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, written at the Cistercian abbey of Himmerode in Germany in the early thirteenth century, is one of twenty-two surviving Latin copies of the Speculum virginum, or Mirror for virgins. Attributed to Conrad of Hirsau, the text was written in the first half of the twelfth century as a guide for nuns, offering them theological lessons in the form of a hypothetical conversation between a teacher, Peregrinus, and his student, Theodora. The twelve illustrations in the manuscript portray the protagonists as well as the mystical visions and diagrams they discuss in the text. The large, expressive pen drawings bring the text to life and are an excellent example of German art of this period.
Written in 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: Davis, Lisa Fagin
Contributor: Dutschke, Consuelo
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Hamburger, Jeffrey
Contributor: Klemm, Elizabeth
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Schneider, Ambrosius. "Skriptorium und Bibliothek der Cistercienserabtei Himmerod im Rheinland." Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 35 (1952): 155-205, no. 27.
Hauck, Karl. Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum e Bibliotheca Goerresiana. Munich: Druck v. G. Schuh and Cie, 1902, p. 14, no. 76.
Miner, Dorothy. "Lecture on Himmerod and its Manuscripts." Bulletin of the Walters Art Gallery 24 (1972): 1, 4.
Religious Art of the Western World, March 23-May 25, 1958. Dallas: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1958, no. 263.
Schneider, Ambrosius. Skriptorium und Bibliothek der Abtei Himmerod: ein Beitrag zur Geistesgeschichte des Eifelklosters. Himmerod, Germany: Himmerod-Drucke, 1974, p. 29, no. 32.
Curschmann, Michael. "Imagined Exegesis: Text and Picture in the Exegetical Works of Rupert of Deutz, Honorius Augustodunensis, and Gerhoch of Reichersberg." Traditio 44 (1988): 145-169, no. 53.
Jacobs, Emile. "Die Handschriftensammlung Joseph Gorres." Zentralblatt fur Bibliothekswesen 23 (1906): 192, no. 2.
Seyfarth, Jutta. Speculum Virginum. Turnhout, Belgium: Rypographi Brepol Editores Pontofivii, 1990, pp. 71-72.
Watson, Arthur. "A Manuscript of the Speculum Virginium in the Walters Art Gallery." Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 10 (1947): 61-74, figs. 2-6, 8-11, 13-15.
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. 822, no. 393.
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
First quarter of the 13th century CE
book
Non-original Binding
Sixteenth- or seventeenth-century boards covered in red velvet and embellished with a thirteenth-century Limoges champlevé enamel crucifix by Léon Gruel in the late nineteenth century
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Written in the early thirteenth century, most likely at the Cistercian abbey of Himmerode in Wittlich, Germany; was there at least by the fifteenth century
Josef von Görres collection, Germany, nineteenth century until Görres collection sale, Munich, 1902, Catal.libr.mss. no. 76
Julien Chappée, Le Mans and Paris, purchased from Görres collection in 1902, lot 76, p. 14
Gruel and Engelmann collection, Paris, 1903, no. 88
Acquired by Henry Walters, Baltimore, from Gruel and Engelmann on June 9, 1903
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Himmerode, Germany
First quarter of the 13th century CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Written in the early thirteenth century, most likely at the Cistercian abbey of Himmerode in Wittlich, Germany; was there at least by the fifteenth century
Josef von Görres collection, Germany, nineteenth century until Görres collection sale, Munich, 1902, Catal.libr.mss. no. 76
Julien Chappée, Le Mans and Paris, purchased from Görres collection in 1902, lot 76, p. 14
Gruel and Engelmann collection, Paris, 1903, no. 88
Acquired by Henry Walters, Baltimore, from Gruel and Engelmann on June 9, 1903
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
This manuscript, written at the Cistercian abbey of Himmerode in Germany in the early thirteenth century, is one of twenty-two surviving Latin copies of the Speculum virginum, or Mirror for virgins. Attributed to Conrad of Hirsau, the text was written in the first half of the twelfth century as a guide for nuns, offering them theological lessons in the form of a hypothetical conversation between a teacher, Peregrinus, and his student, Theodora. The twelve illustrations in the manuscript portray the protagonists as well as the mystical visions and diagrams they discuss in the text. The large, expressive pen drawings bring the text to life and are an excellent example of German art of this period.
Written in 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: Davis, Lisa Fagin
Contributor: Dutschke, Consuelo
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Hamburger, Jeffrey
Contributor: Klemm, Elizabeth
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Schneider, Ambrosius. "Skriptorium und Bibliothek der Cistercienserabtei Himmerod im Rheinland." Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 35 (1952): 155-205, no. 27.
Hauck, Karl. Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum e Bibliotheca Goerresiana. Munich: Druck v. G. Schuh and Cie, 1902, p. 14, no. 76.
Miner, Dorothy. "Lecture on Himmerod and its Manuscripts." Bulletin of the Walters Art Gallery 24 (1972): 1, 4.
Religious Art of the Western World, March 23-May 25, 1958. Dallas: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1958, no. 263.
Schneider, Ambrosius. Skriptorium und Bibliothek der Abtei Himmerod: ein Beitrag zur Geistesgeschichte des Eifelklosters. Himmerod, Germany: Himmerod-Drucke, 1974, p. 29, no. 32.
Curschmann, Michael. "Imagined Exegesis: Text and Picture in the Exegetical Works of Rupert of Deutz, Honorius Augustodunensis, and Gerhoch of Reichersberg." Traditio 44 (1988): 145-169, no. 53.
Jacobs, Emile. "Die Handschriftensammlung Joseph Gorres." Zentralblatt fur Bibliothekswesen 23 (1906): 192, no. 2.
Seyfarth, Jutta. Speculum Virginum. Turnhout, Belgium: Rypographi Brepol Editores Pontofivii, 1990, pp. 71-72.
Watson, Arthur. "A Manuscript of the Speculum Virginium in the Walters Art Gallery." Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 10 (1947): 61-74, figs. 2-6, 8-11, 13-15.
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. 822, no. 393.
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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