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 Book of Hours was produced in the early fourteenth century in northeast France. The contents of the calendar suggest a Use of Saint-Omer, which was in the diocese of Thérouanne. The presence of a female figure kneeling in prayer accompanying the Pentecost suggests that the manuscript was made for a female owner. The calendar contains marginal illumination with the labors of the months and the zodiac symbols. There are seven full-page miniatures depicting scenes from the book of Genesis, unusually contained within architectural settings. Twenty-four historiated initials, initials decorated with human heads, and an abundance of marginal figures makes this manuscript exceptionally charming.
Textura; calendar and main text probably by different hand
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Shartrand, Emily
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Schuele, Allyson
Contributor: Sedovic, Katherine
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Stones, Alison. "Notes on Three Illuminated Alexander Manuscripts." The Medieval Alexander Legend and Romance Epic: Essays in Honor of David J.A. Ross. Edited by P. Noble, L. Polak, and C.C. Isoz, 193-241. Millwood, NY: Kraus International Publication, 1982; pp. 205, 206.
Diringer, David. The Illuminated Book: Its History and Production. London: Faber and Faber, 1958; 401, PL. vii-14c.
Meiss, Millard. French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry: The Boucicaut Master. London: Phaidon Press, ltd., 1968; p. 117 (fig. 568).
Scheiber, Sandor. A Májmuni Kódex. Budapest: Magyar Helikon, 1980; pp. 27, 29, 32 (n. 36), fig. 13.
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. 783, cat. no. 168.
Stones, Allison. "Illustrations of the French Prose Lancelot in Flanders, Belgium, and Paris, 1250-1340." PhD Diss., University of London, 1970; pp. 165, 167, 181, 182, 185, 186, 227, 449, 450, 497, 512-517.
Hamburger, J. "The Rothschild Canticles (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS 404): Art and Mysticism in Flanders and the Rhineland ca. 1300." PhD Diss., Yale University (1987); pp. 73-78, 80, 83, figs. 91-92.
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. 372-373.
Shailor, Barbara A. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscripts Library, Yale University. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, vol. 48. Birmingham, NY: State University of New York Press, 1987; pp. 286-293.
Stones, Alison. "Another Short Notice on Rylands French 1." In Romanesque and Gothic: Essays for George Zarnecki. Edited by N. Stratford. Bury St. Edmunds: Boydell Press, 1987; p. 191.
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. 138-142, cat. no. 54.
Van Buren, Anne H. "Die Künstler der ersten Kampagne," "Artists of the First Campaign," and "Les artistes de la première campagne." In Heures de Turin-Milan, Vol. 2. Edited by Anne H. van Buren, James H. Marrow, and Silvana Pettenati, 71-88, 275-288, 462-478. Lucerne: Faksimile Verlag, 1996; pp. 81 (as Stundenbach aus Saint-Omer), 87 (n. 51), 283 (as Book of Hours from Saint-Omer), 288 (n. 51), 471 (as Livre d'heures de Saint-Omer (n. 51).
Smeyers, Mauritius. Flemish Miniatures from the 8th to the mid-16th Century: The Medieval World on Parchment. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1999; p. 133 (fig. 32), 172.
Higgitt, John. The Murthly Hours: Devotion, Literacy and Luxury in Paris, England and the Gaelic West. London: The British Library, 2000; p. 184.
Joslin, Mary Coker, and Carolyn Coker Joslin Watson. The Egerton Genesis. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001; 176, 222.
Bennett, Adelaide. "Continuity and Change in the Religious Book Culture of the Lowlands in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries." In Medieval Mastery: Book Illumination from Charlemagne to Charles the Bold (800-1475). Edited by William Noel and Lee Preedy, 167-179. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2002; 176.
Nevins, Teresa. "Book of Hours." In Medieval Mastery: Book Illumination from Charlemagne to Charles the Bold (800-1475). Edited by William Noel and Lee Preedy. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2002; pp. 228-229, cat. no. 50., p.. 237, cat. no. 54.
Śnieżyńska-Stolotowa, Ewa. Astrological Iconography in the Middle Ages: The Decanal Planets. Krakow: Jagiellonian University Press, 2003; pp. 38-39, 76.
Gathercole, Patricia M. The Depiction of Angels and Demons in Medieval French Manuscript Illumination. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2004; p. 80.
Gil, Marc, and Ludovic Nys. Saint-Omer gothique: les arts figuratifs à Saint-Omer à la fin du Moyen Âge, 1250-1550 : peinture, vitrail, sculpture, arts du livre. Valenciennes Cedex: Presses Universitaires de Valenciennes, 2004; p. 75.
Stones, Alison. "The Full-Page Miniatures of the Psalter Hours New York, PML, ms M. 729." In The Illuminated Psalter: Studies in the Content, Purpose, and Placement of Its Images. Edited by Frank O. Büttner, 281-308. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2004; p. 285.
Marrow, James H., Brigitte Dekeyzer, and Jan Van Der Stock. Pictorial Invention in the Netherlandish Manuscript Illumination of the Late Middle Ages: The Play of Illusion and Meaning. Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2005; pp. 7, 11, 35 (n. 24).
Bennett, Adelaide. "Christ''s Five Wounds in the Aves of the Vita Christi in a Book of Hours about 1300."In Tributes in Honor of James H. Marrow Studies in Painting and Manuscript Illumination of the Late Middle Ages and Northern Renaissance. Edited by Jeffrey F. Hamburger and A.S. Korteweg, 75-84. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2006; p. 82 (n. 12).
McQuillen, John T. "Who Was St. Thomas of Lancaster? New Manuscript Evidence." In Fourteenth Century England, Volume 4. Edited by J.S. Hamilton, 1-25. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 2006; pp. 3, 4-5 (n. 15).
Oliver, Judith H. "Te Matrem Laudamus:The Many Roles of Mary in a Liège Psalter Hours in Cambridge." In The Cambridge Illuminations: the Conference Papers. Edited by Stella Panayotova, 159-172. Washington, D.C.: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2007; p. 161.
Scheller, Robert W. "Wreath and Crown: Variations and Changes in Apocalyptic Headgear." In The Cambridge illuminations: the conference papers. Edited by Stella Panayotova, 87-96. Washington, D.C.: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2007; p. 89.
Wirth, Jean, and Isabelle Engammare. Les marges à drôleries des manuscrits gothiques, 1250-1350. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2008; pp. 209, 224, 274, 297, 344.
Roux, Brigitte. Mondes en miniatures: l'iconographie du Livre du trésor de Brunetto Latini. Paris: Libraire Droz, 2009; pp. 372, 389, 420.
Dillon, Emma. The Sense of Sound: Musical Meaning in France, 1260-1330. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012; pp. 208-212, figs. 6.12, 6.13.
Newman, Barbara. "Contemplating the Trinity: Text, Image, and Origin of the Rothschild Canticles." Gesta:52 (2013), 131-159; p. 133.
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 (French Flanders)
Early 14th century CE
book
Non-original Binding
Eighteenth-century French binding in the style of Derome; dark green goat leather that has turned brown; board-edges, turn-ins, and spine have gilt decoration; initials of previous owner "J. L." in gold on upper-board added in second half of the nineteenth century; title inscribed on spine "Ofici B. Mariae".
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Created in northeast France
Seventeenth-century owner believed to be Spanish based on the brown ink inscription "252 fojas escritas" found on back flyleaf i, v
Front pastedown contains round ticket with scalloped edges that has not been identified, inscribed with "4366"
Rebound in the second half of the eighteenth century in France; "J. L." monogram added to cover in second half of the nineteenth century
Lionel Harris, London, owned until 1911
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Lionel Harris in 1911, according to letter by William Voelkle, "Brought to the Gallery by Mr. Walters, Oct. 1, 1911"
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Northeast France (French Flanders)
Early 14th century CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Created in northeast France
Seventeenth-century owner believed to be Spanish based on the brown ink inscription "252 fojas escritas" found on back flyleaf i, v
Front pastedown contains round ticket with scalloped edges that has not been identified, inscribed with "4366"
Rebound in the second half of the eighteenth century in France; "J. L." monogram added to cover in second half of the nineteenth century
Lionel Harris, London, owned until 1911
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Lionel Harris in 1911, according to letter by William Voelkle, "Brought to the Gallery by Mr. Walters, Oct. 1, 1911"
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This Book of Hours was produced in the early fourteenth century in northeast France. The contents of the calendar suggest a Use of Saint-Omer, which was in the diocese of Thérouanne. The presence of a female figure kneeling in prayer accompanying the Pentecost suggests that the manuscript was made for a female owner. The calendar contains marginal illumination with the labors of the months and the zodiac symbols. There are seven full-page miniatures depicting scenes from the book of Genesis, unusually contained within architectural settings. Twenty-four historiated initials, initials decorated with human heads, and an abundance of marginal figures makes this manuscript exceptionally charming.
Textura; calendar and main text probably by different hand
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Shartrand, Emily
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Schuele, Allyson
Contributor: Sedovic, Katherine
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Stones, Alison. "Notes on Three Illuminated Alexander Manuscripts." The Medieval Alexander Legend and Romance Epic: Essays in Honor of David J.A. Ross. Edited by P. Noble, L. Polak, and C.C. Isoz, 193-241. Millwood, NY: Kraus International Publication, 1982; pp. 205, 206.
Diringer, David. The Illuminated Book: Its History and Production. London: Faber and Faber, 1958; 401, PL. vii-14c.
Meiss, Millard. French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry: The Boucicaut Master. London: Phaidon Press, ltd., 1968; p. 117 (fig. 568).
Scheiber, Sandor. A Májmuni Kódex. Budapest: Magyar Helikon, 1980; pp. 27, 29, 32 (n. 36), fig. 13.
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. 783, cat. no. 168.
Stones, Allison. "Illustrations of the French Prose Lancelot in Flanders, Belgium, and Paris, 1250-1340." PhD Diss., University of London, 1970; pp. 165, 167, 181, 182, 185, 186, 227, 449, 450, 497, 512-517.
Hamburger, J. "The Rothschild Canticles (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS 404): Art and Mysticism in Flanders and the Rhineland ca. 1300." PhD Diss., Yale University (1987); pp. 73-78, 80, 83, figs. 91-92.
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. 372-373.
Shailor, Barbara A. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscripts Library, Yale University. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, vol. 48. Birmingham, NY: State University of New York Press, 1987; pp. 286-293.
Stones, Alison. "Another Short Notice on Rylands French 1." In Romanesque and Gothic: Essays for George Zarnecki. Edited by N. Stratford. Bury St. Edmunds: Boydell Press, 1987; p. 191.
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. 138-142, cat. no. 54.
Van Buren, Anne H. "Die Künstler der ersten Kampagne," "Artists of the First Campaign," and "Les artistes de la première campagne." In Heures de Turin-Milan, Vol. 2. Edited by Anne H. van Buren, James H. Marrow, and Silvana Pettenati, 71-88, 275-288, 462-478. Lucerne: Faksimile Verlag, 1996; pp. 81 (as Stundenbach aus Saint-Omer), 87 (n. 51), 283 (as Book of Hours from Saint-Omer), 288 (n. 51), 471 (as Livre d'heures de Saint-Omer (n. 51).
Smeyers, Mauritius. Flemish Miniatures from the 8th to the mid-16th Century: The Medieval World on Parchment. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1999; p. 133 (fig. 32), 172.
Higgitt, John. The Murthly Hours: Devotion, Literacy and Luxury in Paris, England and the Gaelic West. London: The British Library, 2000; p. 184.
Joslin, Mary Coker, and Carolyn Coker Joslin Watson. The Egerton Genesis. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001; 176, 222.
Bennett, Adelaide. "Continuity and Change in the Religious Book Culture of the Lowlands in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries." In Medieval Mastery: Book Illumination from Charlemagne to Charles the Bold (800-1475). Edited by William Noel and Lee Preedy, 167-179. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2002; 176.
Nevins, Teresa. "Book of Hours." In Medieval Mastery: Book Illumination from Charlemagne to Charles the Bold (800-1475). Edited by William Noel and Lee Preedy. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2002; pp. 228-229, cat. no. 50., p.. 237, cat. no. 54.
Śnieżyńska-Stolotowa, Ewa. Astrological Iconography in the Middle Ages: The Decanal Planets. Krakow: Jagiellonian University Press, 2003; pp. 38-39, 76.
Gathercole, Patricia M. The Depiction of Angels and Demons in Medieval French Manuscript Illumination. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2004; p. 80.
Gil, Marc, and Ludovic Nys. Saint-Omer gothique: les arts figuratifs à Saint-Omer à la fin du Moyen Âge, 1250-1550 : peinture, vitrail, sculpture, arts du livre. Valenciennes Cedex: Presses Universitaires de Valenciennes, 2004; p. 75.
Stones, Alison. "The Full-Page Miniatures of the Psalter Hours New York, PML, ms M. 729." In The Illuminated Psalter: Studies in the Content, Purpose, and Placement of Its Images. Edited by Frank O. Büttner, 281-308. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2004; p. 285.
Marrow, James H., Brigitte Dekeyzer, and Jan Van Der Stock. Pictorial Invention in the Netherlandish Manuscript Illumination of the Late Middle Ages: The Play of Illusion and Meaning. Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2005; pp. 7, 11, 35 (n. 24).
Bennett, Adelaide. "Christ''s Five Wounds in the Aves of the Vita Christi in a Book of Hours about 1300."In Tributes in Honor of James H. Marrow Studies in Painting and Manuscript Illumination of the Late Middle Ages and Northern Renaissance. Edited by Jeffrey F. Hamburger and A.S. Korteweg, 75-84. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2006; p. 82 (n. 12).
McQuillen, John T. "Who Was St. Thomas of Lancaster? New Manuscript Evidence." In Fourteenth Century England, Volume 4. Edited by J.S. Hamilton, 1-25. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 2006; pp. 3, 4-5 (n. 15).
Oliver, Judith H. "Te Matrem Laudamus:The Many Roles of Mary in a Liège Psalter Hours in Cambridge." In The Cambridge Illuminations: the Conference Papers. Edited by Stella Panayotova, 159-172. Washington, D.C.: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2007; p. 161.
Scheller, Robert W. "Wreath and Crown: Variations and Changes in Apocalyptic Headgear." In The Cambridge illuminations: the conference papers. Edited by Stella Panayotova, 87-96. Washington, D.C.: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2007; p. 89.
Wirth, Jean, and Isabelle Engammare. Les marges à drôleries des manuscrits gothiques, 1250-1350. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2008; pp. 209, 224, 274, 297, 344.
Roux, Brigitte. Mondes en miniatures: l'iconographie du Livre du trésor de Brunetto Latini. Paris: Libraire Droz, 2009; pp. 372, 389, 420.
Dillon, Emma. The Sense of Sound: Musical Meaning in France, 1260-1330. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012; pp. 208-212, figs. 6.12, 6.13.
Newman, Barbara. "Contemplating the Trinity: Text, Image, and Origin of the Rothschild Canticles." Gesta:52 (2013), 131-159; p. 133.
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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