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 English Psalter was made for an East Anglian patron at the beginning of the fourteenth century. The original Psalter contains a calendar for adapted Sarum use, the Psalms, Canticles, Litany, and Office of the Dead, with additional prayers in a humanist hand added by a fifteenth-century owner. The text is incomplete; about two dozen leaves have been removed, resulting in missing historiated initials and several partial Psalms and Canticles. Three extant historiated initials, accompanied by incipits in gold, stand out among a multitude of smaller painted and flourished initials. The majority of the text is written in an accomplished textualis prescissa. This Psalter has stylistic and textual connections to the Gorleston Psalter (British Library, Add. Ms. 49622) and the Ormesby Psalter (Bodleian Library, Douce Ms. 366), placing it firmly within the tradition of East Anglian manuscript production in the first half of the fourteenth century.
Humanistic script
Principal cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Principal cataloger: Noel, William
Principal cataloger: Smith, Kathryn
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Dutschke, Consuelo
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Grollemond, Larisa
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Randall, Lilian M. C. "The Art of Calligraphy." The Walters Art Gallery Bulletin 2 (1983): p. 7.
Folsom, Rose. The Calligraphers' Dictionary. London: Thames and Hudson, 1990, pp. 110, 120 (fol. 163v). .
Burin, Elizabeth. "Medieval Writing and Calligraphy." The Walters Monthly Bulletin 11 (1993): pp. 4-5 (fol. 86v).
Mellinkoff, Ruth. Outcasts: Signs of Otherness in Northern European Art of the Late Middle Ages. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993, vol. 2, fig. I.21 (fol. 56).
Weiss, Susan Forscher. "Singing Along with Guido and Friends: Music in Manuscripts." The Walters Monthly Bulletin 10 (1996): p. 5 (fol.100).
Randall, Lilian M.C. "Sense and Sensibilities in an Early Fourteenth-Century Psalter from East Anglia." In Tributes to Lucy Freeman Sandler: Studies in Illuminated Manuscripts, edited by Kathryn A. Smith and Carol H. Krinsky. Turnhout: Harvey Miller, 2007, pp. 219-33.
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.
East Anglia, England
First half of the 14th century CE
book
Non-original Binding
Rebound ca. 1900 by Rivière and Son, London; probably unshaped millboard covered in dark blue leather
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Made early fourteenth century
Purchased by Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. at London sale: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, March 19, 1909, no. 289
Wilfred M. Voynich collection, London, from Quaritch, before 1912
Acquired by Henry Walters, Baltimore, from Voynich on January 19, 1912
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
East Anglia, England
First half of the 14th century CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Made early fourteenth century
Purchased by Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. at London sale: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, March 19, 1909, no. 289
Wilfred M. Voynich collection, London, from Quaritch, before 1912
Acquired by Henry Walters, Baltimore, from Voynich on January 19, 1912
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This English Psalter was made for an East Anglian patron at the beginning of the fourteenth century. The original Psalter contains a calendar for adapted Sarum use, the Psalms, Canticles, Litany, and Office of the Dead, with additional prayers in a humanist hand added by a fifteenth-century owner. The text is incomplete; about two dozen leaves have been removed, resulting in missing historiated initials and several partial Psalms and Canticles. Three extant historiated initials, accompanied by incipits in gold, stand out among a multitude of smaller painted and flourished initials. The majority of the text is written in an accomplished textualis prescissa. This Psalter has stylistic and textual connections to the Gorleston Psalter (British Library, Add. Ms. 49622) and the Ormesby Psalter (Bodleian Library, Douce Ms. 366), placing it firmly within the tradition of East Anglian manuscript production in the first half of the fourteenth century.
Humanistic script
Principal cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Principal cataloger: Noel, William
Principal cataloger: Smith, Kathryn
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Dutschke, Consuelo
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Grollemond, Larisa
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Randall, Lilian M. C. "The Art of Calligraphy." The Walters Art Gallery Bulletin 2 (1983): p. 7.
Folsom, Rose. The Calligraphers' Dictionary. London: Thames and Hudson, 1990, pp. 110, 120 (fol. 163v). .
Burin, Elizabeth. "Medieval Writing and Calligraphy." The Walters Monthly Bulletin 11 (1993): pp. 4-5 (fol. 86v).
Mellinkoff, Ruth. Outcasts: Signs of Otherness in Northern European Art of the Late Middle Ages. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993, vol. 2, fig. I.21 (fol. 56).
Weiss, Susan Forscher. "Singing Along with Guido and Friends: Music in Manuscripts." The Walters Monthly Bulletin 10 (1996): p. 5 (fol.100).
Randall, Lilian M.C. "Sense and Sensibilities in an Early Fourteenth-Century Psalter from East Anglia." In Tributes to Lucy Freeman Sandler: Studies in Illuminated Manuscripts, edited by Kathryn A. Smith and Carol H. Krinsky. Turnhout: Harvey Miller, 2007, pp. 219-33.
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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