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 small, early Book of Hours dates to the late thirteenth century. It was created for use in Arras, and remained in that region for most of its existence. Although the majority of the book is written in Latin, the calendar is in Old French. The manuscript contains a prefatory cycle of six Passion miniatures, as well as seven extant full-page historiated initials.
Small historiated initial fol. 135r
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: 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. 161.
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. 366.
Wieck, Roger S. Time Sanctified. The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life. New York: George Braziller. 1988, pp. 66, 172, cat. no. 4, fig. 40.
Hemzik, Pamela. "Book of Hours." In Medieval Art in America: Patterns of Collecting, 1800-1940. Exhibition Catalogue. Palmer Museum of Art. Edited by Elizabeth Bradford Smith et al., 80-87. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996; p. 85 (n. 11 for p. 80).
Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 1, France 875-1420. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1997; pp. 113-115, cat. no. 47.
De Beaumanoir, Philippe. Le Roman de la Manekine. Amsterdam: Rodopi Publishers, 1999; p. 39.
Busby, Keith, Terry Nixon, Alison Stones and Lori Walters, eds. Les manuscrits de Chretien de Troyes. Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1993, Vol. 1, pp. 251, 253; Vol. 2, p. 57.
Higgitt, John. The Murthly Hours: Devotion, Literacy, and Luxury in Paris, England, and the Gaelic West. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000; pp. 179, 184.
Noel, William. "Psalter with Calendar, Canticles, Collects, Litany, Office of the Dead, Hours of the Virgin, and the Seven Penitential Psalm." In Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections. Edited by James R. Tanis, 54-56. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001; p. 54, cat. no. 11.
Wolf, Jurgen. "Artus und sein Gefolge: Zur Tradierung des arturischen Romans in Deutschland und Frankreich." In Eine Epoche im Umbruch: Volkssprachliche Literalität 1200-1300. Edited by Christa Bertelsmeier-Kierst and Christopher Young, 2003, 205-220; p. 215.
Hourihane, Colum. Pontius Pilate: Anti-Semitism, and the Passion in Medieval Art. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009; p. 416 (n. 105).
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.
Northeast France (Flanders at the time)
Late 13th century CE
book
Non-original Binding
Early twentieth-century English binding by Rivière & Company, London (binding signed on lower turn-in of front cover); brown leather with blind tooled patterns on covers and spine; gilt title on spine: "HEURES DE LA VIERGE," and below, "MS. DU 13me SIECLE"
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is French, Old (842-ca.1400).
Created in Northeast France
Fragmentary fourteenth- or fifteenth-century inscription, fol. 173r, reads "...Aucton...honore...liber a ton...da"
Nicolas Josephes Varoquier, Orchies, ca. 1700; ownership inscription, fol. 133v, reads "Cette livre appertien a nicola[s] josephes Varoquier Celui qui le retrouvra et le rendra pour dieu ou pour de argent a Orchies Septembre 1706 [1700?];" Orchies lies approximately kilometers northeast of Arras
Two contemporary inscriptions in red ink on front flyleaf iV: "Timotheus La Bussiere 1712" and "Tim: La Meillerais 1712"
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased between 1900 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Northeast France (Flanders at the time)
Late 13th century CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is French, Old (842-ca.1400).
Created in Northeast France
Fragmentary fourteenth- or fifteenth-century inscription, fol. 173r, reads "...Aucton...honore...liber a ton...da"
Nicolas Josephes Varoquier, Orchies, ca. 1700; ownership inscription, fol. 133v, reads "Cette livre appertien a nicola[s] josephes Varoquier Celui qui le retrouvra et le rendra pour dieu ou pour de argent a Orchies Septembre 1706 [1700?];" Orchies lies approximately kilometers northeast of Arras
Two contemporary inscriptions in red ink on front flyleaf iV: "Timotheus La Bussiere 1712" and "Tim: La Meillerais 1712"
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased between 1900 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This small, early Book of Hours dates to the late thirteenth century. It was created for use in Arras, and remained in that region for most of its existence. Although the majority of the book is written in Latin, the calendar is in Old French. The manuscript contains a prefatory cycle of six Passion miniatures, as well as seven extant full-page historiated initials.
Small historiated initial fol. 135r
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: 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. 161.
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. 366.
Wieck, Roger S. Time Sanctified. The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life. New York: George Braziller. 1988, pp. 66, 172, cat. no. 4, fig. 40.
Hemzik, Pamela. "Book of Hours." In Medieval Art in America: Patterns of Collecting, 1800-1940. Exhibition Catalogue. Palmer Museum of Art. Edited by Elizabeth Bradford Smith et al., 80-87. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996; p. 85 (n. 11 for p. 80).
Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 1, France 875-1420. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1997; pp. 113-115, cat. no. 47.
De Beaumanoir, Philippe. Le Roman de la Manekine. Amsterdam: Rodopi Publishers, 1999; p. 39.
Busby, Keith, Terry Nixon, Alison Stones and Lori Walters, eds. Les manuscrits de Chretien de Troyes. Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1993, Vol. 1, pp. 251, 253; Vol. 2, p. 57.
Higgitt, John. The Murthly Hours: Devotion, Literacy, and Luxury in Paris, England, and the Gaelic West. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000; pp. 179, 184.
Noel, William. "Psalter with Calendar, Canticles, Collects, Litany, Office of the Dead, Hours of the Virgin, and the Seven Penitential Psalm." In Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections. Edited by James R. Tanis, 54-56. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001; p. 54, cat. no. 11.
Wolf, Jurgen. "Artus und sein Gefolge: Zur Tradierung des arturischen Romans in Deutschland und Frankreich." In Eine Epoche im Umbruch: Volkssprachliche Literalität 1200-1300. Edited by Christa Bertelsmeier-Kierst and Christopher Young, 2003, 205-220; p. 215.
Hourihane, Colum. Pontius Pilate: Anti-Semitism, and the Passion in Medieval Art. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009; p. 416 (n. 105).
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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