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 collection of sermons was completed during the first quarter of the thirteenth century for Cistercian use in northeastern France. The book features selected sermons of Gilbert of Hoyland, Bernard of Clairvaux, and sermons attributed to Walter of Châtillon; it is this compilation of texts that is most indicative of its Cistercian ownership. This is confirmed by the ex libris inscription of Royaumont Abbey in the diocese of Beauvais, established in 1228 by Louis IX of France. While the book does not boast more than flourished initials in the text, there are nine marginal illustrations, mostly appearing in the text of Gilbert of Hoyland.
Occasional contemporary corrections, mostly appearing in margins, in black ink
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbold, Rebekah
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Wallace, Susan
Contributor: Bucca, Lauren
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Schuele, Allyson
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
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. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935; p. 822, cat. no. 304.
Stegmüller, Friedrich. Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi. Vol. 3. Madrid: Instituto Francisco Suárez, 1950; cat. no. 2493.
Munby, Alan Noel Latimer. Phillipps Studies. 5 vols. Cambridge: Cambirdge University Press, 1951-1960; vol. 3, p. 147.
Munby, Alan Noel Latimer. The Phillipps Manuscripts: Catalogues librorum manuscriptorum in bibliotheca D. Thomae Phillipps, Bt. Vol. 3. London: Cambridge University Press, 1968; p. 147.
Lillich, Meredith P. Studies in Cistercian Art and Architecture, Vol. 3. Collegeville, MN: Cistercian Publications, 1982; p. 129, Appendix B.
Randall, Lilian M. C. "From Cîteaux Onwards: Cistercian-Related Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery." In Studies in Cistercian Art and Architecture 3 (1987): 111-36; p. 129, cat. no. 3, fig. 9.
Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 1, France, 875-1420. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1989; pp. 30-32, cat. no. 13.
Sharpe, Richard. A Handlist of the Latin writers of Great Britain: and Ireland before 1540. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1997; pp. xxvi, 145.
Volpera, Federica. "Medicina e miniatura. Codici genovesi di età gotica." Studi di storia dell'arte 17 (2006): 9-22; p. 20.
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.
Northeastern France
Ca. 1200-1215 CE
book
Original Binding
Contemporary binding; tawed skin, perhaps sheepskin, over thick oak boards with beveled outer edges; naturally rounded spine with abrasions and tears; pattern of holes at center and corners of upper and lower boards is evidence of metal furnishings; original fastenings for two straps and side-pins missing; book box: second half of the twentieth century
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Northeastern France, first quarter of the thirteenth century; completed for a Cistercian foundation
Northeastern France, ca. 1300, Cistercian abbey of Royaumont ; labeled in black ink as ex-libris of this abbey on fol. 109r, lines 10 and 12: "Liber S[an]c[t]e Marie de regali Monte" (provenance)
Ecouen, Royaumont, thirteenth or fourteenth century; written in dark brown ink on a torn fragment of paper added to upper right-hand corner of front pastedown: "Ecouen / Roya[umont]" (Ecouen was the post-Revolutionary collecting point of manuscripts from Royaumont) (provenance)
Charles Chardin, Paris, Feb. 8, 1824, bookseller and collector, Cat.
Sir Thomas Phillipps, Ms. 786, "786" written in black ink on front pastedown and over erased number in lower margin of fol. 1r below Phillipps's stamped design of lion rampant lettered "Sir T P Middle Hill"
Bernard Quaritch Ltd., London bookseller, Jun. 10, 1896, lot 75; purchased from Sotheby's
Unidentified penciled notation "F 930" on front pastedown
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Wilfred M. Voynich, London, between 1910 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Northeastern France
Ca. 1200-1215 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Northeastern France, first quarter of the thirteenth century; completed for a Cistercian foundation
Northeastern France, ca. 1300, Cistercian abbey of Royaumont ; labeled in black ink as ex-libris of this abbey on fol. 109r, lines 10 and 12: "Liber S[an]c[t]e Marie de regali Monte" (provenance)
Ecouen, Royaumont, thirteenth or fourteenth century; written in dark brown ink on a torn fragment of paper added to upper right-hand corner of front pastedown: "Ecouen / Roya[umont]" (Ecouen was the post-Revolutionary collecting point of manuscripts from Royaumont) (provenance)
Charles Chardin, Paris, Feb. 8, 1824, bookseller and collector, Cat.
Sir Thomas Phillipps, Ms. 786, "786" written in black ink on front pastedown and over erased number in lower margin of fol. 1r below Phillipps's stamped design of lion rampant lettered "Sir T P Middle Hill"
Bernard Quaritch Ltd., London bookseller, Jun. 10, 1896, lot 75; purchased from Sotheby's
Unidentified penciled notation "F 930" on front pastedown
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Wilfred M. Voynich, London, between 1910 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This collection of sermons was completed during the first quarter of the thirteenth century for Cistercian use in northeastern France. The book features selected sermons of Gilbert of Hoyland, Bernard of Clairvaux, and sermons attributed to Walter of Châtillon; it is this compilation of texts that is most indicative of its Cistercian ownership. This is confirmed by the ex libris inscription of Royaumont Abbey in the diocese of Beauvais, established in 1228 by Louis IX of France. While the book does not boast more than flourished initials in the text, there are nine marginal illustrations, mostly appearing in the text of Gilbert of Hoyland.
Occasional contemporary corrections, mostly appearing in margins, in black ink
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbold, Rebekah
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Wallace, Susan
Contributor: Bucca, Lauren
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Schuele, Allyson
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
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. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935; p. 822, cat. no. 304.
Stegmüller, Friedrich. Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi. Vol. 3. Madrid: Instituto Francisco Suárez, 1950; cat. no. 2493.
Munby, Alan Noel Latimer. Phillipps Studies. 5 vols. Cambridge: Cambirdge University Press, 1951-1960; vol. 3, p. 147.
Munby, Alan Noel Latimer. The Phillipps Manuscripts: Catalogues librorum manuscriptorum in bibliotheca D. Thomae Phillipps, Bt. Vol. 3. London: Cambridge University Press, 1968; p. 147.
Lillich, Meredith P. Studies in Cistercian Art and Architecture, Vol. 3. Collegeville, MN: Cistercian Publications, 1982; p. 129, Appendix B.
Randall, Lilian M. C. "From Cîteaux Onwards: Cistercian-Related Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery." In Studies in Cistercian Art and Architecture 3 (1987): 111-36; p. 129, cat. no. 3, fig. 9.
Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 1, France, 875-1420. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1989; pp. 30-32, cat. no. 13.
Sharpe, Richard. A Handlist of the Latin writers of Great Britain: and Ireland before 1540. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1997; pp. xxvi, 145.
Volpera, Federica. "Medicina e miniatura. Codici genovesi di età gotica." Studi di storia dell'arte 17 (2006): 9-22; p. 20.
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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