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 supplement to the Beaupré Antiphonary, volume I (W.759) was produced ca. 1475-1500, but also includes eighteenth-century additions. These are supplemental musical settings of various feasts. Please see the contents for a detailed description of each supplemental notated text.
W.762 is the only extant example of an appended supplement of the type cited in the summary description for all three complementary lost volumes auctioned in 1863, in each entitled "Supplement pour les Responses et Anttiennes, qui ne se trouvent point dans ce Livre"
Fifteenth-century leaves written in textura formata; eighteenth-century portion written in regularly formed Roman script
One illuminated initial of Roman capital "H" in liquid gold on red ground; flourished initials of two types, last quarter of the fifteenth century, found at openings of responsories, antiphons, versicles, hymns, and hymn verses: Cadels in dark brown, stroked in red, flourished in brown, one exception in blue (fol. 13v), featuring floral motifs and inscriptions, usually on banderole wound around dark brown thin pole in center; inscription format is analogous to scribe's name "dominus" Johannes Doecken, 1466-1467, in Gradual, Ghent, St.-Jacques; trefoil terminal flourishes beginning on fol. 30v (also used in catchwords beginning on fol. 37v); caricatured profiles facing left on fols. 30v, 35v, and 39r; fol. 35v features two heads on ascenders of "H," head with a belled cap, a red flourish retreating from the mouth; second type of flourished initials are in irregular alteration with cadels, red and blue letters with flourishes in brown and red respectively, tonary numbers "i" to "8" roughly inscribed inside letters in brown ink, passim; painted initials, one red and one blue, eighteenth-century Roman capitals in alternating red and blue, at all text divisions, height of text line; male profiles along left side of large, well-executed cadels, precedents found in first volume this would have supplemented (W.759)
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbold, Rebekah
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Brown, Emily
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbold, Rebekah
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Schuele, Allyson
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Cockerell, Sydney Carlisle. “LXXXIII. Antiphoner of the Cistercian Abbey of Beaupré, near Grammont.” In A Descriptive Catalogue of Twenty Illuminated Manuscripts Nos. LXXV to XCIV…in the Collection of Henry Yates Thompson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1907; pp. 55-74.
Van den Gheyn, J. "L'antipohnaire de l'abbaye de Beaupré près Grammont." Handelingen van de Oudheid- en Geschiedkundige Kring van Audenarde 2 (1908-1909): 195-200; pp. 195-200.
Cockerell, Sydney Carlisle, and Edward Fairbrother Strange. Catalogue of Miniatures, Leaves, and Cuttings from Illuminated Manuscripts. Exhibition Catalogue: Victoria and Albert Museum. London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1923; p. 11.
De Ricci, Seymour, and W. J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 2. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935; p. 1688, cat. no. 4.
Boeckler, Albert. Abendländische Miniaturen bis zum Ausgang der romanischen Zeit. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter and Co., 1938; pp. 51-52.
Loomis, Roger S., and Laura H. Loomis. Arthurian Legends in the Middle Ages. New York: Oxford University Press, 1938; p. 92.
Miner, Dorothy. "The Antiphonary of Beaupré." Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 9/8 (1957): 3-5; pp. 3-5.
Faye, Christopher U. and William Henry Bond. Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962; p. 199, nos. 574, 577.
Dearden, J.S. "John Ruskin, the Collector: With a Catalogue of the Illuminated and Other Manuscripts Formerly in His Collection." The Library 21/2 (1966): 124-154; pp. 135, 136, 153.
Stones, M. Alison. "Illumination of the French Prose Lancelot in Flanders, Belgium, and Paris, 1250-1340." Ph.D. diss., University of London, 1970-1971; pp. 85, 111, 236-237, 244, 265 (n. 6).
Dearden, J.S. "Portrait of a Bibliophile XVI: John Ruskin, 1819-1900." The Book Collector 21 (1972): 203-213; p. 203.
Dearden, J.S. "Bulletin codicologique." Scriptorium 27 (1973); pp. 123 (cat. no. 79).
Glorieux, Therese. "Provenances monastiques des manuscrits medievaux des anciens pays -bas meridionaux de la iv serie a la bibliotheque royale albert ier a bruxelles." Miscellanea codicologica F. Masai Dictata. Vol. 2. Edited by Peter Cockshaw (Les Publications de Scriptorium, 8, 1979) 559-575; cat. nos. 19, 39.
"Abbaye de Beaupré à Grimminge." Monasticon Belge 7, Province de flandre orientale. Vol. 3. Liège: Abbaye de Maredsous, 1980; pp. 309-310, 314.
Hauck, Alice H.R. "John Ruskin's Uses of Illuminated Manuscripts: The Case of the Beaupré Antiphonary." Arts Magazine 56 (1981): 79-83; pp. 79-83.
Plotzek, Joachim M. Die Handschriften der Sammlung Ludwig. Vol. 2. Cologne: Schniitgen-Museum der Stadt Köln, 1982; pp. 70, 80.
Hauck, Alice H.R. "John Ruskin's Use of Illuminated Manuscripts and Their Impact on His Theories of Art and Society." Ph.D. Diss., Johns Hopkins University, 1983; pp. 60-61, 72-73, 76-77.
Calkins, Robert G. Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983; pp. 234-242, 248.
Büttner, F.O. Imitatio Pietatis: Motive der christlichen Ikonographie als Modelle zur Verähnilichung. Berlin: Gebrüder Mann Verlag, 1983; pp. 135, 206.
Thomson, James. C. Music Through the Renaissance. Dubuque: W.C. Brown Publications, 1984; pp. 54, 55, 60.
Gaspar, Camille and Frédéric Lyna. Les principaux manuscrits à peintures de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique. Brussels: Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, 1987; p. 199.
Randall, Lilian M.C. "From Cîteaux Onwards: Cistercian-Related Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. In Studies in Cistercian Art and Architecture. Vol. 3. Edited by Meredith P. Lilich, 111-136. Kalamazzo, Michigan: Cistercian Publications, 1989; p. 113.
Stones, M. Alison. "Madame Marie's Picture-Book: A Precursor of Flemish Painting Around 1400." In Flanders in a European Perspective: Manuscript Illumination around 1400 in Flanders and Abroad. Proceedings of the International Colloquium, Louvain. Edited by Maurits Smeyers and Bert Cardon, 429-443. Leuven: Peeters, 1995; pp. 429-443.
Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 3, Belgium, 1250-1530. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1997; pp. 26-56, cat. no. 219.
Bennett, Adelaide. "Continuity and Change in the Religious Book Culture of the Lowlands in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries." In Medieval Mastery: Book Illumination from Charlemagne to Charles the Bold (800-1475). Edited by William Noel and Lee Preedy, 166-179. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2002; p. 178.
De Hamel, Christopher. "Book in the Church." In In Medieval Mastery: Book Illumination from Charlemagne to Charles the Bold (800-1475). Edited by William Noel and Lee Preedy, 46-55. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2002; 50 (fig. 4), 51.
Gummlich, Johanna Christine. Bildproduktion und Kontemplation.: Ein Überblick über die Kölner Buchmalerei in der Gotik unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Kreuzigungsdarstellung. Weimar: Verlag und Datenbank fur Geisteswissenschaften, 2003; p. 128, 132.
Greenia, George D. "The Bigger the Book: On Oversize Medieval Manuscripts." Belgisch tijdschrift voor philologie en geschiedenis 83/3 (2005): 723-745; p. 743.
Hunt, Elizabeth Moore. Illuminating the Border of French and Flemish Manuscripts, 1270–1310. London: Routledge, 2006; p. 180 (n. 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.
Hainaut
Ca. 1475-1500 CE
book
Non-original Binding
Rebound in England after 1904, crimson morocco, 5-compartment spine, gilt title reading, "ANTIPH. ECCLE. S. MAR. BELLO PRATO/ II SUPP./MS"; edges are partially painted in a faded blue
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is French, Middle (ca.1400-1600).
Created in Hainaut ca. 1475-1500, under Abbess Jacquemine Hendricx at the Cistercian abbey of Sainte-Marie of Beaupré at Grimmage as supplement for earlier manuscript
Abbess Angéline de Lossy
John Ruskin, ca. 1850, England
Arthur Severn
Henry Yates Thompson, 1902, his bookplate, his sale, London, Sotheby's, June 22, 1921, lot 67, Pls. 4-6
Bernard Quaritch, London bookseller
Sir A. Chester Beatty, his sale, London, Sotheby's, June 7, 1932
Spanish Art Gallery, London, after 1932
William Randolph Hearst, San Simeon, California, before 1951
Walters Art Museum, January 1957, gift of the Hearst Foundation
Hainaut
Ca. 1475-1500 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is French, Middle (ca.1400-1600).
Created in Hainaut ca. 1475-1500, under Abbess Jacquemine Hendricx at the Cistercian abbey of Sainte-Marie of Beaupré at Grimmage as supplement for earlier manuscript
Abbess Angéline de Lossy
John Ruskin, ca. 1850, England
Arthur Severn
Henry Yates Thompson, 1902, his bookplate, his sale, London, Sotheby's, June 22, 1921, lot 67, Pls. 4-6
Bernard Quaritch, London bookseller
Sir A. Chester Beatty, his sale, London, Sotheby's, June 7, 1932
Spanish Art Gallery, London, after 1932
William Randolph Hearst, San Simeon, California, before 1951
Walters Art Museum, January 1957, gift of the Hearst Foundation
This supplement to the Beaupré Antiphonary, volume I (W.759) was produced ca. 1475-1500, but also includes eighteenth-century additions. These are supplemental musical settings of various feasts. Please see the contents for a detailed description of each supplemental notated text.
W.762 is the only extant example of an appended supplement of the type cited in the summary description for all three complementary lost volumes auctioned in 1863, in each entitled "Supplement pour les Responses et Anttiennes, qui ne se trouvent point dans ce Livre"
Fifteenth-century leaves written in textura formata; eighteenth-century portion written in regularly formed Roman script
One illuminated initial of Roman capital "H" in liquid gold on red ground; flourished initials of two types, last quarter of the fifteenth century, found at openings of responsories, antiphons, versicles, hymns, and hymn verses: Cadels in dark brown, stroked in red, flourished in brown, one exception in blue (fol. 13v), featuring floral motifs and inscriptions, usually on banderole wound around dark brown thin pole in center; inscription format is analogous to scribe's name "dominus" Johannes Doecken, 1466-1467, in Gradual, Ghent, St.-Jacques; trefoil terminal flourishes beginning on fol. 30v (also used in catchwords beginning on fol. 37v); caricatured profiles facing left on fols. 30v, 35v, and 39r; fol. 35v features two heads on ascenders of "H," head with a belled cap, a red flourish retreating from the mouth; second type of flourished initials are in irregular alteration with cadels, red and blue letters with flourishes in brown and red respectively, tonary numbers "i" to "8" roughly inscribed inside letters in brown ink, passim; painted initials, one red and one blue, eighteenth-century Roman capitals in alternating red and blue, at all text divisions, height of text line; male profiles along left side of large, well-executed cadels, precedents found in first volume this would have supplemented (W.759)
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbold, Rebekah
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Brown, Emily
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbold, Rebekah
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Schuele, Allyson
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Cockerell, Sydney Carlisle. “LXXXIII. Antiphoner of the Cistercian Abbey of Beaupré, near Grammont.” In A Descriptive Catalogue of Twenty Illuminated Manuscripts Nos. LXXV to XCIV…in the Collection of Henry Yates Thompson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1907; pp. 55-74.
Van den Gheyn, J. "L'antipohnaire de l'abbaye de Beaupré près Grammont." Handelingen van de Oudheid- en Geschiedkundige Kring van Audenarde 2 (1908-1909): 195-200; pp. 195-200.
Cockerell, Sydney Carlisle, and Edward Fairbrother Strange. Catalogue of Miniatures, Leaves, and Cuttings from Illuminated Manuscripts. Exhibition Catalogue: Victoria and Albert Museum. London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1923; p. 11.
De Ricci, Seymour, and W. J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 2. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935; p. 1688, cat. no. 4.
Boeckler, Albert. Abendländische Miniaturen bis zum Ausgang der romanischen Zeit. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter and Co., 1938; pp. 51-52.
Loomis, Roger S., and Laura H. Loomis. Arthurian Legends in the Middle Ages. New York: Oxford University Press, 1938; p. 92.
Miner, Dorothy. "The Antiphonary of Beaupré." Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 9/8 (1957): 3-5; pp. 3-5.
Faye, Christopher U. and William Henry Bond. Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962; p. 199, nos. 574, 577.
Dearden, J.S. "John Ruskin, the Collector: With a Catalogue of the Illuminated and Other Manuscripts Formerly in His Collection." The Library 21/2 (1966): 124-154; pp. 135, 136, 153.
Stones, M. Alison. "Illumination of the French Prose Lancelot in Flanders, Belgium, and Paris, 1250-1340." Ph.D. diss., University of London, 1970-1971; pp. 85, 111, 236-237, 244, 265 (n. 6).
Dearden, J.S. "Portrait of a Bibliophile XVI: John Ruskin, 1819-1900." The Book Collector 21 (1972): 203-213; p. 203.
Dearden, J.S. "Bulletin codicologique." Scriptorium 27 (1973); pp. 123 (cat. no. 79).
Glorieux, Therese. "Provenances monastiques des manuscrits medievaux des anciens pays -bas meridionaux de la iv serie a la bibliotheque royale albert ier a bruxelles." Miscellanea codicologica F. Masai Dictata. Vol. 2. Edited by Peter Cockshaw (Les Publications de Scriptorium, 8, 1979) 559-575; cat. nos. 19, 39.
"Abbaye de Beaupré à Grimminge." Monasticon Belge 7, Province de flandre orientale. Vol. 3. Liège: Abbaye de Maredsous, 1980; pp. 309-310, 314.
Hauck, Alice H.R. "John Ruskin's Uses of Illuminated Manuscripts: The Case of the Beaupré Antiphonary." Arts Magazine 56 (1981): 79-83; pp. 79-83.
Plotzek, Joachim M. Die Handschriften der Sammlung Ludwig. Vol. 2. Cologne: Schniitgen-Museum der Stadt Köln, 1982; pp. 70, 80.
Hauck, Alice H.R. "John Ruskin's Use of Illuminated Manuscripts and Their Impact on His Theories of Art and Society." Ph.D. Diss., Johns Hopkins University, 1983; pp. 60-61, 72-73, 76-77.
Calkins, Robert G. Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983; pp. 234-242, 248.
Büttner, F.O. Imitatio Pietatis: Motive der christlichen Ikonographie als Modelle zur Verähnilichung. Berlin: Gebrüder Mann Verlag, 1983; pp. 135, 206.
Thomson, James. C. Music Through the Renaissance. Dubuque: W.C. Brown Publications, 1984; pp. 54, 55, 60.
Gaspar, Camille and Frédéric Lyna. Les principaux manuscrits à peintures de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique. Brussels: Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, 1987; p. 199.
Randall, Lilian M.C. "From Cîteaux Onwards: Cistercian-Related Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. In Studies in Cistercian Art and Architecture. Vol. 3. Edited by Meredith P. Lilich, 111-136. Kalamazzo, Michigan: Cistercian Publications, 1989; p. 113.
Stones, M. Alison. "Madame Marie's Picture-Book: A Precursor of Flemish Painting Around 1400." In Flanders in a European Perspective: Manuscript Illumination around 1400 in Flanders and Abroad. Proceedings of the International Colloquium, Louvain. Edited by Maurits Smeyers and Bert Cardon, 429-443. Leuven: Peeters, 1995; pp. 429-443.
Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 3, Belgium, 1250-1530. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1997; pp. 26-56, cat. no. 219.
Bennett, Adelaide. "Continuity and Change in the Religious Book Culture of the Lowlands in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries." In Medieval Mastery: Book Illumination from Charlemagne to Charles the Bold (800-1475). Edited by William Noel and Lee Preedy, 166-179. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2002; p. 178.
De Hamel, Christopher. "Book in the Church." In In Medieval Mastery: Book Illumination from Charlemagne to Charles the Bold (800-1475). Edited by William Noel and Lee Preedy, 46-55. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2002; 50 (fig. 4), 51.
Gummlich, Johanna Christine. Bildproduktion und Kontemplation.: Ein Überblick über die Kölner Buchmalerei in der Gotik unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Kreuzigungsdarstellung. Weimar: Verlag und Datenbank fur Geisteswissenschaften, 2003; p. 128, 132.
Greenia, George D. "The Bigger the Book: On Oversize Medieval Manuscripts." Belgisch tijdschrift voor philologie en geschiedenis 83/3 (2005): 723-745; p. 743.
Hunt, Elizabeth Moore. Illuminating the Border of French and Flemish Manuscripts, 1270–1310. London: Routledge, 2006; p. 180 (n. 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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