-century clasps, crudely reattached
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is German, Middle High (ca.1050-1500).
Made for the Franciscan community in Cologne, Germany, late thirteenth century
Léon Gruel collection no. 1128, Paris, late nineteenth or early twentieth century
Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired from Gruel before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Cologne, Germany
Late 13th century CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is German, Middle High (ca.1050-1500).
Made for the Franciscan community in Cologne, Germany, late thirteenth century
Léon Gruel collection no. 1128, Paris, late nineteenth or early twentieth century
Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired from Gruel before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
This Psalter-Hours was made for a Franciscan community in Cologne, Germany, in the late thirteenth century. It is especially notable for its large program of illuminations, which includes roundels in the calendar depicting the labors of the month, two full-page miniatures, fourteen historiated initials, and grotesques perched upon the top of bar borders throughout. It is identical in style to Baltimore, Walters Ms. W.111, and both are related to the style of Liège manuscripts of the 1280s-90s. They are also considered to be stylistic precursors of works by Johannes von Valkenburg, such as two graduals he created for Franciscans in Cologne in 1299 (Cologne, Diözesan Bibliothek Ms. 1B and Bonn, Universitätsbibliothek Ms. 384).
Written in Gothic bookhand
Principal cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Davis, Lisa Fagin
Contributor: Dutschke, Consuelo
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Hamburger, Jeffrey
Contributor: Klemm, Elizabeth
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Sciacca, Christine
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
Conservator: Owen, Linda
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. 770, no. 82.
Oliver, Judith. "The Mosan Origins of Johannes von Valkenburg." Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch 40 (1978): 23-37, figs. 8, 10 (fols. 10v, 43v).
Oliver, Judith. "The French Gothic Style in Cologne: Manuscripts before Johannes von Valkenburg." In Miscellanea Neerlandica: Opstellen voor Dr. Jan Deschamps ter Gelegenheid van Zijn Zeventigste Verjaardag. Leuven, Netherlands: E. Peeters, 1987, pp. 381-396.
Oliver, Judith. Gothic Manuscript Illumination in the Diocese of Liège (ca. 1250-ca. 1330). Vols. 1-2. Leuven, Netherlands: Uitgeverij Peeters, 1988, p. 176 (vol. 1), pl. 179 (vol. 2).
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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