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 manuscript contains liturgical music to be sung during processions. It is exceptional because of its "album" format (10 x 14.5 cm), which is in part the result of a severe cropping of the folios. The book was made in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century in Germany. Its continued use is evident from the seventeenth- or eighteenth-century addition of paper folios containing prayers and music. Music is written in Gothic notation on three five-line staves per folio. The first folio is illuminated with a foliate initial for the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin.
Gothic notation on a five-line staff; each staff has both a C clef and an F clef on its left
Cataloger: Valle, Chiara
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Hamburger, Jeffrey
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Huglo, Michel. "Souvenirs 'enchantés' de la Walters Art Gallery." Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 54 (1996): pp. 1-8.
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.
Germany (Munich?)
Late 15th-early 16th century CE (fols. 1-51); 18th century CE (fols. I-Z)
book
Non-original Binding
Late seventeeth- or eighteenth-century brown leather binding; sides decorated with a border of triple blind fillets; at each corner are impressed three flowers; at the center, a diamond is made with this same tool repeated four times. One of two brass clasps hangs from lower cover; the other is missing.
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Probably made in Germany in the late fifteenth-early sixteenth century
Owned by Margaret W. Hodges in the twentieth century up to 1977; front cover pastedown and note in pencil on front flyleaf ii,r
Walters Art Museum, April 1977, gift of Margaret W. Hodges
Germany (Munich?)
Late 15th-early 16th century CE (fols. 1-51); 18th century CE (fols. I-Z)
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Probably made in Germany in the late fifteenth-early sixteenth century
Owned by Margaret W. Hodges in the twentieth century up to 1977; front cover pastedown and note in pencil on front flyleaf ii,r
Walters Art Museum, April 1977, gift of Margaret W. Hodges
This manuscript contains liturgical music to be sung during processions. It is exceptional because of its "album" format (10 x 14.5 cm), which is in part the result of a severe cropping of the folios. The book was made in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century in Germany. Its continued use is evident from the seventeenth- or eighteenth-century addition of paper folios containing prayers and music. Music is written in Gothic notation on three five-line staves per folio. The first folio is illuminated with a foliate initial for the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin.
Gothic notation on a five-line staff; each staff has both a C clef and an F clef on its left
Cataloger: Valle, Chiara
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Hamburger, Jeffrey
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Huglo, Michel. "Souvenirs 'enchantés' de la Walters Art Gallery." Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 54 (1996): pp. 1-8.
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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