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The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
This early sixteenth-century illuminated prayer book contains Latin prayers and passages from the Gospels. Although small in scale, it is notable for its abundance of illuminations, with nearly sixty extant small miniatures. Full-color portraits embellish the prayers to the Virgin and Suffrages, while the images within the Gospel narrative are rendered primarily in grisaille, a nearly entirely gray monochrome technique. The last folios include a trompe-l'oeil foliate margin and a Crucifixion that seems to be a later addition. Throughout the book gold initials on red or blue grounds mark the beginning of the prayers.
Calligraphic gothic bookhand
Principal cataloger: Marrow, James
Cataloger: Devine, Alex
Cataloger: Dutschke, Consuelo
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Valle, Chiara
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Boot, Christine
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
De Ricci, Seymour, and William J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935, p. 815, no. 360.
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.
Leiden, Netherlands
First quarter of the 16th century CE
book
Non-original Binding
Nineteenth-century red velvet binding; yellow and gray-green woven silk ribbon marker, anchored under top endband; two fore-edge ties of yellow silk thread wrapped with silver (tarnished)
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Created in the early sixteenth century in the Netherlands
Edwin H. Lawrence; his sale London 1892, lot no. 527
W. C. Hazlitt, London, purchased from Edwin H. Lawrence, 1892
Marshall C. Lefferts collection, New York, late nineteenth century; his monogram in small gold and black book-shaped bookplate at top left on front pastedown
George H. Richmond, purchased from Lefferts sale, 1901
Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired from Richmond before 1931
The Walters Art Museum, by Henry Walters' bequest, 1931
Leiden, Netherlands
First quarter of the 16th century CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Created in the early sixteenth century in the Netherlands
Edwin H. Lawrence; his sale London 1892, lot no. 527
W. C. Hazlitt, London, purchased from Edwin H. Lawrence, 1892
Marshall C. Lefferts collection, New York, late nineteenth century; his monogram in small gold and black book-shaped bookplate at top left on front pastedown
George H. Richmond, purchased from Lefferts sale, 1901
Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired from Richmond before 1931
The Walters Art Museum, by Henry Walters' bequest, 1931
This early sixteenth-century illuminated prayer book contains Latin prayers and passages from the Gospels. Although small in scale, it is notable for its abundance of illuminations, with nearly sixty extant small miniatures. Full-color portraits embellish the prayers to the Virgin and Suffrages, while the images within the Gospel narrative are rendered primarily in grisaille, a nearly entirely gray monochrome technique. The last folios include a trompe-l'oeil foliate margin and a Crucifixion that seems to be a later addition. Throughout the book gold initials on red or blue grounds mark the beginning of the prayers.
Calligraphic gothic bookhand
Principal cataloger: Marrow, James
Cataloger: Devine, Alex
Cataloger: Dutschke, Consuelo
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Valle, Chiara
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Boot, Christine
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
De Ricci, Seymour, and William J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935, p. 815, no. 360.
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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