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 biblical Psalter was created in French Flanders for a lady with Cistercian connections in the third quarter of the thirteenth century. Fourteenth-century additions for the use of a woman suggest that it continued to be used by female supplicants for some time after its creation. A prefatory cycle of ten full-page miniatures was also added in the fourteenth century, which complemented the original, and more traditional, series of ten historiated initials found within the Psalter.
Written in textura by later, fourteenth-century hand
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Emery, Doug
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, S., 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. 770, cat. no. 80.
Miner, Dorothy. Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Exhibition Catalogue. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1949; cat. no. 53.
Diringer, David. The Illuminated Book: Its History and Production. London: Faber and Faber, 1958; p. 386.
Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 1, pt. 1. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989; pp. 75-77, cat. no. 32.
Bousmanne, Bernard. Item à Guillaume Wyelant aussi enlumineur: Willem Vrelant, un aspect de l'enluminure dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux sous le mécénat des ducs de Bourgogne Philippe le Bon et Charles le Téméraire. Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1997; p. 367 (n. 202).
Noel, William, and Daniel Weiss. The Book of Kings: Art, War, and the Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible. London: Third Millennium Publishing; Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, 2002, p. 163, cat. no. 12.
Bennett, Adelaide. "The Transformation of the Gothic Psalter." In The Illuminated Psalter. Edited by F.O. Bütner, 211-222. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2004; p. 219 (n. 43).
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.
Northeast France (Flanders at the time)
Third quarter of the 13th century CE
book
Non-original Binding
Rebound in the early twentieth century in burnt sienna velvet, and housed at that time in a telescopic case, by Léon Gruel, Paris; edges gilt; earlier binding described in Rosenthal catalog as having been brown calf, with monogram "P P L" within a series of four "S's" struck through with a vertical line
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Made for a lady with Cistercian connections in the third quarter of the thirteenth century; evidence includes initial with woman kneeling in prayer fol. 136v, and Cistercian saints in calendar
Second female owner suggested by fourteenth-century addition of prayers to Virgin for female supplicant, fols. 15r-17r
Jacques Rosenthal collection, Munich; 1901 dealer catalog 27, no. 74
Léon Gruel, Paris, early twentieth century; Gruel and Engelmann bookplate on front flyleaf i,v, inscribed "No. 63"
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel between 1902 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Northeast France (Flanders at the time)
Third quarter of the 13th century CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Made for a lady with Cistercian connections in the third quarter of the thirteenth century; evidence includes initial with woman kneeling in prayer fol. 136v, and Cistercian saints in calendar
Second female owner suggested by fourteenth-century addition of prayers to Virgin for female supplicant, fols. 15r-17r
Jacques Rosenthal collection, Munich; 1901 dealer catalog 27, no. 74
Léon Gruel, Paris, early twentieth century; Gruel and Engelmann bookplate on front flyleaf i,v, inscribed "No. 63"
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel between 1902 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This biblical Psalter was created in French Flanders for a lady with Cistercian connections in the third quarter of the thirteenth century. Fourteenth-century additions for the use of a woman suggest that it continued to be used by female supplicants for some time after its creation. A prefatory cycle of ten full-page miniatures was also added in the fourteenth century, which complemented the original, and more traditional, series of ten historiated initials found within the Psalter.
Written in textura by later, fourteenth-century hand
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Emery, Doug
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, S., 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. 770, cat. no. 80.
Miner, Dorothy. Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Exhibition Catalogue. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1949; cat. no. 53.
Diringer, David. The Illuminated Book: Its History and Production. London: Faber and Faber, 1958; p. 386.
Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 1, pt. 1. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989; pp. 75-77, cat. no. 32.
Bousmanne, Bernard. Item à Guillaume Wyelant aussi enlumineur: Willem Vrelant, un aspect de l'enluminure dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux sous le mécénat des ducs de Bourgogne Philippe le Bon et Charles le Téméraire. Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1997; p. 367 (n. 202).
Noel, William, and Daniel Weiss. The Book of Kings: Art, War, and the Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible. London: Third Millennium Publishing; Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, 2002, p. 163, cat. no. 12.
Bennett, Adelaide. "The Transformation of the Gothic Psalter." In The Illuminated Psalter. Edited by F.O. Bütner, 211-222. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2004; p. 219 (n. 43).
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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