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 manuscript was made in the nineteenth century, using an extremely fine parchment. It contains the fifty-third chapter of the Book of Isaiah, in English translation. The small book is composed of eight folios written and decorated on the rectos, leaving the versos blank. Script and decoration suggest that the book was conceived to imitate the style of fourteenth- or fifteenth-century French illumination. The creators, Eleanor Taylor and James Slie, signed the book on the title page, and declared their intended revival of this tradition. Each folio is embellished with border decoration showing narratives of Christ's life, as well as zoomorphic and foliate motifs in a palette of blue, red, and gold leaf. The contemporary binding is painted with a coat of arms inscribed with the motto "GANG WARILY" (proceed with caution). Although the manuscript has traditionally been considered to be of English origin, the armorial shield points to a Scottish use.
Imitative Gothic script
Principal cataloger: Noel, William
Principal cataloger: Smith, Kathryn
Cataloger: Valle, Chiara
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Bockrath, Diane
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Izer, Emily
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
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
19th century CE
book
Original Binding
Nineteenth-century white leather binding with gilt edges; upper board decorated with a coat of arms with gold and red undulating stripes, a lion's head and crown; the coat of arms is inscribed with the motto "GANG WARILY" (proceed with caution); the heraldry belongs to the Scottish Drummond clan
The primary language in this manuscript is English.
Made in the nineteenth century by Eleanor Taylor and James Slie; signatures on the title page
Edward Ripley Duggan of Wilsey Rare Books, New York, before 1997
Walters Art Museum, 1997, acquired from Wilsey Rare Books
England
19th century CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is English.
Made in the nineteenth century by Eleanor Taylor and James Slie; signatures on the title page
Edward Ripley Duggan of Wilsey Rare Books, New York, before 1997
Walters Art Museum, 1997, acquired from Wilsey Rare Books
This English manuscript was made in the nineteenth century, using an extremely fine parchment. It contains the fifty-third chapter of the Book of Isaiah, in English translation. The small book is composed of eight folios written and decorated on the rectos, leaving the versos blank. Script and decoration suggest that the book was conceived to imitate the style of fourteenth- or fifteenth-century French illumination. The creators, Eleanor Taylor and James Slie, signed the book on the title page, and declared their intended revival of this tradition. Each folio is embellished with border decoration showing narratives of Christ's life, as well as zoomorphic and foliate motifs in a palette of blue, red, and gold leaf. The contemporary binding is painted with a coat of arms inscribed with the motto "GANG WARILY" (proceed with caution). Although the manuscript has traditionally been considered to be of English origin, the armorial shield points to a Scottish use.
Imitative Gothic script
Principal cataloger: Noel, William
Principal cataloger: Smith, Kathryn
Cataloger: Valle, Chiara
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Bockrath, Diane
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Izer, Emily
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
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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