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 book of hours was produced ca. 1510-1520 for a member of the Catalonian Almugavar (or Almogàver) family, whose coat of arms appears throughout the manuscript in the borders of the lavish full-page miniatures. There are twenty-six full-page polychrome miniatures (three are missing), of which six were removed from the original quire structure after portions of the miniatures were excised, and then returned to the manuscript, having been pasted onto heavy card-stock folios. There are also eighteen full-page incipits, of which three include historiated vignettes, and numerous folios with elaborate floral motif borders. A significant number of feast days associated with Barcelona help reinforce the Spanish attribution of the manuscript, although the style of the decoration is clearly influenced by contemporary Flemish design.
Textura
Cataloger: Dennis, Nathan S
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Dennis, Nathan S
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
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, 1935, p. 808, no. 322.
Randall, Lilian M. C. "From Cîteaux Onwards: Cistercian-Related Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery." Studies in Cistercian Art and Architecture 3 (1987): pp. 111-136, p. 135, no. 28.
Wieck, Roger S., ed. Time Sanctified: The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life. 2nd ed. New York; Baltimore: George Braziller in association with the Walters Art Museum, 2001, p. 224, cat. no. 118.
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.
Catalonia (?), Spain
1510-1520 CE
book
Non-original Binding
Rebound in the nineteenth century (ca. 1835 according to de Ricci) with reddish brown morocco; blind-tooled and stamped with gold; upper and lower boards include gilded bands of feathers along outer edges; central octagonal space is occupied by floral motifs and framed by blind-tooled beaded guilloché roll and three gilded fillets; Gothic arches and stars project from the corners of the central frame; blind-tooled groups of four vertical lines and gilded floral motifs extend between the arches; spine divided into three rectangular frames, of which the upper and lower depict birds and stars framed by floral motifs, and the central frame includes two Gothic windows with stars; rope-cord design separates the individual frames; fore-edge decorated with gilded spear-head and flower roll; inner-board edges decorated with gilded tulip and bud motif
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Produced for the Amulgavar family of Catalonia ca. 1510-1520; Amulgavar coat of arms appears throughout
Owned by Viscount Joseph de Ayala in the eighteenth century
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Catalonia (?), Spain
1510-1520 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Produced for the Amulgavar family of Catalonia ca. 1510-1520; Amulgavar coat of arms appears throughout
Owned by Viscount Joseph de Ayala in the eighteenth century
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This book of hours was produced ca. 1510-1520 for a member of the Catalonian Almugavar (or Almogàver) family, whose coat of arms appears throughout the manuscript in the borders of the lavish full-page miniatures. There are twenty-six full-page polychrome miniatures (three are missing), of which six were removed from the original quire structure after portions of the miniatures were excised, and then returned to the manuscript, having been pasted onto heavy card-stock folios. There are also eighteen full-page incipits, of which three include historiated vignettes, and numerous folios with elaborate floral motif borders. A significant number of feast days associated with Barcelona help reinforce the Spanish attribution of the manuscript, although the style of the decoration is clearly influenced by contemporary Flemish design.
Textura
Cataloger: Dennis, Nathan S
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Dennis, Nathan S
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
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, 1935, p. 808, no. 322.
Randall, Lilian M. C. "From Cîteaux Onwards: Cistercian-Related Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery." Studies in Cistercian Art and Architecture 3 (1987): pp. 111-136, p. 135, no. 28.
Wieck, Roger S., ed. Time Sanctified: The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life. 2nd ed. New York; Baltimore: George Braziller in association with the Walters Art Museum, 2001, p. 224, cat. no. 118.
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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