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The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
This beautifully bound Book of Hours was completed in Bruges ca. 1490. The illuminator's style was influenced by the Master of Edward IV, active ca. 1470-90, and followers. The manuscript includes twelve full-page miniatures and twenty-five small miniatures, along with sacred and secular marginalia and some illusionistic borders. While the sheer volume of miniatures is remarkable, the decoration program as a whole only strengthens the manuscript’s impact. Select marginalia motifs reinforce the compositional motifs of the miniatures; see fols. 25v and 26r for Passion motifs.
Burgundian littera batarda
artist: Master of Edward IV, fl. 1470-1490
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbold, Rebekah
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Wallace, Susan
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Ransom, Allison
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Olschki, Leo Samuele, Manuscrits sur vélin avec miniatures, cat. 74, no. 23, Pl. VIII (Florence, 1910).
Olschki, Leo Samuele, "Quelques manuscrits fort précieux," La Bibliofilia 13 (1911-12): pp. 15-17, illus. (fol. 92v).
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. 807, cat. no. 314.
Miner, D. The History of Bookbinding, 525-1950 A.D., Exhibition Catalogue no. 342: Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery (1957).
Bowles, Edward Augustus, "A Checklist of Musical Instruments in Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscripts at the Walters Art Gallery," Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 32/4 (1976): pp. 722-25.
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. 475, fig. 57 (fol. 108r).
Wieck, R. S., with essays by L. R. Poos, V Reinburg, and J. Plummer. Time Sanctified: The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life, Exhibition Catalogue, 1988: no. 122, pp. 132, 133, 217, fig. 124 (fol. 128v).
Hindman, S. L., Four Miniatures by Simon Bening, Exhibition Catalogue, London: Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox Ltd., in association with Bruce P. Ferrini Rare Books, Akron, Ohio, and Sam Fogg Rare Books and Manuscripts, London (1989): ref. under lot 25.
Cahn, W. "Margaret of York's guide to the Pilgrimage Churches of Rome," in "Margaret of York, Simon Marmion, and The Visions of Tondal," p. 93, fig. 55. Papers delivered at a symposium organized by the Department of Manuscripts of the J. Paul Getty Museum in collaboration with the Huntington Library and Art Collections, June 21-24 1990, ed. and contributor T. Kren (Malibu, 1992)
Burin, Elizabeth, "Bound to Please," in Bulletin of the Walters Art Gallery, 46/1 (1993): 4.
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. 447-55 (ref. under cat. no. 284, W.435).
Cahn, Walter. Studies in Medieval Art and Interpretation. Oakville, CT: David Brown Book Company, 2000; p. 333 (fig. 13).
Vanwijnsberghe, Dominique. “Marketing Books for Burghers: Jean Markant’s Activity in Tournai, Lille, and Bruges.” In Flemish Manuscript Painting in Context: Recent Research. Edited by Elizabeth Morrison and Thomas Kren, 135-48. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2006; pp. 137, 138, 146.
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. 1490 CE
book
Non-original Binding
Bound in Belgium(?) ca. sixteenth century; crimson velvet over wooden boards; sides are embroidered in panel-and-frame design, displayed and cupped flowers in relief are worked in silver wire wrapped around thread, silver gilded thread wound around dyed yellow silk thread is used for foliate pattern; spine covered with crimson velvet, hollow and lined with red buckram since rebacking in 1949 by MacDonald, New York; endbands of a heavy yellowish rose thread; edges gilded, gauffered with punched Italianate plaitwork design (cf. inscription dated 1546); evidence of former fastening by tie attached by rivets to center fore-edge of upper and lower boards (holes on front and back pastedowns, impressions on front flyleaves)
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is French, Middle (ca.1400-1600).
Completed for use of Rome, likely in Bruges, ca. 1490; illuminated under the influence of the Master of Edward IV
Rebound, possibly in Belgium, sixteenth century
Effaced inscription, on fol. 1r, Rome
Leo S. Olschki, Italian
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Leo S. Olschki in 1912; invoice number 45: WAM Archives
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Bruges
Ca. 1490 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is French, Middle (ca.1400-1600).
Completed for use of Rome, likely in Bruges, ca. 1490; illuminated under the influence of the Master of Edward IV
Rebound, possibly in Belgium, sixteenth century
Effaced inscription, on fol. 1r, Rome
Leo S. Olschki, Italian
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Leo S. Olschki in 1912; invoice number 45: WAM Archives
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This beautifully bound Book of Hours was completed in Bruges ca. 1490. The illuminator's style was influenced by the Master of Edward IV, active ca. 1470-90, and followers. The manuscript includes twelve full-page miniatures and twenty-five small miniatures, along with sacred and secular marginalia and some illusionistic borders. While the sheer volume of miniatures is remarkable, the decoration program as a whole only strengthens the manuscript’s impact. Select marginalia motifs reinforce the compositional motifs of the miniatures; see fols. 25v and 26r for Passion motifs.
Burgundian littera batarda
artist: Master of Edward IV, fl. 1470-1490
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbold, Rebekah
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Wallace, Susan
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Ransom, Allison
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Olschki, Leo Samuele, Manuscrits sur vélin avec miniatures, cat. 74, no. 23, Pl. VIII (Florence, 1910).
Olschki, Leo Samuele, "Quelques manuscrits fort précieux," La Bibliofilia 13 (1911-12): pp. 15-17, illus. (fol. 92v).
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. 807, cat. no. 314.
Miner, D. The History of Bookbinding, 525-1950 A.D., Exhibition Catalogue no. 342: Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery (1957).
Bowles, Edward Augustus, "A Checklist of Musical Instruments in Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscripts at the Walters Art Gallery," Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 32/4 (1976): pp. 722-25.
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. 475, fig. 57 (fol. 108r).
Wieck, R. S., with essays by L. R. Poos, V Reinburg, and J. Plummer. Time Sanctified: The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life, Exhibition Catalogue, 1988: no. 122, pp. 132, 133, 217, fig. 124 (fol. 128v).
Hindman, S. L., Four Miniatures by Simon Bening, Exhibition Catalogue, London: Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox Ltd., in association with Bruce P. Ferrini Rare Books, Akron, Ohio, and Sam Fogg Rare Books and Manuscripts, London (1989): ref. under lot 25.
Cahn, W. "Margaret of York's guide to the Pilgrimage Churches of Rome," in "Margaret of York, Simon Marmion, and The Visions of Tondal," p. 93, fig. 55. Papers delivered at a symposium organized by the Department of Manuscripts of the J. Paul Getty Museum in collaboration with the Huntington Library and Art Collections, June 21-24 1990, ed. and contributor T. Kren (Malibu, 1992)
Burin, Elizabeth, "Bound to Please," in Bulletin of the Walters Art Gallery, 46/1 (1993): 4.
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. 447-55 (ref. under cat. no. 284, W.435).
Cahn, Walter. Studies in Medieval Art and Interpretation. Oakville, CT: David Brown Book Company, 2000; p. 333 (fig. 13).
Vanwijnsberghe, Dominique. “Marketing Books for Burghers: Jean Markant’s Activity in Tournai, Lille, and Bruges.” In Flemish Manuscript Painting in Context: Recent Research. Edited by Elizabeth Morrison and Thomas Kren, 135-48. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2006; pp. 137, 138, 146.
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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