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 manuscript, which was made at or for the Cistercian monastery at Himmerode, Germany, is a compilation of several texts written in the late twelfth or early thirteenth century. The first and third texts, William of St. Thierry's Life of St. Bernard and Hugh of St. Victor's On the lamentations of Jeremiah, are contemporary but were written separately and then bound together. A third text, Jacques de Vitry's Life of St. Marie d'Oignies, was inserted between them at a later time. Several additional texts were added to blank folios in the thirteenth century, most notably a letter by Hildegard of Bingen on the final folio. Many different hands can be identified throughout the manuscript, sometimes changing every few lines; this variety of scribes is especially evident in the third text. Although the book contains no pictorial illuminations, large, ornate decorated initials, drawn in bright green and red, announce the beginning of each chapter.
Written in pre-Gothic bookhand
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Dutschke, Consuelo
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Hamburger, Jeffrey
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Hildegardis Abbatissa, Epistulae. Paris: J.-P. Migne, 1855.
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. 820, no. 385.
Schneider, Ambrosius. "Skriptorium und Bibliothek der Cistercienserabtei Himmerod im Rheinland: zur Geschichte klösterlichen Bibliothekswesens im Mittelalter." Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 35 (1952-3): 155-205.
Morson, John. "The Life of St. Bernard: Manuscripts and Recensions in Collectanea Ordinis Cisterciensium." Reformatorum 19 (1957): 54, 58, no. 2.
Schneider, Ambrosius. Skriptorium und Bibliothek der Abtei Himmerod: ein Beitrag zur Geistesgeschichte des Eifelklosters. Himmerod, Germany: Himmerod-Drucke, 1974, p. 30, no. 37.
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.
Himmerode, Germany
Late 12th century / early 13th century CE
book
Non-original Binding
Red velvet over sixteenth-century(?) boards, with a Limoges champlevé enamel crucifix applied to the upper board; bound by Léon Gruel, Paris, late nineteenth/early twentieth century
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Owned by, and possibly made at, the Cistercian abbey of Himmerode
Josef von Görres collection, Germany, 1802/3-1902
Görres collection sale, Munich, 1902, Catal.libr.mss. lot 60, p. 12
Gruel and Engelmann collection, Paris, 1902-1903
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel, June 9, 1903
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Himmerode, Germany
Late 12th century / early 13th century CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Owned by, and possibly made at, the Cistercian abbey of Himmerode
Josef von Görres collection, Germany, 1802/3-1902
Görres collection sale, Munich, 1902, Catal.libr.mss. lot 60, p. 12
Gruel and Engelmann collection, Paris, 1902-1903
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel, June 9, 1903
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
This manuscript, which was made at or for the Cistercian monastery at Himmerode, Germany, is a compilation of several texts written in the late twelfth or early thirteenth century. The first and third texts, William of St. Thierry's Life of St. Bernard and Hugh of St. Victor's On the lamentations of Jeremiah, are contemporary but were written separately and then bound together. A third text, Jacques de Vitry's Life of St. Marie d'Oignies, was inserted between them at a later time. Several additional texts were added to blank folios in the thirteenth century, most notably a letter by Hildegard of Bingen on the final folio. Many different hands can be identified throughout the manuscript, sometimes changing every few lines; this variety of scribes is especially evident in the third text. Although the book contains no pictorial illuminations, large, ornate decorated initials, drawn in bright green and red, announce the beginning of each chapter.
Written in pre-Gothic bookhand
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Dutschke, Consuelo
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Hamburger, Jeffrey
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Hildegardis Abbatissa, Epistulae. Paris: J.-P. Migne, 1855.
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. 820, no. 385.
Schneider, Ambrosius. "Skriptorium und Bibliothek der Cistercienserabtei Himmerod im Rheinland: zur Geschichte klösterlichen Bibliothekswesens im Mittelalter." Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 35 (1952-3): 155-205.
Morson, John. "The Life of St. Bernard: Manuscripts and Recensions in Collectanea Ordinis Cisterciensium." Reformatorum 19 (1957): 54, 58, no. 2.
Schneider, Ambrosius. Skriptorium und Bibliothek der Abtei Himmerod: ein Beitrag zur Geistesgeschichte des Eifelklosters. Himmerod, Germany: Himmerod-Drucke, 1974, p. 30, no. 37.
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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