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 Lectionary was created ca. 1000 in Trier. Written in a clear Caroline minuscule, it contains decorated initials at the openings of important readings. A set of illuminated letters marks the beginning of the Epistle and Gospel lessons for Easter; they display the hierarchy of scripts with capital letters decorated with gold leaf or drawn in red ink, followed by uncial and Caroline minuscule. Initials in orange, sometimes filled with gold, mark the divisions of the text. The book has been stylistically compared with Ottonian manuscripts, especially with a Psalter preserved in Trier (Stadtbibliothek, Ms. 7) illuminated by the so-called Master of the Registrum Gregorii.
Capital letters for rubrics; Caroline minuscule for text
Cataloger: Valle, Chiara
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: Hamburger, Jeffrey
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Hoffman, Hartmut. "Buchkunst und Koeningtum im ottonischen unde fruesalischen Reich." Schriften der Monumenta Germaniae Historica 30, no. 1 (1986): p. 454.
De Ricci, Seymour, and William J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. 2 vols. New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1935, p. 768, no. 69.
Clarkson, Christopher. "Rediscovering Parchment: The Nature of the Beast." The Paper Conservator 16 (1992): pp. 5-26.
Nordenfalk, Carl. "Der Meister des Registrum Gregorii." Munchener Jahrbuch der Bildenden Kunst 3, no. 1 (1950): p. 64, fig. 7.
Austin, Gerard. "Bibliographie: Liturgical Manuscripts in the United States and Canada." Scriptorium 28 (1974): p. 99.
Nitschke, Brigitte. Die Handschriftengruppe um den Meister des Registrum Gregorii. Recklinghausen: Verlag Aurel Bongers, 1966.
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.
Trier, Germany
Ca. 1000 CE
book
Non-original Binding
Early twentieth-century dark blue morocco, made in Paris by Léon Gruel; upper cover decorated with the word "Lectionarium" with edges in gold and letters in crimson; the initial "L" has vine decoration and stems in crimson, green, and blue; gold tooling around the edge of binding
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Made in Trier in the early eleventh century
Léon Gruel, Paris, early twentieth century
Henry Walters, Baltimore, by purchase from Gruel before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Trier, Germany
Ca. 1000 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Made in Trier in the early eleventh century
Léon Gruel, Paris, early twentieth century
Henry Walters, Baltimore, by purchase from Gruel before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This Lectionary was created ca. 1000 in Trier. Written in a clear Caroline minuscule, it contains decorated initials at the openings of important readings. A set of illuminated letters marks the beginning of the Epistle and Gospel lessons for Easter; they display the hierarchy of scripts with capital letters decorated with gold leaf or drawn in red ink, followed by uncial and Caroline minuscule. Initials in orange, sometimes filled with gold, mark the divisions of the text. The book has been stylistically compared with Ottonian manuscripts, especially with a Psalter preserved in Trier (Stadtbibliothek, Ms. 7) illuminated by the so-called Master of the Registrum Gregorii.
Capital letters for rubrics; Caroline minuscule for text
Cataloger: Valle, Chiara
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: Hamburger, Jeffrey
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Hoffman, Hartmut. "Buchkunst und Koeningtum im ottonischen unde fruesalischen Reich." Schriften der Monumenta Germaniae Historica 30, no. 1 (1986): p. 454.
De Ricci, Seymour, and William J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. 2 vols. New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1935, p. 768, no. 69.
Clarkson, Christopher. "Rediscovering Parchment: The Nature of the Beast." The Paper Conservator 16 (1992): pp. 5-26.
Nordenfalk, Carl. "Der Meister des Registrum Gregorii." Munchener Jahrbuch der Bildenden Kunst 3, no. 1 (1950): p. 64, fig. 7.
Austin, Gerard. "Bibliographie: Liturgical Manuscripts in the United States and Canada." Scriptorium 28 (1974): p. 99.
Nitschke, Brigitte. Die Handschriftengruppe um den Meister des Registrum Gregorii. Recklinghausen: Verlag Aurel Bongers, 1966.
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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