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 unusually large Psalter-Hours was created in the last quarter of the thirteenth century in the Thérouanne region of northeastern France, considered Flanders at the time. Illuminated throughout with elaborate decorated and historiated initials, the manuscript also contains a single full-page miniature of the martyrdom of Thomas Becket. An emphasis on Augustine in the calendar and litany suggest that the manuscript's original patron may have been associated with an Augustinian foundation, possibly Saint-Augustin-lès-Thérouanne. An inscription dated 1590 indicates that the book was given to Brother Iohannes Guimier by a previous owner, Henricus Iordanus. It was at this time that an alphabetical index, foliation, and notations were added to the manuscript, suggesting that Brother Guimier used it a great deal. The binding, a nineteenth-century fabrication, is adorned with a large medieval champlevé enamel plaque in the Limoges style, which is roughly contemporary with the manuscript.
Sixteenth-century hand
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Izer, Emily
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Schuele, Allyson
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. 85.
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. 362 (fig. 3).
Miner, Dorothy, V.I. Carlson, and P. W. Filby. 2,000 Years of Calligraphy: A Three-Part Exhibition Organized by the Baltimore Museum of Art, Peabody Institute Library, and the Walters Art Gallery, 6 June-18 July 1965. Exhibition Catalogue. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1965; cat. no. 28, illus. of f. 173.
Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 1, pt. 1. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989; pp. 93-96, cat. no. 40.
Gil, Marc, and Ludovic Nys. Saint-Omer gothique: les arts figuratifs à Saint-Omer à la fin du Moyen Âge, 1250-1550 : peinture, vitrail, sculpture, arts du livre. Valenciennes Cedex: Presses Universitaires deValenciennes, 2004; p. 75.
Bennett, Adelaide. "Christ’s Five Wounds in the Aves of the Vita Christi in a Book of Hours about 1300." In Tributes in Honor of James H. Marrow Studies in Painting and Manuscript Illumination of the Late Middle Ages and Northern Renaissance. Edited by Jeffrey F. Hamburger and A.S. Korteweg, 75-84. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2006; p. 79.
Ottosen, Knud. The Responsories and Versicles of the Latin Office of the Dead. Norderstedt, Germany: Books on Demand, 2007; pp. viii, 197.
Randall, Lilian M.C. "An Early Fourteenth-Century Psalter from East Anglia." In Tributes to Lucy Freeman Sandler: Studies in Illuminated Manuscripts. Edited by Kathryn A. Smith and Carol H. Krinksy, 219-233. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2007;. p. 226 (n. 42).
Clark, Robert L.A., and Pamela Sheingorn. "Rewriting Joseph in the Life of Christ." In The Pèlerinage Allegories of Guillaume de Deguileville: Tradition, Authority, and Influence. Edited by Marco Nievergelt and Stephanie A. Viereck Gibbs Kamath, 65-90. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2013; p. 81.
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)
Last quarter 13th century CE
book
Non-original Binding
Rebound by Léon Gruel, Paris, late nineteenth or early twentieth century; red velvet with embedded champlevé enamel plaque of the Crucifixion, done in Limoges style, thirteenth or fourteenth century; two fifteenth- or sixteenth-century gilded bronze clasps inscribed "IsMa" in Gothic lettering attached to modern straps; manuscript originally housed in matching Gruel telescopic case with his name stamped in gold (now replaced by modern conservation box)
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Created in northeastern France
Female supplicant used, fourteenth century, based on change from male to female form in collect
Obituary added in calendar for March 18 in a fourteenth-century hand "domini lamberti de tolneere anno lvi"
Manuscript changed hands as gift in 1590; dated inscription on fol. 1r indicates "dominus Henricus Iordanus" gave the manuscript to "Frater Iohannes Guimier;" notes by latter found on fols. 7r-v, 193v, 195r; date of 1590 and gloss to Psalm 119:129 on fol. 117v, and ink folio and Psalm numeration also in his hand
English ownership, second half of nineteenth century; notes and inscriptions in pencil, mostly erased, e.g. fol. 194r, where "v r second of April, 1889" is visible
Léon Gruel, Paris, late nineteenth or early twentieth century; Gruel and Engelmann bookplate inscribed "No 129"
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel in 1903
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Northeast France (Flanders at the time)
Last quarter 13th century CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Created in northeastern France
Female supplicant used, fourteenth century, based on change from male to female form in collect
Obituary added in calendar for March 18 in a fourteenth-century hand "domini lamberti de tolneere anno lvi"
Manuscript changed hands as gift in 1590; dated inscription on fol. 1r indicates "dominus Henricus Iordanus" gave the manuscript to "Frater Iohannes Guimier;" notes by latter found on fols. 7r-v, 193v, 195r; date of 1590 and gloss to Psalm 119:129 on fol. 117v, and ink folio and Psalm numeration also in his hand
English ownership, second half of nineteenth century; notes and inscriptions in pencil, mostly erased, e.g. fol. 194r, where "v r second of April, 1889" is visible
Léon Gruel, Paris, late nineteenth or early twentieth century; Gruel and Engelmann bookplate inscribed "No 129"
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel in 1903
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This unusually large Psalter-Hours was created in the last quarter of the thirteenth century in the Thérouanne region of northeastern France, considered Flanders at the time. Illuminated throughout with elaborate decorated and historiated initials, the manuscript also contains a single full-page miniature of the martyrdom of Thomas Becket. An emphasis on Augustine in the calendar and litany suggest that the manuscript's original patron may have been associated with an Augustinian foundation, possibly Saint-Augustin-lès-Thérouanne. An inscription dated 1590 indicates that the book was given to Brother Iohannes Guimier by a previous owner, Henricus Iordanus. It was at this time that an alphabetical index, foliation, and notations were added to the manuscript, suggesting that Brother Guimier used it a great deal. The binding, a nineteenth-century fabrication, is adorned with a large medieval champlevé enamel plaque in the Limoges style, which is roughly contemporary with the manuscript.
Sixteenth-century hand
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Izer, Emily
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Schuele, Allyson
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. 85.
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. 362 (fig. 3).
Miner, Dorothy, V.I. Carlson, and P. W. Filby. 2,000 Years of Calligraphy: A Three-Part Exhibition Organized by the Baltimore Museum of Art, Peabody Institute Library, and the Walters Art Gallery, 6 June-18 July 1965. Exhibition Catalogue. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1965; cat. no. 28, illus. of f. 173.
Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 1, pt. 1. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989; pp. 93-96, cat. no. 40.
Gil, Marc, and Ludovic Nys. Saint-Omer gothique: les arts figuratifs à Saint-Omer à la fin du Moyen Âge, 1250-1550 : peinture, vitrail, sculpture, arts du livre. Valenciennes Cedex: Presses Universitaires deValenciennes, 2004; p. 75.
Bennett, Adelaide. "Christ’s Five Wounds in the Aves of the Vita Christi in a Book of Hours about 1300." In Tributes in Honor of James H. Marrow Studies in Painting and Manuscript Illumination of the Late Middle Ages and Northern Renaissance. Edited by Jeffrey F. Hamburger and A.S. Korteweg, 75-84. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2006; p. 79.
Ottosen, Knud. The Responsories and Versicles of the Latin Office of the Dead. Norderstedt, Germany: Books on Demand, 2007; pp. viii, 197.
Randall, Lilian M.C. "An Early Fourteenth-Century Psalter from East Anglia." In Tributes to Lucy Freeman Sandler: Studies in Illuminated Manuscripts. Edited by Kathryn A. Smith and Carol H. Krinksy, 219-233. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2007;. p. 226 (n. 42).
Clark, Robert L.A., and Pamela Sheingorn. "Rewriting Joseph in the Life of Christ." In The Pèlerinage Allegories of Guillaume de Deguileville: Tradition, Authority, and Influence. Edited by Marco Nievergelt and Stephanie A. Viereck Gibbs Kamath, 65-90. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2013; p. 81.
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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