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The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
This book of hours was written in German in Vienna, Austria, ca. 1460-65. It is one of a series of manuscripts commissioned at the court of Emperor Frederick III of Austria (1415-1493), some of which were made for his son, Prince Maximilian (1459-1519). The name of the artist is unknown, but due to his connection with these commissions, he is known as the Master of the Maximilian Schoolbooks. Unfortunately, only three of the original sixteen full-page, richly painted miniatures remain in this manuscript, but ten of the missing folios have been identified. Nine cuttings are in the Musée Bonnat, Bayonne, France (inv. nr. 1244-1252), and one cutting is in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Dudley P. Allen Fund Accession 1959.40). Other related manuscripts include Vienna, Nationalbibliothek Codicies 2368, 2617, and 2289.
Written in hybrid Gothic bookhand with some cursive aspects, in two sizes
artist: Master of the Maximilian Schoolbooks
Principal cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
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
Bibliotheca Medii Aevi Manuscripta. Pars Altera: Einhundert Handschriften des Mittelalters vom zehnten bis zum fünfzehnten Jahrhunderts 90. Munich: Jacques Rosenthal, 1928, pp. 116-17, no. 196, pl. 20.
Holter, Kurt. "Gotische Buchmalerei im südostdeutschen Raum." Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen 57 (1940): 23-35, no. 2.
Faye, C. U., and W. H. Bond. Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962, p. 200, no. 578.
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, figs. 19-21 (fols. 13v, 66v, 76v)
Bulletin Codicologique. Scriptorium 26 (1972): 130-246; no. 402.
Hamburger, Jeffrey. "Bosch's Conjuror: An Attack on Magic and Sacramental Heresy." Simiolus 14, no. 1 (1984): 4-23, no. 41.
Cermann, Regina. Katalog der dutschprachigen illustrierten Handschriften des Mittelalters 5. Munich: Veröffentlichung der Kommission für deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2002, pp. 28-32.
Pfändtner, Karl-Georg. "The Long-Lost Cuttings of a Fifteenth-Century Austrian Prayerbook (W.764) in the Walters Art Museum." Journal of the Walters Art Museum 64 (2005): 103-8.
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.
Vienna, Austria
Ca. 1460 CE
book
Non-original Binding
Rebound by Abigail Quandt, Walters Art Museum, 1985, with white goatskin over wooden boards and two woven clasps with metal fittings; previous binding eighteenth-century green silk over heavy pasteboard (now housed separately)
The primary language in this manuscript is German, Middle High (ca.1050-1500). The secondary language of this manuscript is Latin.
Vienna, Austria, ca. 1460-65, with illuminations by the Master of the Maximilian Schoolbooks (probably commissioned by a member of the court of Emperor Frederick III of Austria [1415-1493] for his son Prince Maximilian [1459-1519] due to its similarity to other manuscripts made for him)
Bernard Quaritch, London, 1910
C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, November 28, 1912
Jacques Rosenthal, Munich, 1928
Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, purchased from H. P. Krauss, New York, 1959
Museum purchase, January 1959
Vienna, Austria
Ca. 1460 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is German, Middle High (ca.1050-1500). The secondary language of this manuscript is Latin.
Vienna, Austria, ca. 1460-65, with illuminations by the Master of the Maximilian Schoolbooks (probably commissioned by a member of the court of Emperor Frederick III of Austria [1415-1493] for his son Prince Maximilian [1459-1519] due to its similarity to other manuscripts made for him)
Bernard Quaritch, London, 1910
C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, November 28, 1912
Jacques Rosenthal, Munich, 1928
Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, purchased from H. P. Krauss, New York, 1959
Museum purchase, January 1959
This book of hours was written in German in Vienna, Austria, ca. 1460-65. It is one of a series of manuscripts commissioned at the court of Emperor Frederick III of Austria (1415-1493), some of which were made for his son, Prince Maximilian (1459-1519). The name of the artist is unknown, but due to his connection with these commissions, he is known as the Master of the Maximilian Schoolbooks. Unfortunately, only three of the original sixteen full-page, richly painted miniatures remain in this manuscript, but ten of the missing folios have been identified. Nine cuttings are in the Musée Bonnat, Bayonne, France (inv. nr. 1244-1252), and one cutting is in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Dudley P. Allen Fund Accession 1959.40). Other related manuscripts include Vienna, Nationalbibliothek Codicies 2368, 2617, and 2289.
Written in hybrid Gothic bookhand with some cursive aspects, in two sizes
artist: Master of the Maximilian Schoolbooks
Principal cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
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
Bibliotheca Medii Aevi Manuscripta. Pars Altera: Einhundert Handschriften des Mittelalters vom zehnten bis zum fünfzehnten Jahrhunderts 90. Munich: Jacques Rosenthal, 1928, pp. 116-17, no. 196, pl. 20.
Holter, Kurt. "Gotische Buchmalerei im südostdeutschen Raum." Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen 57 (1940): 23-35, no. 2.
Faye, C. U., and W. H. Bond. Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962, p. 200, no. 578.
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, figs. 19-21 (fols. 13v, 66v, 76v)
Bulletin Codicologique. Scriptorium 26 (1972): 130-246; no. 402.
Hamburger, Jeffrey. "Bosch's Conjuror: An Attack on Magic and Sacramental Heresy." Simiolus 14, no. 1 (1984): 4-23, no. 41.
Cermann, Regina. Katalog der dutschprachigen illustrierten Handschriften des Mittelalters 5. Munich: Veröffentlichung der Kommission für deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2002, pp. 28-32.
Pfändtner, Karl-Georg. "The Long-Lost Cuttings of a Fifteenth-Century Austrian Prayerbook (W.764) in the Walters Art Museum." Journal of the Walters Art Museum 64 (2005): 103-8.
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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