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.
Originally part of an Antiphonary created in Germany in the early fourteenth century, these two nonconsecutive folios were saved for their large and ornate historiated initials. Stylistically, the images are close to the "Legendarium" of the Abbey of Heiligen Kreuz in Regensburg, and these leaves have therefore been attributed to that region as well. Other folios from this same manuscript survive in several collections: New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, Ms. M.870 (1-3), the Los Angeles County Museum (no manuscript information on file), Stockholm, National Museum (Erickson Foundation, Med. 1-4), and in the collection of Philippe Verdier in Montreal. One of the New York leaves has the name "Gerwich" inscribed beneath a historiated initial, and this has been understood by scholars to be the name of the artist. As all of the surviving initials are by the same hand, the Walters initials may be attributed to Gerwich as well.
Incomplete; fol. 754Ar-v: the recto begins with the last words of an unknown antiphon (...uid jacet. Gloria patri et filio et spiritu sancto), continues with directions and hymns for saints honored after Christmas, and ends imperfectly on the verso with a hymn for the circumcision (peccata mundi...); fol. 754Br-v: begins imperfectly with the end to a hymn to St. Peter (...pastor ovium princeps Apostolorum), continues with a hymn to Simon Peter, which ends on the verso imperfectly (et animam meam pono...)
Liturgical Gothic bookhand with rubrics in a smaller slightly less formal version of the same script; opening word in a majuscule display script in colored inks
Two historiated initials (7.4 cm x 9.3 cm) in blue, red, green, and white against burnished gold grounds, with red and blue pen flourishes extending into margin; enlarged capitals (1.5 cm to 7 cm) in red or blue with pen decoration in the opposite color; rubrics in red; text in black ink
?: Gerwirch (artist)
Cataloger: Dutschke, Consuelo
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Noel, William
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Davis, Lisa Fagin
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
Faye, C. U. and W. H. Bond. Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York, 1962, p. 199, no. 570.
Miner, Dorothy. "Since de Ricci - Western Illuminated Manuscripts Acquired since 1934: A Report in Two Parts: Part 1." Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 29-30 (1966): pp. 68-103, at pp. 87-91, figs. 15, 16.
Stones, Alison, and John Steyaert. Medieval Illumination, Glass and Sculpture in Minnesota Collections. Minneapolis: University Gallery, University of Minnesota, 1978, p. 28.
Nordenfalk, Carl. Bokmalningar fran medeltid och renassans i Nationalmusei samlingar: en konstbok fran Nationalmuseum. Stockholm: Raben & Sjogren, 1979, p. 54.
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.
Regensburg, Germany
Early 14th century CE
leaves
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Created in the Regensburg region of Germany in the early fourteenth century
Dominican convent of the Holy Cross, Regensburg; sold in 1876
Purchase, S & A.P. Fund, R. Stora, New York, March 1955
Regensburg, Germany
Early 14th century CE
leaves
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Created in the Regensburg region of Germany in the early fourteenth century
Dominican convent of the Holy Cross, Regensburg; sold in 1876
Purchase, S & A.P. Fund, R. Stora, New York, March 1955
Originally part of an Antiphonary created in Germany in the early fourteenth century, these two nonconsecutive folios were saved for their large and ornate historiated initials. Stylistically, the images are close to the "Legendarium" of the Abbey of Heiligen Kreuz in Regensburg, and these leaves have therefore been attributed to that region as well. Other folios from this same manuscript survive in several collections: New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, Ms. M.870 (1-3), the Los Angeles County Museum (no manuscript information on file), Stockholm, National Museum (Erickson Foundation, Med. 1-4), and in the collection of Philippe Verdier in Montreal. One of the New York leaves has the name "Gerwich" inscribed beneath a historiated initial, and this has been understood by scholars to be the name of the artist. As all of the surviving initials are by the same hand, the Walters initials may be attributed to Gerwich as well.
Incomplete; fol. 754Ar-v: the recto begins with the last words of an unknown antiphon (...uid jacet. Gloria patri et filio et spiritu sancto), continues with directions and hymns for saints honored after Christmas, and ends imperfectly on the verso with a hymn for the circumcision (peccata mundi...); fol. 754Br-v: begins imperfectly with the end to a hymn to St. Peter (...pastor ovium princeps Apostolorum), continues with a hymn to Simon Peter, which ends on the verso imperfectly (et animam meam pono...)
Liturgical Gothic bookhand with rubrics in a smaller slightly less formal version of the same script; opening word in a majuscule display script in colored inks
Two historiated initials (7.4 cm x 9.3 cm) in blue, red, green, and white against burnished gold grounds, with red and blue pen flourishes extending into margin; enlarged capitals (1.5 cm to 7 cm) in red or blue with pen decoration in the opposite color; rubrics in red; text in black ink
?: Gerwirch (artist)
Cataloger: Dutschke, Consuelo
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Noel, William
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Davis, Lisa Fagin
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
Faye, C. U. and W. H. Bond. Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York, 1962, p. 199, no. 570.
Miner, Dorothy. "Since de Ricci - Western Illuminated Manuscripts Acquired since 1934: A Report in Two Parts: Part 1." Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 29-30 (1966): pp. 68-103, at pp. 87-91, figs. 15, 16.
Stones, Alison, and John Steyaert. Medieval Illumination, Glass and Sculpture in Minnesota Collections. Minneapolis: University Gallery, University of Minnesota, 1978, p. 28.
Nordenfalk, Carl. Bokmalningar fran medeltid och renassans i Nationalmusei samlingar: en konstbok fran Nationalmuseum. Stockholm: Raben & Sjogren, 1979, p. 54.
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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