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.
Illustrated Books of Hours in Greek are extremely rare. This example is also of interest because its miniatures show interaction between the Late Byzantine and Gothic artistic styles. It may have been copied on the island of Crete, which in the fifteenth century was ruled by Venice.
One hand throughout; the scribe did not sign this manuscript, but he can be identified, through palaeographic comparison, with a Nicholas who copied the present Ms. Vatic. gr. 1143 in 1449 CE
Principal cataloger: Parpulov, Georgi R.
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Joyal, Stephanie
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Parpulov, G.R. “A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum.” Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004): pp. 71-189, at pp. 126-131
Ševčenko, N.P. "The Walters' Horologion." Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004): pp. 45-59
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.
Eastern Mediterranean
Mid-15th century CE
book
Non-original Binding
Greek, ca. sixteenth-seventeenth century; green patterned silk (now very worn and soiled) over flush-grooved wooden boards; paper pastedowns (probably added later); raised endbands; flat spine; traces of clasps on the back cover
The primary language in this manuscript is Greek, Ancient (to 1453).
Henry Walters, Baltimore, by purchase before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Eastern Mediterranean
Mid-15th century CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Greek, Ancient (to 1453).
Henry Walters, Baltimore, by purchase before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Illustrated Books of Hours in Greek are extremely rare. This example is also of interest because its miniatures show interaction between the Late Byzantine and Gothic artistic styles. It may have been copied on the island of Crete, which in the fifteenth century was ruled by Venice.
One hand throughout; the scribe did not sign this manuscript, but he can be identified, through palaeographic comparison, with a Nicholas who copied the present Ms. Vatic. gr. 1143 in 1449 CE
Principal cataloger: Parpulov, Georgi R.
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Joyal, Stephanie
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Parpulov, G.R. “A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum.” Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004): pp. 71-189, at pp. 126-131
Ševčenko, N.P. "The Walters' Horologion." Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004): pp. 45-59
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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