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 leaf originally belonged to a mid-thirteenth-century gradual from southern Germany, or possibly the Seitenstetten region of Austria. The pages contain the fragmentary hymns for the feasts of St. Lawrence and the Assumption of the Virgin. The illumination introduces the latter, in the form of a large historiated initial "G," and depicts the death of the Virgin surrounded by apostles in the lower portion of the initial, while revealing her assumption into Heaven above. Christ appears within a rainbow mandorla and holds a small figure representing Mary's soul, an image that is based on Byzantine iconography. Originally the verso of the leaf, the image was fortuitously preserved due to the recto having been re-used as an account book cover in the early seventeenth century, the title of which is still visible.
Gothic bookhand for main text; rubric and first word in a majuscule display script; following lines in a minuscule display script; a seventeenth-century hand has written a title in Gothic script over the musical notation during its use as an account book
Cataloger: Dutschke, Consuelo
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Sciacca, Christine
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
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.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
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. 572.
"Bulletin Codicologique." Scriptorium 26 (1972): 130-246, p. 28, no. 402.
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):68-103, p. 87, fig. 14.
Huglo, Michel. "Souvenirs 'enchantes' de la Walters Art Gallery." Journal of the Walters Art Gallery, 54 (1996):1-8, p. 3, fig. 3.
Palazzo, Eric. "Voir et entendre les chants de la messe," Codex Aquilarensis, 28, 2012, p. 219-230.
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.
South Germany (or the Seitenstetten region of Austria?)
Mid-13th century CE
leaf
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Originally part of a gradual, South Germany, or possibly the Seitenstetten region of Austria, mid-thirteenth century
Page re-used as a book wrapper, Germany
In collection of L'Art Ancien, Zurich, before 1955
Museum purchase, S & A.P. Fund, 1955
South Germany (or the Seitenstetten region of Austria?)
Mid-13th century CE
leaf
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Originally part of a gradual, South Germany, or possibly the Seitenstetten region of Austria, mid-thirteenth century
Page re-used as a book wrapper, Germany
In collection of L'Art Ancien, Zurich, before 1955
Museum purchase, S & A.P. Fund, 1955
This leaf originally belonged to a mid-thirteenth-century gradual from southern Germany, or possibly the Seitenstetten region of Austria. The pages contain the fragmentary hymns for the feasts of St. Lawrence and the Assumption of the Virgin. The illumination introduces the latter, in the form of a large historiated initial "G," and depicts the death of the Virgin surrounded by apostles in the lower portion of the initial, while revealing her assumption into Heaven above. Christ appears within a rainbow mandorla and holds a small figure representing Mary's soul, an image that is based on Byzantine iconography. Originally the verso of the leaf, the image was fortuitously preserved due to the recto having been re-used as an account book cover in the early seventeenth century, the title of which is still visible.
Gothic bookhand for main text; rubric and first word in a majuscule display script; following lines in a minuscule display script; a seventeenth-century hand has written a title in Gothic script over the musical notation during its use as an account book
Cataloger: Dutschke, Consuelo
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Sciacca, Christine
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
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.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
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. 572.
"Bulletin Codicologique." Scriptorium 26 (1972): 130-246, p. 28, no. 402.
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):68-103, p. 87, fig. 14.
Huglo, Michel. "Souvenirs 'enchantes' de la Walters Art Gallery." Journal of the Walters Art Gallery, 54 (1996):1-8, p. 3, fig. 3.
Palazzo, Eric. "Voir et entendre les chants de la messe," Codex Aquilarensis, 28, 2012, p. 219-230.
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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