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 Dutch book of hours was made for a female patron, possibly pictured on fol. 109r, in the mid-fifteenth century. Originally richly illuminated by the workshop of the Master of Catherine of Cleves, the manuscript now lacks all of its full-page miniatures, although the eight surviving historiated initials speak to its original grandeur. Its rebinding in the seventeenth century resulted in the loss of several folios and the reordering of many of the texts. While the catalog description here remains faithful to the order of the texts as they appear today, an attempt has been made within the individual parts to reconstruct the original layout of the manuscript.
Ownership notes on fol. 240v added in the seventeenth century
artist: Master of Catherine of Cleves workshop
Principal cataloger: Marrow, James
Principal cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Cataloger: Dutschke, Consuelo
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Valle, Chiara
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Boot, Christine
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Pizzinato, Riccardo
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Nederlandse Primitieven uit Nederlands Particulier Bezit. Laren: Singer Museum, 1961, p. 28, cat. no. 128, fig. 48.
Boon, K.G. "Nieuwe gegevens over de Meester van Katharina van Kleef en zijn atelier," Bulletin van de Koninklijke Nederlandsche Oudheidkundige Bond, 6th series, 17, 1964, cols. 241-254.
Randall, Lilian. "Pea-Pods and Molluscs from the Master of Catherine of Cleves Workshop." Apollo 100 (1974): pp. 372-379.
Baumeister, A. "Die Borduren des Stundenbuches der Katharina van Lochorst." Westfalen 54 (1976): pp. 23-44.
Calkins, R.G. "Parallels between Incunabula and Manuscripts from the Circle of the Master of Catherine of Cleves." Oud Holland 92 (1978): pp. 137-160.
Scillia, D.G. "A Late Work from the Circle of the Master of Catherine of Cleves: The 'Seven Days of Creation' from the Bible of Henri de Cherauz (Brussels, B.R. Ms. 9158-67)." Oud Holland 92 (1978): p. 4.
Wieck, Roger S. Time Sanctified: The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life. New York: George Braziller, 1988, pp. 100-101, fig. 69 (fol. 113r), p. 221, cat. no. 110
Booton, Diane. "Manuscript Sleuthing: Discoveries of a Curator." The Walters Monthly Bulletin 48, no. 2 (1995): p. 4.
Korteweg, Anne S. "Der Meister der Katharina von Kleve: Einzelgenie oder Arbeitsgemeinschaft?" In Das Stundenbuch der Katharina von Kleve: MS M.917 und MS M.945 The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. Gütersloh: Faksimile Verlag, 2009, pp. 251-286.
Priem, Rob, et al. The Hours of Catherine of Cleves: Devotion, Demons and Daily Life in the Fifteenth Century. New York: The Morgan Library & Museum, 2009, p. 46 (fol. 192r), pp. 196-197, cat. no. 28 (fol. 113r)
Bagnoli, Martina. The Medieval World. Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, 2011, pp. 117 (fol. 113r), 193.
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.
Northern Netherlands
Middle of the 15th century CE
book
Non-original Binding
Seventeenth-century Dutch brown calf with gilt over pasteboard; marbled pastedowns
The primary language in this manuscript is Dutch; Flemish.
Made for unidentified fifteenth-century patron
Member of the Sashers family
Van der Feer Lader, no. 83
Ph. J. van Alfen, Doorn, Netherlands
Sale, Sotheby's, December 6, 1971, lot 54
Walters Art Museum purchase, 1971
Northern Netherlands
Middle of the 15th century CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Dutch; Flemish.
Made for unidentified fifteenth-century patron
Member of the Sashers family
Van der Feer Lader, no. 83
Ph. J. van Alfen, Doorn, Netherlands
Sale, Sotheby's, December 6, 1971, lot 54
Walters Art Museum purchase, 1971
This Dutch book of hours was made for a female patron, possibly pictured on fol. 109r, in the mid-fifteenth century. Originally richly illuminated by the workshop of the Master of Catherine of Cleves, the manuscript now lacks all of its full-page miniatures, although the eight surviving historiated initials speak to its original grandeur. Its rebinding in the seventeenth century resulted in the loss of several folios and the reordering of many of the texts. While the catalog description here remains faithful to the order of the texts as they appear today, an attempt has been made within the individual parts to reconstruct the original layout of the manuscript.
Ownership notes on fol. 240v added in the seventeenth century
artist: Master of Catherine of Cleves workshop
Principal cataloger: Marrow, James
Principal cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Cataloger: Dutschke, Consuelo
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Valle, Chiara
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Boot, Christine
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Pizzinato, Riccardo
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Nederlandse Primitieven uit Nederlands Particulier Bezit. Laren: Singer Museum, 1961, p. 28, cat. no. 128, fig. 48.
Boon, K.G. "Nieuwe gegevens over de Meester van Katharina van Kleef en zijn atelier," Bulletin van de Koninklijke Nederlandsche Oudheidkundige Bond, 6th series, 17, 1964, cols. 241-254.
Randall, Lilian. "Pea-Pods and Molluscs from the Master of Catherine of Cleves Workshop." Apollo 100 (1974): pp. 372-379.
Baumeister, A. "Die Borduren des Stundenbuches der Katharina van Lochorst." Westfalen 54 (1976): pp. 23-44.
Calkins, R.G. "Parallels between Incunabula and Manuscripts from the Circle of the Master of Catherine of Cleves." Oud Holland 92 (1978): pp. 137-160.
Scillia, D.G. "A Late Work from the Circle of the Master of Catherine of Cleves: The 'Seven Days of Creation' from the Bible of Henri de Cherauz (Brussels, B.R. Ms. 9158-67)." Oud Holland 92 (1978): p. 4.
Wieck, Roger S. Time Sanctified: The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life. New York: George Braziller, 1988, pp. 100-101, fig. 69 (fol. 113r), p. 221, cat. no. 110
Booton, Diane. "Manuscript Sleuthing: Discoveries of a Curator." The Walters Monthly Bulletin 48, no. 2 (1995): p. 4.
Korteweg, Anne S. "Der Meister der Katharina von Kleve: Einzelgenie oder Arbeitsgemeinschaft?" In Das Stundenbuch der Katharina von Kleve: MS M.917 und MS M.945 The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. Gütersloh: Faksimile Verlag, 2009, pp. 251-286.
Priem, Rob, et al. The Hours of Catherine of Cleves: Devotion, Demons and Daily Life in the Fifteenth Century. New York: The Morgan Library & Museum, 2009, p. 46 (fol. 192r), pp. 196-197, cat. no. 28 (fol. 113r)
Bagnoli, Martina. The Medieval World. Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, 2011, pp. 117 (fol. 113r), 193.
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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