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 completed ca. 1320-30 in the region of Ghent. The presence of the Hours of the Cross attributed to Pope John XXII (1316-1334) provides evidence that helps date the manuscript. The text is written in three languages, with the main text in Latin, Flemish prayers on fols. 123r-125v and fols. 131r-141r, and French rubrics throughout. Made for a woman portrayed kneeling before the cross on fol. 116v, this manuscript is decorated with twenty-four extant historiated initials and drolleries for each canonical hour.
Textura quadrata; Calendar in textura semi-quadrata; fols. 5r-7r: fifteenth century hand imitating littera humanistica formata
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Valle, Chiara
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bucca, Lauren
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Schuele, Allyson
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
De Ricci, Seymour, and William J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935; p. 784, cat. no. 171.
Oliver, Judith H. Gothic Manuscript Illumination in the Diocese of Liège (c. 1250-1350). Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts from the Low Countries, 3. Vol. 1. Leuven: Peeters, 1988; p. 94 (n. 14).
Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 3, Belgium, 1250-1530. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1997; pp. 85-91, cat. no. 226.
Joslin, Mary Coker and Carolyn Coker Joslin Watson. The Egerton Genesis. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001; p. 223.
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; pp. 82-84.
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. London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2007; p. 161.
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.
Flanders (Ghent?)
Early 14th century CE
book
Non-original Binding
Late nineteenth-early twentieth-century crimson velvet binding; made by Léon Gruel; no. 936 written in pencil front pastedown
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary languages of this manuscript are Dutch; Flemish, French, Old (842-ca.1400).
Made in Flanders in the early fourteenth century
Jacobi Santens Cercenasen, sixteenth century; note of possession on fol. 98r, "ad usum mei Jacobi Santens Cercenasen et omnium amicorum" and "emi eiusdem Jacobi santens ego ..."
Léon Gruel, Paris, before 1931
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Léon Gruel by before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Flanders (Ghent?)
Early 14th century CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary languages of this manuscript are Dutch; Flemish, French, Old (842-ca.1400).
Made in Flanders in the early fourteenth century
Jacobi Santens Cercenasen, sixteenth century; note of possession on fol. 98r, "ad usum mei Jacobi Santens Cercenasen et omnium amicorum" and "emi eiusdem Jacobi santens ego ..."
Léon Gruel, Paris, before 1931
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Léon Gruel by before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This Book of Hours was completed ca. 1320-30 in the region of Ghent. The presence of the Hours of the Cross attributed to Pope John XXII (1316-1334) provides evidence that helps date the manuscript. The text is written in three languages, with the main text in Latin, Flemish prayers on fols. 123r-125v and fols. 131r-141r, and French rubrics throughout. Made for a woman portrayed kneeling before the cross on fol. 116v, this manuscript is decorated with twenty-four extant historiated initials and drolleries for each canonical hour.
Textura quadrata; Calendar in textura semi-quadrata; fols. 5r-7r: fifteenth century hand imitating littera humanistica formata
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Valle, Chiara
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bucca, Lauren
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Schuele, Allyson
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
De Ricci, Seymour, and William J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935; p. 784, cat. no. 171.
Oliver, Judith H. Gothic Manuscript Illumination in the Diocese of Liège (c. 1250-1350). Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts from the Low Countries, 3. Vol. 1. Leuven: Peeters, 1988; p. 94 (n. 14).
Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 3, Belgium, 1250-1530. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1997; pp. 85-91, cat. no. 226.
Joslin, Mary Coker and Carolyn Coker Joslin Watson. The Egerton Genesis. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001; p. 223.
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; pp. 82-84.
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. London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2007; p. 161.
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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