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.
Antiphons for liturgical feast days: fols. 1r-8r: Feast of the Purification of the Virgin (rubric on fol. 1r, reads, "In festo purificationis beate Marie virginis"); fols. 8r-18r: Feast of the Palms (rubric on fol. 8r, "In die Palmarium ad processionem"); fols. 18r-19v: Liturgy of Good Friday (rubric on fol. 18r, "In die Parasce"); fols. 19v-22v: Visit to the Tomb (rubric on fol. 19v, "In Visitatione Sepulchri"); fols. 22v-27v: Easter (rubric on fol. 22v, "In die sancto"); fols. 28r-30r: Ascension (rubric on fol. 28r, "In die Ascensio"); fols. 30r-31v: Pentecost (rubric on fol. 30r, "In die Penthe"); fols. 31v-35r: Feast of the Holy Trinity (rubric on fol. 31v, "De Sancta et Individua Trinitate"); fols. 35r-40v: the Most Blessed Sacrament (rubric on fol. 35r, "In Die Venerabilis Sacramenti"); fols. 40v-43v: Dedication of the Church (rubric on fol. 40v, "In Dedicatione Ecclesie"); the text is incomplete; fols. 44r-51v: Burial Service; (lost beginning); paper front flyleaves write two prayers in eighteenth-century cursive "Post Te Deum Laudamus" on front flyleaf iii,v, and "In Morte Pashcali" on front flyleaf iv,r; musical notation on front flyleaves ii,v and iii,r, and iv,v
Gothic notation on a five-line staff; each staff has both a C clef and an F clef on its left
One decorated initial (2 staves); foliate ornament at fore-edge on the same folio; rubrics in red; text and music notation in brown ink
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.
Antiphons for liturgical feast days: fols. 1r-8r: Feast of the Purification of the Virgin (rubric on fol. 1r, reads, "In festo purificationis beate Marie virginis"); fols. 8r-18r: Feast of the Palms (rubric on fol. 8r, "In die Palmarium ad processionem"); fols. 18r-19v: Liturgy of Good Friday (rubric on fol. 18r, "In die Parasce"); fols. 19v-22v: Visit to the Tomb (rubric on fol. 19v, "In Visitatione Sepulchri"); fols. 22v-27v: Easter (rubric on fol. 22v, "In die sancto"); fols. 28r-30r: Ascension (rubric on fol. 28r, "In die Ascensio"); fols. 30r-31v: Pentecost (rubric on fol. 30r, "In die Penthe"); fols. 31v-35r: Feast of the Holy Trinity (rubric on fol. 31v, "De Sancta et Individua Trinitate"); fols. 35r-40v: the Most Blessed Sacrament (rubric on fol. 35r, "In Die Venerabilis Sacramenti"); fols. 40v-43v: Dedication of the Church (rubric on fol. 40v, "In Dedicatione Ecclesie"); the text is incomplete; fols. 44r-51v: Burial Service; (lost beginning); paper front flyleaves write two prayers in eighteenth-century cursive "Post Te Deum Laudamus" on front flyleaf iii,v, and "In Morte Pashcali" on front flyleaf iv,r; musical notation on front flyleaves ii,v and iii,r, and iv,v
Gothic notation on a five-line staff; each staff has both a C clef and an F clef on its left
One decorated initial (2 staves); foliate ornament at fore-edge on the same folio; rubrics in red; text and music notation in brown ink
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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