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, probably made in the second half of the fourteenth century, bears witness to a long and lively history of use and collection. It contains a prose Latin history of the fall of Troy written in 1287 by Guido delle Colonne, whose account was enormously popular for several centuries after its composition and influenced, directly or in translation, the works of Chaucer and Shakespeare. This particular manuscript was likely made at a university for scholarly use, and its margins are filled with erudite notes from the fifteenth century. Many different individuals owned and signed the manuscript in its first centuries; one even wrote a Latin poem on drunkenness in one of its blank final pages. The manuscript eventually found its way into the hands of the notorious manuscript collector, Sir Thomas Phillipps.
An English cursive hand, probably fifteenth-century
Cataloger: Kauffman, Nicholas
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Evers, Jennifer
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Thorpe, Thomas. Catalogue of upwards of fourteen hundred manuscripts, upon vellum and paper, collected in this and other countries, forming, it is presumed, the most important and interesting collection ever offered for sale, particularly rich in English, Irish and Scotish history, from the conquest to the present time. London, 1836. no. 293.
De Ricci, Seymour. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935, p. 841, no. 484.
Griffin, Nathaniel E., ed. Historia Destructionis Troiae. Cambridge, MA: Medieval Academy of America, 1936. A critical edition of Guido's Latin text, with brief discussion of manuscripts (not W.81) in introduction.
Phillipps, Thomas. Catalogus Manuscriptorum in Bibliotheca D. Thomae Phillipps, Bart. Middle Hill, 1837. Facsimile edition published as The Phillipps Manuscripts by The Holland Press, London, 1968. no. 9409.
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.
England
Second half of 14th century CE
book
Non-original Binding
Nineteenth-century binding, English; light brown calf with narrow decorative roll around edges and on spine; title stamped and gilt on spine; multicolored, comb-marbled pastedowns
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Created in England, second half of fourteenth century; perhaps made in a university scriptorium
Waler dei Klerla
No. 38 in a fifteenth-century
Homofredus Taylor, sixteenth century
Robertus Nebbus, sixteenth century
Tailerus, sixteenth century
Edward Conway
Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, London, early nineteenth century; Thorpe's notation on upper right verso of first flyleaf; marked "Thorpe 1836" in pencil on center of the page
Sir Thomas Phillipps, bought in 1836 from Thorpe; cat. no. 9409; bookplate removed, but number remains on spine; "Phillipps Ms." written in pencil at the center of the verso of the first flyleaf, with number erased
Sold at auction
Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
England
Second half of 14th century CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Created in England, second half of fourteenth century; perhaps made in a university scriptorium
Waler dei Klerla
No. 38 in a fifteenth-century
Homofredus Taylor, sixteenth century
Robertus Nebbus, sixteenth century
Tailerus, sixteenth century
Edward Conway
Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, London, early nineteenth century; Thorpe's notation on upper right verso of first flyleaf; marked "Thorpe 1836" in pencil on center of the page
Sir Thomas Phillipps, bought in 1836 from Thorpe; cat. no. 9409; bookplate removed, but number remains on spine; "Phillipps Ms." written in pencil at the center of the verso of the first flyleaf, with number erased
Sold at auction
Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This manuscript, probably made in the second half of the fourteenth century, bears witness to a long and lively history of use and collection. It contains a prose Latin history of the fall of Troy written in 1287 by Guido delle Colonne, whose account was enormously popular for several centuries after its composition and influenced, directly or in translation, the works of Chaucer and Shakespeare. This particular manuscript was likely made at a university for scholarly use, and its margins are filled with erudite notes from the fifteenth century. Many different individuals owned and signed the manuscript in its first centuries; one even wrote a Latin poem on drunkenness in one of its blank final pages. The manuscript eventually found its way into the hands of the notorious manuscript collector, Sir Thomas Phillipps.
An English cursive hand, probably fifteenth-century
Cataloger: Kauffman, Nicholas
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Evers, Jennifer
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Thorpe, Thomas. Catalogue of upwards of fourteen hundred manuscripts, upon vellum and paper, collected in this and other countries, forming, it is presumed, the most important and interesting collection ever offered for sale, particularly rich in English, Irish and Scotish history, from the conquest to the present time. London, 1836. no. 293.
De Ricci, Seymour. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935, p. 841, no. 484.
Griffin, Nathaniel E., ed. Historia Destructionis Troiae. Cambridge, MA: Medieval Academy of America, 1936. A critical edition of Guido's Latin text, with brief discussion of manuscripts (not W.81) in introduction.
Phillipps, Thomas. Catalogus Manuscriptorum in Bibliotheca D. Thomae Phillipps, Bart. Middle Hill, 1837. Facsimile edition published as The Phillipps Manuscripts by The Holland Press, London, 1968. no. 9409.
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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