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 Prayer Book, likely completed in Bruges ca. 1510-20, contains eight extant full-page miniatures, twelve calendar illustrations, and ten illuminated margins. The artistic style is similar to that of Simon Bening, but its relationship to him has not been firmly established. It is a small devotional text, sized to fit easily into the palm of the supplicant. The book is bound in violet velvet with ornate, chiseled silver-gilt furnishings and has a kid-lined violet velvet case for further protection and decoration. As for the devotional content of the Prayer Book, this manuscript is at first striking for its multilingual prayers; the text alternates between mostly German and Latin prayers, although the last section of the book, a part that remains unfinished, is written in French. Contents are indicative of an intended German owner, but there remain some Netherlandish feasts with irregular dates. Although diminutive in size, this manuscript is rich in content, heritage, and decoration.
By different scribe
?: Simon Bening and associates (artist)
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbold, Rebekah
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbold, Rebekah
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
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 Company, 1935; p. 810, cat. no. 332.
Wolf, Edwin. A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: 1937; Fig. 44.
Walters Art Museum, D. Miner. Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore: 1949; no. 214, Pl. LXXVIII
Walters Art Gallery. The History Of Bookbinding, 525-1950 A.D. Organized by the Walters Art Gallery and Presented in Cooperation with the Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery. 1957, no. 122
Flanders in the Fifteenth Century: Art and Civilization. Catalogue of exhibition entitled "Masterpieces of Flemish Art: van Eyck to Bosch," Detroit Institute of Arts and the City of Bruges: Detroit and Brussels, 1960: no. 213, illus.
Diringer, David. The Illuminated Book: Its History and Production, rev. ed. New York: 1967; p. 455.
Dogaer, Georges. "La travéebrugeoise dans quelques manuscrits de l'école Ganto-Brugeoise." Scriptorium 23 (1969): 338-341; p. 340
Biermann, Alfons W. "Die Miniaturenhandschriften des Kardinals Albrecht von Brandenburg (1514-1545)," Aachener Kunstblätter 46 (1975); pp. 29-31.
Verbeke, W. “Kroniek der handschriftenkunde in de Nederlanden - Studie van de middeleeuwse handschriften uit de Nederlanden (nrs. 2518-2635).” Archief- en bibliotheekwezen in België 56 (1985): 394-455; p. 410.
Dogaer, Georges. Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th Centuries. Amsterdam, B.M. Israël, 1987; p. 177.
Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 3. Belgium, 1250-1530. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1989; pp. 521-531 (ref. under cat. no. 296, W. 426)
Owens, M. B. "Musical Subjects in the Illumination of Books of Hours from Fifteenth-Century France and Flanders," Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago: 1987, p. 471
Kren, Thomas. “Simon Bening and the Master of the David Scenes in the Grimani Breviary.” In Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe. Edited by Thomas Kren and Scot McKendrick, 448-449. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003; p. 449, ref. under cat. no. 139.
As-Vijvers, Anne Margreet W. “Weaving Mary’s Chaplet: The Representation of the Rosary in Late Medieval Flemish Manuscript Illumination.” In Weaving, Veiling, and Dressing: Textiles and Their Metaphors in the Late Middle Ages. Edited by Kathryn M. Rudy and Barbara Baert, 41-80. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007; p. 77.
Goehring, Margaret L. “The Representation and Meaning of Luxurious Textiles in Franco-French Manuscript Illumination.” In Weaving, Veiling, and Dressing: Textiles and Their Metaphors in the Late Middle Ages. Edited by Kathryn M. Rudy and Barbara Baert, 121-155. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007; p. 153.
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.
Bruges(?)
Ca. 1510-1520 CE
book
Non-original Binding
French(?), ca. nineteenth century; violet velvet; sewn on three cords, spine rounded and backed, hollow; modern endbands in yellow and green silk; gilt edges, gauffered after cropping, pointiellé single and double linear frame design; chiseled and ornate silver gilt furnishings, central medallion and corner-guards probably German, ca. second half of the sixteenth century; modern side plates in form of Pan-herms (head of the upper Pan-herm missing) and engraved fore-edge clasps with fret decoration hinged from lower cover; blue silk ribbon marker, leather fore-edge tabs; worn velvet case, violet in color, front flap with missing button, inside of case lined in kid
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary languages of this manuscript are German, French, Middle (ca.1400-1600).
Ca. 1510-20, Bruges
Owned by two women ca. 1518-47; owners' entries in Calendar in lower margin, fully or partially effaced, dates and names of two women still legible on fol. 9r, "1518" and fol. 1r, "1522 . . . katharina"
Jan Kommer, sixteenth or seventeenth century, signature entered on fol. 208, possibly former back pastedown
Léon Gruel, Paris bookbinder and bookseller, late nineteenth or early twentieth century, his unnumbered slip removed from front pastedown
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel between 1895 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Bruges(?)
Ca. 1510-1520 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary languages of this manuscript are German, French, Middle (ca.1400-1600).
Ca. 1510-20, Bruges
Owned by two women ca. 1518-47; owners' entries in Calendar in lower margin, fully or partially effaced, dates and names of two women still legible on fol. 9r, "1518" and fol. 1r, "1522 . . . katharina"
Jan Kommer, sixteenth or seventeenth century, signature entered on fol. 208, possibly former back pastedown
Léon Gruel, Paris bookbinder and bookseller, late nineteenth or early twentieth century, his unnumbered slip removed from front pastedown
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel between 1895 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This Prayer Book, likely completed in Bruges ca. 1510-20, contains eight extant full-page miniatures, twelve calendar illustrations, and ten illuminated margins. The artistic style is similar to that of Simon Bening, but its relationship to him has not been firmly established. It is a small devotional text, sized to fit easily into the palm of the supplicant. The book is bound in violet velvet with ornate, chiseled silver-gilt furnishings and has a kid-lined violet velvet case for further protection and decoration. As for the devotional content of the Prayer Book, this manuscript is at first striking for its multilingual prayers; the text alternates between mostly German and Latin prayers, although the last section of the book, a part that remains unfinished, is written in French. Contents are indicative of an intended German owner, but there remain some Netherlandish feasts with irregular dates. Although diminutive in size, this manuscript is rich in content, heritage, and decoration.
By different scribe
?: Simon Bening and associates (artist)
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbold, Rebekah
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbold, Rebekah
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
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 Company, 1935; p. 810, cat. no. 332.
Wolf, Edwin. A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: 1937; Fig. 44.
Walters Art Museum, D. Miner. Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore: 1949; no. 214, Pl. LXXVIII
Walters Art Gallery. The History Of Bookbinding, 525-1950 A.D. Organized by the Walters Art Gallery and Presented in Cooperation with the Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery. 1957, no. 122
Flanders in the Fifteenth Century: Art and Civilization. Catalogue of exhibition entitled "Masterpieces of Flemish Art: van Eyck to Bosch," Detroit Institute of Arts and the City of Bruges: Detroit and Brussels, 1960: no. 213, illus.
Diringer, David. The Illuminated Book: Its History and Production, rev. ed. New York: 1967; p. 455.
Dogaer, Georges. "La travéebrugeoise dans quelques manuscrits de l'école Ganto-Brugeoise." Scriptorium 23 (1969): 338-341; p. 340
Biermann, Alfons W. "Die Miniaturenhandschriften des Kardinals Albrecht von Brandenburg (1514-1545)," Aachener Kunstblätter 46 (1975); pp. 29-31.
Verbeke, W. “Kroniek der handschriftenkunde in de Nederlanden - Studie van de middeleeuwse handschriften uit de Nederlanden (nrs. 2518-2635).” Archief- en bibliotheekwezen in België 56 (1985): 394-455; p. 410.
Dogaer, Georges. Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th Centuries. Amsterdam, B.M. Israël, 1987; p. 177.
Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 3. Belgium, 1250-1530. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1989; pp. 521-531 (ref. under cat. no. 296, W. 426)
Owens, M. B. "Musical Subjects in the Illumination of Books of Hours from Fifteenth-Century France and Flanders," Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago: 1987, p. 471
Kren, Thomas. “Simon Bening and the Master of the David Scenes in the Grimani Breviary.” In Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe. Edited by Thomas Kren and Scot McKendrick, 448-449. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003; p. 449, ref. under cat. no. 139.
As-Vijvers, Anne Margreet W. “Weaving Mary’s Chaplet: The Representation of the Rosary in Late Medieval Flemish Manuscript Illumination.” In Weaving, Veiling, and Dressing: Textiles and Their Metaphors in the Late Middle Ages. Edited by Kathryn M. Rudy and Barbara Baert, 41-80. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007; p. 77.
Goehring, Margaret L. “The Representation and Meaning of Luxurious Textiles in Franco-French Manuscript Illumination.” In Weaving, Veiling, and Dressing: Textiles and Their Metaphors in the Late Middle Ages. Edited by Kathryn M. Rudy and Barbara Baert, 121-155. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007; p. 153.
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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