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 was completed in the 1480s for Adolph, duke of Cleves, count of La Mack, lord of Ravenstein and Wijnendale (1425-92), and member of the entourage of the dukes of Burgundy until 1477 and thereafter in a position of personal trust under Archduke Maximilian, husband of Mary of Burgundy (d. 1482). The manuscript is highly illuminated and includes two portraits of Adolph of Ghent: a full-page miniature portraying the duke kneeling before a portrait of the Virgin and Child (fol. 13v), and a smaller portrait of Adolph revering the Virgin in an initial at the opening of a prayer to Mary (fol. 80v, "O beatissima virgo Maria"). The manuscript was likely made after the year 1470, when Adolph of Cleves married his second wife Anne of Burgundy (1441-1508). The presence of an inscription by Anne of Burgundy (fol. 71r: "A / B votre mieulx aimee / Anne") suggests that she may have commissioned the volume. A full-page illumination of Adolph of Cleves' heraldry includes the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece, an order of chivalry founded in Bruges by Philip III, duke of Burgundy.
Burgundian bâtard
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Valle, Chiara
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Wallace, Susan
Contributor: Brown, Emily
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbold, Rebekah
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Sam Fogg, Cat. 14. London: 1901; ref. under no. 28.
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. 805, cat. no. 307.
Miner, D. Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore: 1949; no. 130.
Van Damme, J. "Adolf van Kleef en van Mark, Heer van Ravenstein in Dienst van de Bourgondische Politiek," Ph.D. diss., Catholic University of Louvain, 1967; pp. 258-265.
Gorissen, F. Das Stundenbuch der Katharina von Kleve: Analyse und Kommentar. Berlin: 1973; p. 743.
Bowles, E. A. "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, 723, 726.
Canby, J. V., D. M. Buitron, A. Oliver Jr., R. H. Randall, Jr., D. Scarisbrick, and W. R. Johnston. Jewelry: Ancient to Modern. New York: The Viking Press in cooperation with the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, 1979; p. 165, color illus.
Randall, Lilian M. C. "Jewels as Ornaments in Books." In The Walters Art Gallery Bulletin 12 (1979): pp. 7-8, p. 8, fig. 2 (fol. 64r).
Randall, L. M. C. Illuminated Manuscripts: Masterpieces in Miniature, Highlights from the Collection of the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. Baltimore: 1984; pl. 30.
Lightbrown, R. W. "Venerable Beads," Bond St. Magazine (1987): p. 16, color illus.
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. 478.
Wieck, Roger S. "Time Sanctified: The Book of Hours." In The Walters Art Gallery Bulletin, vol. 41, no. 4 (1988): cover, pp. 1-5, p. 1 (detail of fol. 13v).
Wieck, Roger S. Time Sanctified: The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life. New York: George Braziller, 1988; p. 34, fig. 5 (fol.13v), p. 117, fig. 97 (fol. 69v).
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. 423-436 (ref. under cat. no. 281, W.439).
Crossley-Holland, N. A Fifteenth-Century Franciscan French Office: Translation and Commentary of the Hours of the Passion. Medieval Studies 4 (Lewiston/Queenston, 1991): pp. 140-141, 145, 191.
Crossley-Holland, N. Medieval European Jewellery with a Catalogue of the Collection at the Victoria & Albert Museum. London: 1992; pp. 52-53.
Tolley, Thomas S. “Hugo van der Goes’s Altarpiece for Trinity College Church in Edinburgh and Mary of Guelders, Queen of Scotland.” In Medieval Art and Architecture in the Diocese of St. Andrews. Edited by John Higgitt, 213-231. Leeds: British Archaeological Association, 1994; p. 216.
Brinkmann, Bodo. Die Flamische Buchmalerei Am Ende Des Burgunderreichs. Turnhout: Brepols, 1997; p. 347f.
Sponsler, Claire. Drama and Resistance: Bodies, Goods, and Theatricality in Late Medieval England. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1997; pp. 128, 191 (n. 40).
Pearson, Andrea. Envisioning Gender in Burgundian Devotional Art, 1350-1530. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005; fig. 26 (fol. 13v)
Vanwijnsberghe, Dominique. "Le cycle d'enfance des petites de la vierge dans les livres d'heures des pays-bas méridionaux." In Manuscripten en miniaturen: Studies aangeboden aan Anne S. Korteweg bij haar afscheid van de Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Bijdragen tot de Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse Boekhandel. Nieuwe Reeks (8). Edited by Jos Biemans, Klaas van der Hoek, Kathryn M. Rudy, and Ed van der Vlist, 355-366. Zutphen: Walburg Pers, 2007; p. 360.
Campbell, Marian. Medieval Jewelry in Europe (1100-1500). London: V&A Publishing, 2009; p. 22.
Brinkmann, Bodo. Der Codex Rotundus: Vollständige Facsimile-Ausgabe der Handschrift Hs 728, Domsbibliothek Hildesheim. Graz: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt, 2012; p. 133, pl. 11 (fols. 13v-14r)
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.
Ghent
Ca. 1480-90 CE
book
Non-original Binding
Central brown calf panels made in Belgium in the sixteenth or seventeenth century; two blind-tooled panels per side decorated with angel musicians in roundels; border inscription reads: "in conspectu angelor[um] / psallam tibi domine et aborabo / ad templum sanctu[m] / tuu[m] et confitebor nomini tuo"; modern olive-brown leather components of binding made by Léon Gruel ca. 1900; modern sewing on five bands
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is French, Middle (ca.1400-1600).
Created in Ghent in the 1480s for Adolph, Duke of Cleves, count of La Marck, lord of Ravenstein and Wijnendale
Léon Gruel, Paris, late nineteenth-early twentieth century
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel between 1895 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Ghent
Ca. 1480-90 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is French, Middle (ca.1400-1600).
Created in Ghent in the 1480s for Adolph, Duke of Cleves, count of La Marck, lord of Ravenstein and Wijnendale
Léon Gruel, Paris, late nineteenth-early twentieth century
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel between 1895 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This Book of Hours was completed in the 1480s for Adolph, duke of Cleves, count of La Mack, lord of Ravenstein and Wijnendale (1425-92), and member of the entourage of the dukes of Burgundy until 1477 and thereafter in a position of personal trust under Archduke Maximilian, husband of Mary of Burgundy (d. 1482). The manuscript is highly illuminated and includes two portraits of Adolph of Ghent: a full-page miniature portraying the duke kneeling before a portrait of the Virgin and Child (fol. 13v), and a smaller portrait of Adolph revering the Virgin in an initial at the opening of a prayer to Mary (fol. 80v, "O beatissima virgo Maria"). The manuscript was likely made after the year 1470, when Adolph of Cleves married his second wife Anne of Burgundy (1441-1508). The presence of an inscription by Anne of Burgundy (fol. 71r: "A / B votre mieulx aimee / Anne") suggests that she may have commissioned the volume. A full-page illumination of Adolph of Cleves' heraldry includes the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece, an order of chivalry founded in Bruges by Philip III, duke of Burgundy.
Burgundian bâtard
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Valle, Chiara
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Wallace, Susan
Contributor: Brown, Emily
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbold, Rebekah
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Sam Fogg, Cat. 14. London: 1901; ref. under no. 28.
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. 805, cat. no. 307.
Miner, D. Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore: 1949; no. 130.
Van Damme, J. "Adolf van Kleef en van Mark, Heer van Ravenstein in Dienst van de Bourgondische Politiek," Ph.D. diss., Catholic University of Louvain, 1967; pp. 258-265.
Gorissen, F. Das Stundenbuch der Katharina von Kleve: Analyse und Kommentar. Berlin: 1973; p. 743.
Bowles, E. A. "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, 723, 726.
Canby, J. V., D. M. Buitron, A. Oliver Jr., R. H. Randall, Jr., D. Scarisbrick, and W. R. Johnston. Jewelry: Ancient to Modern. New York: The Viking Press in cooperation with the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, 1979; p. 165, color illus.
Randall, Lilian M. C. "Jewels as Ornaments in Books." In The Walters Art Gallery Bulletin 12 (1979): pp. 7-8, p. 8, fig. 2 (fol. 64r).
Randall, L. M. C. Illuminated Manuscripts: Masterpieces in Miniature, Highlights from the Collection of the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. Baltimore: 1984; pl. 30.
Lightbrown, R. W. "Venerable Beads," Bond St. Magazine (1987): p. 16, color illus.
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. 478.
Wieck, Roger S. "Time Sanctified: The Book of Hours." In The Walters Art Gallery Bulletin, vol. 41, no. 4 (1988): cover, pp. 1-5, p. 1 (detail of fol. 13v).
Wieck, Roger S. Time Sanctified: The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life. New York: George Braziller, 1988; p. 34, fig. 5 (fol.13v), p. 117, fig. 97 (fol. 69v).
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. 423-436 (ref. under cat. no. 281, W.439).
Crossley-Holland, N. A Fifteenth-Century Franciscan French Office: Translation and Commentary of the Hours of the Passion. Medieval Studies 4 (Lewiston/Queenston, 1991): pp. 140-141, 145, 191.
Crossley-Holland, N. Medieval European Jewellery with a Catalogue of the Collection at the Victoria & Albert Museum. London: 1992; pp. 52-53.
Tolley, Thomas S. “Hugo van der Goes’s Altarpiece for Trinity College Church in Edinburgh and Mary of Guelders, Queen of Scotland.” In Medieval Art and Architecture in the Diocese of St. Andrews. Edited by John Higgitt, 213-231. Leeds: British Archaeological Association, 1994; p. 216.
Brinkmann, Bodo. Die Flamische Buchmalerei Am Ende Des Burgunderreichs. Turnhout: Brepols, 1997; p. 347f.
Sponsler, Claire. Drama and Resistance: Bodies, Goods, and Theatricality in Late Medieval England. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1997; pp. 128, 191 (n. 40).
Pearson, Andrea. Envisioning Gender in Burgundian Devotional Art, 1350-1530. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005; fig. 26 (fol. 13v)
Vanwijnsberghe, Dominique. "Le cycle d'enfance des petites de la vierge dans les livres d'heures des pays-bas méridionaux." In Manuscripten en miniaturen: Studies aangeboden aan Anne S. Korteweg bij haar afscheid van de Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Bijdragen tot de Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse Boekhandel. Nieuwe Reeks (8). Edited by Jos Biemans, Klaas van der Hoek, Kathryn M. Rudy, and Ed van der Vlist, 355-366. Zutphen: Walburg Pers, 2007; p. 360.
Campbell, Marian. Medieval Jewelry in Europe (1100-1500). London: V&A Publishing, 2009; p. 22.
Brinkmann, Bodo. Der Codex Rotundus: Vollständige Facsimile-Ausgabe der Handschrift Hs 728, Domsbibliothek Hildesheim. Graz: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt, 2012; p. 133, pl. 11 (fols. 13v-14r)
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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