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 Flemish Psalter was produced in the Hainaut region between 1265 and 1275. It was altered for Dominican use through the addition of antiphons in the margins in the late fifteenth century, at which point it was also rebound in its current inscribed leather binding. It was later among the books collected by Johann Anton Ramboux (1790-1866), a German painter and museum curator. The manuscript, which is illuminated throughout with twelve large historiated and inhabited initials, is a strong example of a group of manuscripts produced in the last quarter of the thirteenth century that combined the artistic styles of Hainaut and Liège, other examples including Paris, B.N. Lat. 1077, Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, BBR Ms. IV-1066, and Princeton University Art Museum 57.189.
Angular textura; later addition fol. 1r in rounded textura; marginal additions in irregularly formed textura by several hands
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
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, 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. 770, cat. no. 81.
Oliver, J.H. Gothic Manuscript Illumination in the Diocese of Liège (c. 1250-1350). Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts from the Low Countries, 3. Vol. 2. Leuven: Peeters, 1988; p. 1, 26, 53, 56, 57, 78, 85, 118, 143, 152, 153, 156-158, 160, 161, 213, 229-231, pls. 44, 60.
Oliver, J.H. In beeld geprezen: Miniaturen uit Maaslandse devotieboeken, 1250-1350. Exhibition catalogue, Saint-Truiden, Provincial Museum voor Religuize Kunst. Leuven: Peeters, 1989; cat. no. 10.
Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 3, Belgium, 1250-1530. Baltimore, London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1997; pp. 7-10, cat. no. 215.
Smeyers, Mauritius. Flemish Miniatures from the 8th to the mid-16th Century: The Medieval World on Parchment. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1999; pp. 152 (fig. 61), 153.
Gy, Pierre-Marie. "Bulletin de liturgie." Revue des sciences philosophiques et théologiques 84 (2000): 513-544; p. 520.
Joslin, Mary Coker and Carolyn Coker Joslin Watson. The Egerton Genesis. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001; p. 204.
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.
Hainaut
Ca. 1265-1275 CE
book
Non-original Binding
Rebound in the fifteenth or sixteenth century in Belgium; brown calf over wood boards; blind stamped; vine patterns with beasts framed by inscriptions reading from top left corner, clockwise: "Deus de[di]t/ nobis sua[m] pace[m] et/ post morte[m]/ vita[m] eterna[m] amen"; a second inscription around the panels on the right side read "Deus dedit/ deus abstulerit/ sit nome[n]/ domini benedictu[m]"; one metal clasp detached (housed separately); one knotted fore-edge tab marks the beginning of the Canticles on fol. 97; fragment of an early liturgical manuscript used for front pastedown, and pieces of two different later service books reused as flyleaves
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Likely created in Hainaut ca. 1265-1275
Adapted for Dominican use, late fifteenth century; rebound at this time
Seventeenth-century shelfmark in brown ink, upper left corner of front pastedown: "Ms. 630"
Nineteenth-century inscription in black ink, lower left portion of front pastedown: "7598 Lot
Antoine Ramboux, Cologne, before 1867; ownership stamp, "I. A. Ramboux," appears twice, on top of front pastedown, and on bottom of fol. 1r; sold in Cologne, May 23, 1867
Leo S. Olschki, Florence, early twentieth century; his typed dealer slip
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Olschki before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Hainaut
Ca. 1265-1275 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Likely created in Hainaut ca. 1265-1275
Adapted for Dominican use, late fifteenth century; rebound at this time
Seventeenth-century shelfmark in brown ink, upper left corner of front pastedown: "Ms. 630"
Nineteenth-century inscription in black ink, lower left portion of front pastedown: "7598 Lot
Antoine Ramboux, Cologne, before 1867; ownership stamp, "I. A. Ramboux," appears twice, on top of front pastedown, and on bottom of fol. 1r; sold in Cologne, May 23, 1867
Leo S. Olschki, Florence, early twentieth century; his typed dealer slip
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Olschki before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This Flemish Psalter was produced in the Hainaut region between 1265 and 1275. It was altered for Dominican use through the addition of antiphons in the margins in the late fifteenth century, at which point it was also rebound in its current inscribed leather binding. It was later among the books collected by Johann Anton Ramboux (1790-1866), a German painter and museum curator. The manuscript, which is illuminated throughout with twelve large historiated and inhabited initials, is a strong example of a group of manuscripts produced in the last quarter of the thirteenth century that combined the artistic styles of Hainaut and Liège, other examples including Paris, B.N. Lat. 1077, Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, BBR Ms. IV-1066, and Princeton University Art Museum 57.189.
Angular textura; later addition fol. 1r in rounded textura; marginal additions in irregularly formed textura by several hands
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
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, 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. 770, cat. no. 81.
Oliver, J.H. Gothic Manuscript Illumination in the Diocese of Liège (c. 1250-1350). Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts from the Low Countries, 3. Vol. 2. Leuven: Peeters, 1988; p. 1, 26, 53, 56, 57, 78, 85, 118, 143, 152, 153, 156-158, 160, 161, 213, 229-231, pls. 44, 60.
Oliver, J.H. In beeld geprezen: Miniaturen uit Maaslandse devotieboeken, 1250-1350. Exhibition catalogue, Saint-Truiden, Provincial Museum voor Religuize Kunst. Leuven: Peeters, 1989; cat. no. 10.
Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 3, Belgium, 1250-1530. Baltimore, London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1997; pp. 7-10, cat. no. 215.
Smeyers, Mauritius. Flemish Miniatures from the 8th to the mid-16th Century: The Medieval World on Parchment. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1999; pp. 152 (fig. 61), 153.
Gy, Pierre-Marie. "Bulletin de liturgie." Revue des sciences philosophiques et théologiques 84 (2000): 513-544; p. 520.
Joslin, Mary Coker and Carolyn Coker Joslin Watson. The Egerton Genesis. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001; p. 204.
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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