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 pocket-size Bible was created around the middle of the thirteenth century in England. It contains the Vulgate text of the Old and New Testaments, arranged in order and divided into chapters. Such Bibles, designed for individual rather than institutional use, began to be created on a large scale during the thirteenth century, especially in Paris. This manuscript is illuminated with a large number of small historiated initials, and also includes a somewhat later image of the Three Living and the Three Dead, a popular scene based on a French poem of the same century.
Gothic textura by several different hands; characters just over 1 mm in height
Principal cataloger: Noel, William
Principal cataloger: Smith, Kathryn
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
De Ricci, Seymour, and W.J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. 2 vols. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935, p. 76, no. 46.
Walters Art Gallery. Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1949, no. 45.
Diringer, David. The Illuminated Book, Its History and Production. New York: Philosophical Library, 1958, p. 384.
Walters Art Gallery. 2,000 Years of Calligraphy. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1965, no. 25.
Daneu Lattanzi, Angela. Lineamenti di storia della miniatura in Sicilia. Florence: L.S. Olschki, 1966, pp. 102-103.
Berkowitz, David. In Remembrance of Creation: Evolution of Art and Scholarship in the Medieval and Renaissance Bible. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 1968, p. 41, no. 70.
Bologna, Ferdinando. I pittori alla corte angioina di Napoli, 1266-1414, e un riesame dell’arte nell’età fridericiana. Rome: U. Bozzi, 1969, pl. I-22.
Sandler, Lucy Freeman. The Psalter of Robert de Lisle in the British Library. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.
Sandler, Lucy Freeman. Gothic Manuscripts, 1285-1385. 2 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986, p. 73, no. 18.
Chihaia, Pavel. Immortalité et Décomposition dans l’art du Moyen Age. Madrid: Fondation Culturelle Roumaine, 1988, fig. 12, fols. 1-2.
Ormrod, W.M, and Phillip Lindley, eds. The Black Death in England, 1348-1500. Stamford, CT: Paul Watkins, 1996, fol. 2.
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.
England
Ca. 1260 CE; miniature additions ca. 1290-1300 CE
book
Non-original Binding
Eighteenth-century gilt red morocco, with tooled spine and title "Biblia Latina M.ss sur Velin;" gilt edges; marbled paper pastedowns
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Created in England, ca. 1260 CE
Ca. 1300, England, embellished with images of Three Lving and Three Dead
Owned by "Mr. Hulinx Borum fro S. Moris," England, sixteenth-century
Seventeenth-century owner's notes in Latin
France, eighteenth-century, rebound, with unidentified owner's bookplate on inner board: D + G with crown above, "Faire bien chercher mieux"
Henry Walters, Baltimore, before 1931; by purchase from Léon Gruel, Paris
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
England
Ca. 1260 CE; miniature additions ca. 1290-1300 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Created in England, ca. 1260 CE
Ca. 1300, England, embellished with images of Three Lving and Three Dead
Owned by "Mr. Hulinx Borum fro S. Moris," England, sixteenth-century
Seventeenth-century owner's notes in Latin
France, eighteenth-century, rebound, with unidentified owner's bookplate on inner board: D + G with crown above, "Faire bien chercher mieux"
Henry Walters, Baltimore, before 1931; by purchase from Léon Gruel, Paris
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This pocket-size Bible was created around the middle of the thirteenth century in England. It contains the Vulgate text of the Old and New Testaments, arranged in order and divided into chapters. Such Bibles, designed for individual rather than institutional use, began to be created on a large scale during the thirteenth century, especially in Paris. This manuscript is illuminated with a large number of small historiated initials, and also includes a somewhat later image of the Three Living and the Three Dead, a popular scene based on a French poem of the same century.
Gothic textura by several different hands; characters just over 1 mm in height
Principal cataloger: Noel, William
Principal cataloger: Smith, Kathryn
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
De Ricci, Seymour, and W.J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. 2 vols. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935, p. 76, no. 46.
Walters Art Gallery. Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1949, no. 45.
Diringer, David. The Illuminated Book, Its History and Production. New York: Philosophical Library, 1958, p. 384.
Walters Art Gallery. 2,000 Years of Calligraphy. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1965, no. 25.
Daneu Lattanzi, Angela. Lineamenti di storia della miniatura in Sicilia. Florence: L.S. Olschki, 1966, pp. 102-103.
Berkowitz, David. In Remembrance of Creation: Evolution of Art and Scholarship in the Medieval and Renaissance Bible. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 1968, p. 41, no. 70.
Bologna, Ferdinando. I pittori alla corte angioina di Napoli, 1266-1414, e un riesame dell’arte nell’età fridericiana. Rome: U. Bozzi, 1969, pl. I-22.
Sandler, Lucy Freeman. The Psalter of Robert de Lisle in the British Library. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.
Sandler, Lucy Freeman. Gothic Manuscripts, 1285-1385. 2 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986, p. 73, no. 18.
Chihaia, Pavel. Immortalité et Décomposition dans l’art du Moyen Age. Madrid: Fondation Culturelle Roumaine, 1988, fig. 12, fols. 1-2.
Ormrod, W.M, and Phillip Lindley, eds. The Black Death in England, 1348-1500. Stamford, CT: Paul Watkins, 1996, fol. 2.
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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