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 for Use of Rome was created by one of the followers of the Master of the Prayerbooks of Bruges ca. 1510. In 1577, it was acquired by Charles de la Porte, who commissioned its rebinding, and had the armorial shield of his family added to a decorated initial on fol. 136r. While the manuscript's illuminations are relatively spare in their renderings, they include a number of unusual details. The margins of the Crucifixion (fols. 17v-18r) and the beginning of the Devotional Sequence (fol. 140r) contain segmented borders divided by red and white tree trunks with peeling or "bleeding" bark, thus unifying the two sets of prayer. Also of note is the miniature depicting Pentecost, where Mary is shown kneeling in prayer. Decorated initials are present throughout the manuscript. This manuscript appears to have been used infrequently by its original owner, with limited dirt and wear on most of the pages.
Littera batarda
artist: Follower of Master of the Prayerbooks ca. 1500
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Mergen, Christopher
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bucca, Lauren
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbold, Rebekah
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Schuele, Allyson
Contributor: Sedovic, Katherine
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
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 Company, 1935; p. 810, cat. no. 330.
Bowles, Edmund A. "A Checklist of Musical Instruments in Fifteenth Century Illuminated Manuscripts at the Walters Art Gallery." Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 32, no. 4 (1976): 719-726; pp. 721, 723.
Owens, M.B. "Musical Subjects in the Illumination of Books of Hours from Fifteenth-Century France and Flanders." Ph.D. diss, University of Chicago, 1987: p. 474.
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, 1997; pp. 504-509, cat. no. 294.
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.
Flanders
Ca. 1510 CE
book
Non-original Binding
Bound in sixteenth century in eastern France; dark brown calf; gold blocked and tooled, with central oval composed of wreath and foliated scrolls, with similar design on both front and back cover; spine contains gold-tooled inscription: "ANNO / CAROLUS / *DE*LA* / PORTE / SIT. VITA COMOE / DIA / 1577" (Let life be a comedy)
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Created ca. 1510 by artist working in the Ghent-Bruges style of the Master of the Prayerbooks
Charles de la Porte, Artois and Picardy, his name and date, 1577, recorded on binding; armorial of de la Porte family likely added at this time on fol. 136r
Appears to have been sold to unknown buyer in seventeenth century; inscription of that period on back pastedown records cost of forty guilders and praise of illuminations in Dutch: "40 Gl Seer heerlyke Tykeninge"
Unknown owner ca. 1900; pencil inscription in Dutch on fol. 153r: "Wie oudheid minnaar is komt hier dit boekje kopen het schijnt slechts prulijen [?] maar... [?] doer het open"
Gruel and Engelmann collection, Paris, late nineteenth or early twentieth century; their bookplate on front pastedown inscribed "No. 67"
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchase from Gruel and Engelmann before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Flanders
Ca. 1510 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Created ca. 1510 by artist working in the Ghent-Bruges style of the Master of the Prayerbooks
Charles de la Porte, Artois and Picardy, his name and date, 1577, recorded on binding; armorial of de la Porte family likely added at this time on fol. 136r
Appears to have been sold to unknown buyer in seventeenth century; inscription of that period on back pastedown records cost of forty guilders and praise of illuminations in Dutch: "40 Gl Seer heerlyke Tykeninge"
Unknown owner ca. 1900; pencil inscription in Dutch on fol. 153r: "Wie oudheid minnaar is komt hier dit boekje kopen het schijnt slechts prulijen [?] maar... [?] doer het open"
Gruel and Engelmann collection, Paris, late nineteenth or early twentieth century; their bookplate on front pastedown inscribed "No. 67"
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchase from Gruel and Engelmann before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This Book of Hours for Use of Rome was created by one of the followers of the Master of the Prayerbooks of Bruges ca. 1510. In 1577, it was acquired by Charles de la Porte, who commissioned its rebinding, and had the armorial shield of his family added to a decorated initial on fol. 136r. While the manuscript's illuminations are relatively spare in their renderings, they include a number of unusual details. The margins of the Crucifixion (fols. 17v-18r) and the beginning of the Devotional Sequence (fol. 140r) contain segmented borders divided by red and white tree trunks with peeling or "bleeding" bark, thus unifying the two sets of prayer. Also of note is the miniature depicting Pentecost, where Mary is shown kneeling in prayer. Decorated initials are present throughout the manuscript. This manuscript appears to have been used infrequently by its original owner, with limited dirt and wear on most of the pages.
Littera batarda
artist: Follower of Master of the Prayerbooks ca. 1500
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Mergen, Christopher
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bucca, Lauren
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbold, Rebekah
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Schuele, Allyson
Contributor: Sedovic, Katherine
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
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 Company, 1935; p. 810, cat. no. 330.
Bowles, Edmund A. "A Checklist of Musical Instruments in Fifteenth Century Illuminated Manuscripts at the Walters Art Gallery." Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 32, no. 4 (1976): 719-726; pp. 721, 723.
Owens, M.B. "Musical Subjects in the Illumination of Books of Hours from Fifteenth-Century France and Flanders." Ph.D. diss, University of Chicago, 1987: p. 474.
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, 1997; pp. 504-509, cat. no. 294.
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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