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This small Gospel Book was made in Werden, Germany, in the eleventh century. Its size indicates that it was intended for daily, personal use, and a series of ownership inscriptions on the first folio, which trace the ownership of the manuscript among several members of the clergy, provides insight into its use. Although the book contains little decoration, with no canon tables or ornamental initials, the Gospels are introduced by three brown- and red-ink pen drawings of the Evangelists, two of which were embedded into the end of the previous Gospel by the artist. The manuscript is, however, incomplete and lacks the end of Matthew as well as the portrait of Mark, which was likely incorporated into Matthew's explicit page, as was done with the other portraits.
Late Caroline minuscule; two scribes evident, second responsible for fols. 150r-166v
Cataloger: Dutschke, Consuelo
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Noel, William
Cataloger: Sciacca, Christine
Cataloger: Valle, Chiara
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Davis, Lisa Fagin
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Klemm, Elizabeth
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
De Ricci, Seymour. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935, p. 767, no. 63.
Baltimore Museum of Art. The Greek Tradition in Painting and the Minor Arts: An Exhibition Sponsored Jointly by the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Walters Art Gallery from May 15 through June 25, 1939. Baltimore Museum of Art, 1939, p. 75, no. 87.
"Bulletin Codicologique." Scriptorium 22 (1968): pp. 118-119, no. 152.
Elbern, Victor. "Eine frühmittelalterliche Handschrift aus Werden in Baltimore." Aachener Kunstblätter 39 (1969): pp. 92-110.
"Bulletin Codicologique." Scriptorium 26 (1972): pp. 130-246, no. 177.
Kahsnitz, Rainer. Der Werdener Psalter in Berlin: Ms. theol. lat. fol. 358: Eine Untersuchung zu Problemen mittelalterlicher Psalterillustration. Düsseldorf: Schwann, 1979, pp. 36-37, 252, figs. 375, 376.
Hoffmann, Hartmut. "Buchkunst und Königstum im Ottonischen und Frühsalischen Reich." Schriften der Monumenta Germaniae Historica, 30, no. 1. Stuttgart: A. Hiersemann, 1986, p. 101, n. 20.
Gerchow, Jan. Das Jahrtausend der Mönche: Kloster Welt Werden, 799-1803. Cologne: Wienand, 1999, p. 362, no. 60 (fol. 2v).
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.
Werden, Germany
11th century CE
book
Non-original Binding
Red velvet over cardboard, gilded edges; bound by Léon Gruel, Paris, late nineteenth century
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Werden, Germany, early eleventh century
Abbot Duden, St. Liudger, Helmstadt, ca. 1573, inscription fol. 1r
Stephanus Campmann, Benedictine Abbey, Werden, 1597; a German inscription on fol. 1r identifies Stephanus Campmann of Büderich
Prior Heinrich Meibom, St. Liudger, Helmstadt, before 1625; a second German inscription on fol. 1r states that Stephanus Campmann gave the manuscript to Heinrich Meibom through Prior Heinrich of St. Liudger
Gruel and Engelmann collection no. 64, Paris, late nineteenth century
Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired from Léon Gruel before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Werden, Germany
11th century CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Werden, Germany, early eleventh century
Abbot Duden, St. Liudger, Helmstadt, ca. 1573, inscription fol. 1r
Stephanus Campmann, Benedictine Abbey, Werden, 1597; a German inscription on fol. 1r identifies Stephanus Campmann of Büderich
Prior Heinrich Meibom, St. Liudger, Helmstadt, before 1625; a second German inscription on fol. 1r states that Stephanus Campmann gave the manuscript to Heinrich Meibom through Prior Heinrich of St. Liudger
Gruel and Engelmann collection no. 64, Paris, late nineteenth century
Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired from Léon Gruel before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This small Gospel Book was made in Werden, Germany, in the eleventh century. Its size indicates that it was intended for daily, personal use, and a series of ownership inscriptions on the first folio, which trace the ownership of the manuscript among several members of the clergy, provides insight into its use. Although the book contains little decoration, with no canon tables or ornamental initials, the Gospels are introduced by three brown- and red-ink pen drawings of the Evangelists, two of which were embedded into the end of the previous Gospel by the artist. The manuscript is, however, incomplete and lacks the end of Matthew as well as the portrait of Mark, which was likely incorporated into Matthew's explicit page, as was done with the other portraits.
Late Caroline minuscule; two scribes evident, second responsible for fols. 150r-166v
Cataloger: Dutschke, Consuelo
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Noel, William
Cataloger: Sciacca, Christine
Cataloger: Valle, Chiara
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Davis, Lisa Fagin
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Klemm, Elizabeth
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
De Ricci, Seymour. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935, p. 767, no. 63.
Baltimore Museum of Art. The Greek Tradition in Painting and the Minor Arts: An Exhibition Sponsored Jointly by the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Walters Art Gallery from May 15 through June 25, 1939. Baltimore Museum of Art, 1939, p. 75, no. 87.
"Bulletin Codicologique." Scriptorium 22 (1968): pp. 118-119, no. 152.
Elbern, Victor. "Eine frühmittelalterliche Handschrift aus Werden in Baltimore." Aachener Kunstblätter 39 (1969): pp. 92-110.
"Bulletin Codicologique." Scriptorium 26 (1972): pp. 130-246, no. 177.
Kahsnitz, Rainer. Der Werdener Psalter in Berlin: Ms. theol. lat. fol. 358: Eine Untersuchung zu Problemen mittelalterlicher Psalterillustration. Düsseldorf: Schwann, 1979, pp. 36-37, 252, figs. 375, 376.
Hoffmann, Hartmut. "Buchkunst und Königstum im Ottonischen und Frühsalischen Reich." Schriften der Monumenta Germaniae Historica, 30, no. 1. Stuttgart: A. Hiersemann, 1986, p. 101, n. 20.
Gerchow, Jan. Das Jahrtausend der Mönche: Kloster Welt Werden, 799-1803. Cologne: Wienand, 1999, p. 362, no. 60 (fol. 2v).
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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