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 fragmentary Book of Hours was created in Ghent ca. 1300 for the use of a woman with Dominican ties. Although quite a bit of text and imagery is missing, including the calendar and Office of the Dead, this tiny manuscript is lavishly decorated on nearly every page with marginal drolleries and grotesques, making it a rich and charming book even in its fragmentary state.
Textura quadrata
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Schuele, Allyson
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
De Ricci, Seymour, and W. J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935; p. 782, cat. no. 160.
Miner, D. Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1949; cat. no. 49, pl. XXXI.
Randall, Lilian M.C. Images in the Margins of Gothic Manuscripts. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966; p. 38 and passim.
Diringer, David. The Illuminated Book: Its History and Production. London: Faber and Faber, 1967; p. 436, pl. VII-28.
Lane, Barbara Greenhouse. The Development of the Medieval Devotional Figure. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1971, pp.174-5, fig. 196.
Wentersdorf, K.P. "The Symbolic Significance of Figurae Scatologicae in Gothic Manuscripts." In Word, Picture, and Spectacle, edited by C. Davidson, 1-19. Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications of Western Michigan University, 1984; p. 2, fig. 3.
Owens, M.B. "Musical Subjects in the Illumination of Books of Hours from Fifteenth-Century France and Flanders." Ph.D. diss, University of Chicago, 1987: p. 365.
London, Sotheby's, 21 June 1988. Referenced under lot 73.
Wieck, Roger S., L.R. Poos, V. Reinburg, and J. Plummer. Time Sanctified: The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life, exhibition catalogue of the Walters Art Gallery. New York: George Braziller, 1988; pp. 69, 71, 207, cat. no. 78, fig. 49.
London, Sotheby's, 18 June, 1991. Referenced under lot 155.
Lewis, Suzanne. Beyond the Frame: Marginal Figures and Historiated Initials in the Getty Apocalypse. The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 20 (1992): 53-76; p. 75-76 (n. 16 for p. 63).
Epstein, Marc Michael. Dreams of Subversion in Medieval Jewish Art and Literature. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997; p. 128.
Hunt, Elizabeth Moore. Illuminating the Border of French and Flemish Manuscripts, 1270–1310. London: Routledge, 2006; pp. 189, 195.
Wirth, Jean,and Isabelle Engammare. Les marges à drôleries des manuscrits gothiques, 1250-1350. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2008; p. 344.
Leo, Dominic. Images, Texts, and Marginalia in a "Vows of the Peacock" Manuscript (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library MS G24). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Publishers, 2013; p. 344.
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.
Ghent
First decade of the 14th century CE
book
Non-original Binding
French green velvet binding, now mostly worn away, late nineteenth or early twentieth century, and likely by Léon Gruel; boards are thin pasteboard; tightly sewn, with white and green silk endbands; edges gilt; traces of fastener visible in middle of fore-edge on both boards
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Created ca. 1300-10 for Dominican use; style suggests Ghent; kneeling figure of woman before Crucifixion image on fol. 32r suggests a female patron; Flemish origin supported by arms of Flanders, in banner hanging from trumpet fol. 15v, and on shield fol. 116r
Léon Gruel and Robert Engelmann collection, Paris, late nineteenth-early twentieth century, no. 92; their bookplate on front pastedown
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel in 1903
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Ghent
First decade of the 14th century CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Created ca. 1300-10 for Dominican use; style suggests Ghent; kneeling figure of woman before Crucifixion image on fol. 32r suggests a female patron; Flemish origin supported by arms of Flanders, in banner hanging from trumpet fol. 15v, and on shield fol. 116r
Léon Gruel and Robert Engelmann collection, Paris, late nineteenth-early twentieth century, no. 92; their bookplate on front pastedown
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel in 1903
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This fragmentary Book of Hours was created in Ghent ca. 1300 for the use of a woman with Dominican ties. Although quite a bit of text and imagery is missing, including the calendar and Office of the Dead, this tiny manuscript is lavishly decorated on nearly every page with marginal drolleries and grotesques, making it a rich and charming book even in its fragmentary state.
Textura quadrata
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Schuele, Allyson
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
De Ricci, Seymour, and W. J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935; p. 782, cat. no. 160.
Miner, D. Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1949; cat. no. 49, pl. XXXI.
Randall, Lilian M.C. Images in the Margins of Gothic Manuscripts. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966; p. 38 and passim.
Diringer, David. The Illuminated Book: Its History and Production. London: Faber and Faber, 1967; p. 436, pl. VII-28.
Lane, Barbara Greenhouse. The Development of the Medieval Devotional Figure. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1971, pp.174-5, fig. 196.
Wentersdorf, K.P. "The Symbolic Significance of Figurae Scatologicae in Gothic Manuscripts." In Word, Picture, and Spectacle, edited by C. Davidson, 1-19. Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications of Western Michigan University, 1984; p. 2, fig. 3.
Owens, M.B. "Musical Subjects in the Illumination of Books of Hours from Fifteenth-Century France and Flanders." Ph.D. diss, University of Chicago, 1987: p. 365.
London, Sotheby's, 21 June 1988. Referenced under lot 73.
Wieck, Roger S., L.R. Poos, V. Reinburg, and J. Plummer. Time Sanctified: The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life, exhibition catalogue of the Walters Art Gallery. New York: George Braziller, 1988; pp. 69, 71, 207, cat. no. 78, fig. 49.
London, Sotheby's, 18 June, 1991. Referenced under lot 155.
Lewis, Suzanne. Beyond the Frame: Marginal Figures and Historiated Initials in the Getty Apocalypse. The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 20 (1992): 53-76; p. 75-76 (n. 16 for p. 63).
Epstein, Marc Michael. Dreams of Subversion in Medieval Jewish Art and Literature. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997; p. 128.
Hunt, Elizabeth Moore. Illuminating the Border of French and Flemish Manuscripts, 1270–1310. London: Routledge, 2006; pp. 189, 195.
Wirth, Jean,and Isabelle Engammare. Les marges à drôleries des manuscrits gothiques, 1250-1350. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2008; p. 344.
Leo, Dominic. Images, Texts, and Marginalia in a "Vows of the Peacock" Manuscript (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library MS G24). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Publishers, 2013; p. 344.
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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