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The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
Three fragments salvaged from a volume of the Beaupré Antiphonary that was damaged in June 1865 during a fire that spread to Sotheby and Wilkinson in London. Six other fragments are known to exist in other collections: two leaves at the Victoria and Albert Museum (Department of Prints, Drawings, and Paintings, nos. 7939-7940); two in Brussels at the Bibliothèque Royale Albert I (nos. 3634.1-2); one in Bordeaux in the Trésor de la Cathédrale Saint-André (Collection Marcadé, no. 101); and one in Nuremberg at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Graphische Sammlung (Bredt 71). For full cataloging on the Beaupré Antiphonary, see the entries on the more intact volumes of the manuscript, W.759-762.
Three historiated initials
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Jewell, Stephanie
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Randall, Lilian M.C., "The Fragmentation of a Double Antiphonal from Beaupré." In Interpreting and Collecting Fragments of Medieval Books, eds. Linda L. Brownrigg and Margaret M. Smith, Proceedings of the Seminar in the History of the Book to 1500, Oxford 1998 (Los Altos Hills, 2000), 210-229.
Randall, Lilian M. C. "Three Newly Acquired Illuminated Initials from the Beaupre Antiphonary (W.915)." Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004): 203-207.
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.
Hainaut
Ca. 1290 CE
leaves
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Illuminated in Hainaut by the scribe Johannes in 1290, for abbess Beatrix of Grammont
Revisions and additions; after 1476 presumably for abbess Jacquemine Hendricx and in eighteenth century for last abbess Angeline de Lossy
Abbey seized during French Revolution, volumes sold in 1797
Acquired by John Ruskin in 1850-53
Sotheby and Wilkinson sale, London, 19 February 1863, lot 742
London, June 1865, fire from house next to Sotheby and Wilkinson spread and destroyed three of the volumes, of which nine cut-out initials survive
Sir Walter Oakenshott, England, before 1970
Judith Chantry, England, before 1998
Nancy Bell, Oxford, England, acquired as gift from Judith Chantry in 1998
The Walters Art Museum, 2004, by purchase
Hainaut
Ca. 1290 CE
leaves
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Illuminated in Hainaut by the scribe Johannes in 1290, for abbess Beatrix of Grammont
Revisions and additions; after 1476 presumably for abbess Jacquemine Hendricx and in eighteenth century for last abbess Angeline de Lossy
Abbey seized during French Revolution, volumes sold in 1797
Acquired by John Ruskin in 1850-53
Sotheby and Wilkinson sale, London, 19 February 1863, lot 742
London, June 1865, fire from house next to Sotheby and Wilkinson spread and destroyed three of the volumes, of which nine cut-out initials survive
Sir Walter Oakenshott, England, before 1970
Judith Chantry, England, before 1998
Nancy Bell, Oxford, England, acquired as gift from Judith Chantry in 1998
The Walters Art Museum, 2004, by purchase
Three fragments salvaged from a volume of the Beaupré Antiphonary that was damaged in June 1865 during a fire that spread to Sotheby and Wilkinson in London. Six other fragments are known to exist in other collections: two leaves at the Victoria and Albert Museum (Department of Prints, Drawings, and Paintings, nos. 7939-7940); two in Brussels at the Bibliothèque Royale Albert I (nos. 3634.1-2); one in Bordeaux in the Trésor de la Cathédrale Saint-André (Collection Marcadé, no. 101); and one in Nuremberg at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Graphische Sammlung (Bredt 71). For full cataloging on the Beaupré Antiphonary, see the entries on the more intact volumes of the manuscript, W.759-762.
Three historiated initials
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Jewell, Stephanie
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Randall, Lilian M.C., "The Fragmentation of a Double Antiphonal from Beaupré." In Interpreting and Collecting Fragments of Medieval Books, eds. Linda L. Brownrigg and Margaret M. Smith, Proceedings of the Seminar in the History of the Book to 1500, Oxford 1998 (Los Altos Hills, 2000), 210-229.
Randall, Lilian M. C. "Three Newly Acquired Illuminated Initials from the Beaupre Antiphonary (W.915)." Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004): 203-207.
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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