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 Gallican Psalter was created in the diocese of Constance, Southern Germany, in the first half of the thirteenth century. The psalms, which originally had an eight-part liturgical division, have been badly misbound, and approximately half of them are lost entirely. Extensively illuminated with over 100 historiated, inhabited, and decorated initials, the manuscript is impressive even in its fragmentary state. The saints found in the litany help locate the manuscript to Constance, and also suggest Cistercian use. That the manuscript was well used is attested to by late thirteenth-century additions of antiphons in the margins, as well as an added German meditation on the Passion of the same period.
Compact scholastic script; different, slightly later hand than rest of manuscript
Cataloger: Dutschke, Consuelo
Cataloger: Sciacca, Christine
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Davis, Lisa Fagin
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Hamburger, Jeffrey
Contributor: Klemm, Elizabeth
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. 769, cat. no. 79.
Baltimore Museum of Art. 2,000 Years of Calligraphy: A Three-Part Exhibition. Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield, 1965, 1972, cat. no. 26.
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.
Constance, Germany
First half of the 13th century CE
book
Non-original Binding
Late nineteenth-or early twentieth-century binding by Léon Gruel, Paris; red velvet over millboard(?); page edges are gilded
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Created in the first half of the thirteenth century for use in the diocese of Constance in Southern Germany; saints in litany suggest was possibly Cistercian
Léon Gruel and Robert Engelmann collection, Paris, late nineteenth century, no. 394
Léon Gruel collection, Paris, before 1905, no. 2
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel, 1905
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Constance, Germany
First half of the 13th century CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Created in the first half of the thirteenth century for use in the diocese of Constance in Southern Germany; saints in litany suggest was possibly Cistercian
Léon Gruel and Robert Engelmann collection, Paris, late nineteenth century, no. 394
Léon Gruel collection, Paris, before 1905, no. 2
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel, 1905
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This Gallican Psalter was created in the diocese of Constance, Southern Germany, in the first half of the thirteenth century. The psalms, which originally had an eight-part liturgical division, have been badly misbound, and approximately half of them are lost entirely. Extensively illuminated with over 100 historiated, inhabited, and decorated initials, the manuscript is impressive even in its fragmentary state. The saints found in the litany help locate the manuscript to Constance, and also suggest Cistercian use. That the manuscript was well used is attested to by late thirteenth-century additions of antiphons in the margins, as well as an added German meditation on the Passion of the same period.
Compact scholastic script; different, slightly later hand than rest of manuscript
Cataloger: Dutschke, Consuelo
Cataloger: Sciacca, Christine
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Davis, Lisa Fagin
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Hamburger, Jeffrey
Contributor: Klemm, Elizabeth
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. 769, cat. no. 79.
Baltimore Museum of Art. 2,000 Years of Calligraphy: A Three-Part Exhibition. Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield, 1965, 1972, cat. no. 26.
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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