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 pocket-size Book of Hours, ca. 1500, was completed in the style of the Master of the Prayerbooks and his associates. This manuscript was likely completed in Bruges, where these artists seem to have been centered. The style of illumination, which can be seen in the twelve extant miniatures, borders, historiated initials, and even drolleries, exhibits a skilled precision required of painters who were tasked with completing the illumination of books this size.
Written in Italianate gotica rotunda; change of hand on fol. 184r
artist: Circle of the Master of the Prayerbooks
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbold, Rebekah
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
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. 470-474 (ref. under cat. no. 288, W. 429).
Olschki, L. S. "Quelques manuscrits fort précieux," La Bibliofilia 13 (1911-12): p. 17, illus. (fols. 41v, 118v)
Olschki, L. S. Manuscrits sur vélin avec miniatures, Cat. 74; Sale Catalogues, (Florence, 1910): no. 21, Pl. VIII (fols. 41v, 118v).
Bowles, E. A. "A Checklist of Musical Instruments in Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscripts at the Walters Art Gallery," Quarterly Journal of the Musical Library Association; 32/4 (1976): pp. 719-796.
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. 813, cat. no. 347.
Owens, M. B. "Musical Subjects in the Illumination of Books of Hours from Fifteenth-Century France and Flanders," Ph.D dissertations, University of Chicago: 1987, p. 472.
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. 1500 CE
book
Non-original Binding
Italy, ca. seventeenth century; crimson morocco over pasteboard, butt corners; original sewing on four tawed bands, silver initials on each side: "D V" at top, "M M" at base; lower cover: "D M" at top, "R M" at base; spine rebacked, possibly repaired, endbands in blue and pink silk, gilt edges, indentations attest to former presence of two fore-edge fastenings
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Bruges
Italy, seventeenth century, deluxe binding applied
Leo. S. Olschki, Florence, Italy; obtained by 1910-1911, his inventory number "32198" centered on front pastedown, "69" penciled at top left, "17" in pencil on back pastedown at top right
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased in 1911-1912, shipping list ca. 1912: WAG archives
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Bruges(?)
Ca. 1500 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Bruges
Italy, seventeenth century, deluxe binding applied
Leo. S. Olschki, Florence, Italy; obtained by 1910-1911, his inventory number "32198" centered on front pastedown, "69" penciled at top left, "17" in pencil on back pastedown at top right
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased in 1911-1912, shipping list ca. 1912: WAG archives
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This pocket-size Book of Hours, ca. 1500, was completed in the style of the Master of the Prayerbooks and his associates. This manuscript was likely completed in Bruges, where these artists seem to have been centered. The style of illumination, which can be seen in the twelve extant miniatures, borders, historiated initials, and even drolleries, exhibits a skilled precision required of painters who were tasked with completing the illumination of books this size.
Written in Italianate gotica rotunda; change of hand on fol. 184r
artist: Circle of the Master of the Prayerbooks
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbold, Rebekah
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
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. 470-474 (ref. under cat. no. 288, W. 429).
Olschki, L. S. "Quelques manuscrits fort précieux," La Bibliofilia 13 (1911-12): p. 17, illus. (fols. 41v, 118v)
Olschki, L. S. Manuscrits sur vélin avec miniatures, Cat. 74; Sale Catalogues, (Florence, 1910): no. 21, Pl. VIII (fols. 41v, 118v).
Bowles, E. A. "A Checklist of Musical Instruments in Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscripts at the Walters Art Gallery," Quarterly Journal of the Musical Library Association; 32/4 (1976): pp. 719-796.
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. 813, cat. no. 347.
Owens, M. B. "Musical Subjects in the Illumination of Books of Hours from Fifteenth-Century France and Flanders," Ph.D dissertations, University of Chicago: 1987, p. 472.
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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