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 pocket-size Book of Hours was created ca. 1380 to commemorate the wedding of Raoul II de Raineval (d. 1392) and Isabelle de Coucy (d. 1413). Its most unique feature is the illuminated heraldic initials containing the arms of Coucy and Raineval at canonical divisions. Particularly, the combined heraldry at Matins in the Hours of the Virgin highlights their marriage. The bride is depicted in a donor portrait kneeling in front of the seated Virgin and Child in one of the prefatory miniatures (fol. 3v) with Coucy's heraldic shield. Charming drolleries appear at major text divisions.
Textura formata
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Han, Yuna
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Han, Yuna
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
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. 785, cat. no. 176.
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, pp. 371-372.
Sinclair, Keith Val, and Jean Sonet. Prières en ancien français: Additions et corrections aux articles 1-2374 du Répertoire de Sonet, Supplément. Townsville: James Cook University of North Queensland, 1987, p. 173.
Wieck, Roger S. "Time Sanctified: The Book of Hours". 41 No.4. The Walters Art Gallery. 04/1988:cover, 1-5, detail from fol.3v; p. 1.
Wieck, Roger S. Time Sanctified. The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life. New York: George Braziller. 1988, pp. 34 and 179, cat. no. 14, fig. 6 (fol. 3v).
Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 1. France: 875-1420. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989, pp. 194-195, cat. no. 73.
Reinburg, Virginia. French Book of Hours: Making an Archive of Prayer, c. 1400-1600. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012, p. 69, fig. 10 (fol. 3v).
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.
Paris
Last quarter of the 14th century CE
book
Non-original Binding
Rebound by Léon Gruel, Paris, late nineteenth or early twentieth century; red leather over possibly original wooden boards; possibly original sewing, sewn on five tawed (?) thongs; clasps are modern; fore-edge tabs contemporary with rebinding
The primary language in this manuscript is French, Old (842-ca.1400). The secondary language of this manuscript is Latin.
Created ca. 1380 in Paris for the marriage of Raoul II de Raineval
Léon Gruel, Paris, late nineteenth or early twentieth century; his bookplate on front pastedown, unnumbered; number '1476' found on his handwritten dealer description originally attached to front flyleaf, now in WAM file
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Paris
Last quarter of the 14th century CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is French, Old (842-ca.1400). The secondary language of this manuscript is Latin.
Created ca. 1380 in Paris for the marriage of Raoul II de Raineval
Léon Gruel, Paris, late nineteenth or early twentieth century; his bookplate on front pastedown, unnumbered; number '1476' found on his handwritten dealer description originally attached to front flyleaf, now in WAM file
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This pocket-size Book of Hours was created ca. 1380 to commemorate the wedding of Raoul II de Raineval (d. 1392) and Isabelle de Coucy (d. 1413). Its most unique feature is the illuminated heraldic initials containing the arms of Coucy and Raineval at canonical divisions. Particularly, the combined heraldry at Matins in the Hours of the Virgin highlights their marriage. The bride is depicted in a donor portrait kneeling in front of the seated Virgin and Child in one of the prefatory miniatures (fol. 3v) with Coucy's heraldic shield. Charming drolleries appear at major text divisions.
Textura formata
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Han, Yuna
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Han, Yuna
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
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. 785, cat. no. 176.
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, pp. 371-372.
Sinclair, Keith Val, and Jean Sonet. Prières en ancien français: Additions et corrections aux articles 1-2374 du Répertoire de Sonet, Supplément. Townsville: James Cook University of North Queensland, 1987, p. 173.
Wieck, Roger S. "Time Sanctified: The Book of Hours". 41 No.4. The Walters Art Gallery. 04/1988:cover, 1-5, detail from fol.3v; p. 1.
Wieck, Roger S. Time Sanctified. The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life. New York: George Braziller. 1988, pp. 34 and 179, cat. no. 14, fig. 6 (fol. 3v).
Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 1. France: 875-1420. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989, pp. 194-195, cat. no. 73.
Reinburg, Virginia. French Book of Hours: Making an Archive of Prayer, c. 1400-1600. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012, p. 69, fig. 10 (fol. 3v).
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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