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 created in Zwolle, Netherlands, ca. 1470. It belongs to the group of “Sarijs manuscripts,” which was named after the erroneous citation in most works that identifies the manuscripts as belonging to the same group of “Sarijs” instead of “Marijs” on January 19 of their calendars (also found in W. 918). In a study of this group by Lydia Wierda, the author suggests that these manuscripts were copied by students at the school of the Brethren of the Common Life in Zwolle and also decorated and illustrated in that city (although possibly by professional illuminators) during the period ca. 1470-90 (see Wierda, De Sarijs-handschriften). All of the principal decorative schemes and motifs in W.918, as well as the compositions of its miniatures, have close counterparts in other manuscripts belonging to the group.
Written in Gothic bookhand
artist: Masters of the Zwolle Bible
Principal cataloger: Marrow, James
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Boot, Christine
Contributor: Dutschke, Consuelo
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Pizzinato, Riccardo
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Wierda, Lydia S. De Sarijs-handschriften. Studie naar een groep laat-middeleeuwse handschriften uit de IJsselstreek (voorheen toegeschreven aan de Agnieteberg bij Zwolle). Zwolle, Netherlands: Wanders, 1995.
Foot, Mirjam M., ed. Eloquent Witnesses: Bookbindings and their History. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2004, p. 46, fig. 9.
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.
Zwolle, Netherlands
Ca. 1470 CE
book
Non-original Binding
Late seventeenth-century Dutch binding; cream- colored vellum over pasteboard, gold-tooled; outer frame of double gold fillets enclosing an inner frame of the same, with canted gold crowns at the outside of each of the four corners (possibly bound in Amsterdam, ca. 1695 in the workshop of Albert Magnus; a virtually identical binding reproduced in Foot, Eloquent Witnesses); sewn on five raised bands; spine gold-tooled in six panels; edges speckled red
The primary language in this manuscript is Dutch; Flemish.
Created by the "Sarijs group" of the Brethren of the Common Life in Zwolle, Netherlands, ca. 1470
Charles W. Reynell, London, ca. 1860
C. H. Reynell, Memphis, Tennessee, by descent
Dmitri Tselos, Minnesota, 1941, by purchase in Europe
George Tselos and Susan E. Tselos, by descent
Museum purchase and partial donation by George Tselos and Susan E. Tselos in memory of their father, Dimitri Tselos, 2006. Purchased through Michael Laird.
Zwolle, Netherlands
Ca. 1470 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Dutch; Flemish.
Created by the "Sarijs group" of the Brethren of the Common Life in Zwolle, Netherlands, ca. 1470
Charles W. Reynell, London, ca. 1860
C. H. Reynell, Memphis, Tennessee, by descent
Dmitri Tselos, Minnesota, 1941, by purchase in Europe
George Tselos and Susan E. Tselos, by descent
Museum purchase and partial donation by George Tselos and Susan E. Tselos in memory of their father, Dimitri Tselos, 2006. Purchased through Michael Laird.
This Book of Hours was created in Zwolle, Netherlands, ca. 1470. It belongs to the group of “Sarijs manuscripts,” which was named after the erroneous citation in most works that identifies the manuscripts as belonging to the same group of “Sarijs” instead of “Marijs” on January 19 of their calendars (also found in W. 918). In a study of this group by Lydia Wierda, the author suggests that these manuscripts were copied by students at the school of the Brethren of the Common Life in Zwolle and also decorated and illustrated in that city (although possibly by professional illuminators) during the period ca. 1470-90 (see Wierda, De Sarijs-handschriften). All of the principal decorative schemes and motifs in W.918, as well as the compositions of its miniatures, have close counterparts in other manuscripts belonging to the group.
Written in Gothic bookhand
artist: Masters of the Zwolle Bible
Principal cataloger: Marrow, James
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Boot, Christine
Contributor: Dutschke, Consuelo
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Pizzinato, Riccardo
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Wierda, Lydia S. De Sarijs-handschriften. Studie naar een groep laat-middeleeuwse handschriften uit de IJsselstreek (voorheen toegeschreven aan de Agnieteberg bij Zwolle). Zwolle, Netherlands: Wanders, 1995.
Foot, Mirjam M., ed. Eloquent Witnesses: Bookbindings and their History. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2004, p. 46, fig. 9.
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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