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- Title:
- Walters Ms. W.165, Loftie Hours
- Author:
- Masters of the Delft Grisailles
- Format:
- Manuscript/Archive
- Language:
- Dutch and Flemish
- Abstract:
- This mid-fifteenth-century illuminated Book of Hours is written entirely in Dutch on fine parchment and is remarkable for its eighteen grisaille miniatures. This technique, wherein the figures are modeled primarily in a gray wash, became a favorite in the Netherlands. The hand behind the miniatures in this manuscript has been identified with a group of artists known as the Masters of the Delft Grisailles. The manuscript has been grouped with more than a dozen related works, including New York, Morgan Ms. M.349; London, Victoria and Albert Geo. Reid Ms. 32; Leiden, BPL Ms. 224; Brussels, BR Ms. 21696; Antwerp, Plantin Moretus Ms. 49; and The Hague, KB Ms. 74 G 35. The manuscript is comprised of 152 folios and is almost completely intact, lacking only two miniatures. It retains its original brown leather binding decorated with mythological beasts and a now illegible inscription. The calendar is for the Use of Utrecht, which helps localize its original ownership, as might a mostly erased ownership inscription that has been partially recovered. Good impressions of two circular pilgrim badges, now removed, are visible on fol. 112v. For full description, see http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W165/description.html
- Date:
- 1440 to 1460
- Repository:
- Walters Art Museum
- Title:
- Walters Ms. W.167, Amherst Hours
- Author:
- Suso, Henry, 1295-1366, Henricus Suso, and Heinrich Seuse
- Format:
- Manuscript/Archive
- Language:
- Dutch and Flemish
- Abstract:
- This book of hours was written in Dutch in the fifteenth century for the use of Utrecht. The Hours of the Virgin and of the Cross are accompanied here by the Dutch translation of Henry Suso's "Cursus aeternae sapientiae," a text that was particularly popular for private devotion in the Netherlands. Once owned by the English collector Lord Amherst, the manuscript is exceptional for its extensive illumination. Webs of foliage cover every margin, most sprouting medallions containing flora and fauna. The divisions in the text are marked by twenty richly painted full-page miniatures, often accompanied by related marginalia. Further illumination in the form of historiated and foliate initials marks minor breaks in the text, and the overall effect is a visual feast for the reader. For full description, see http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W167/description.html
- Date:
- 1400 to 1500
- Repository:
- Walters Art Museum
- Title:
- Walters Ms. W.171, Duke Albrecht's Table of Christian faith (winter part)
- Author:
- Dirc van Delf
- Format:
- Manuscript/Archive
- Language:
- Dutch and Flemish
- Abstract:
- This illuminated manuscript is a document of the first importance in the history of Dutch manuscript illumination and contains an important medieval Dutch devotional text. The Tafel van den Kersten ghelove is a compendium of Christian knowledge written by a learned Dominican, Dirc van Delf. The text is in two parts, one for winter, one for summer. This manuscript is of the winter part and is incomplete, omitting the prologue and chapters 13, 14, and 35-57. The arms of the Bavarian counts of Holland and the kneeling owner on fol. 1r indicate that this manuscript was the actual copy prepared for the dedicatee of the text, Albrecht of Bavaria, Count of Holland, from the original text of his chaplain, and is therefore to be dated to 1404 at the latest, when Albrecht died. The manuscript contains 165 folios and thirty-five historiated initials. For full description, see http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W171/description.html
- Date:
- 1400 to 1404
- Repository:
- Walters Art Museum
- Title:
- Walters Ms. W.182, Prayer book
- Format:
- Manuscript/Archive
- Language:
- Dutch and Flemish
- Abstract:
- This pocket-size prayer book was written in Dutch on fine parchment ca. 1470. The calendar is for the use of Utrecht, which helps localize its original ownership. It is notable for its thirteen full-page illuminations and seven small miniatures for the suffrages, by artists close to the Utrecht school. This manuscript has been grouped with many related works, including Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale 10761, Oxford, Bodleian Library Ms. Douce 30, Utrecht, Aartsbisshoppelijk Museum Ms. 20, the so-called Harberton-Wodhull Hours, private collection, The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek Ms. 131 G8, and Ms. 76 F31. For full description, see http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W182/description.html
- Date:
- 1450 to 1475
- Repository:
- Walters Art Museum
- Title:
- Walters Ms. W.185, Doffinnes Hours
- Author:
- Master of Walters 185 and Johannes de Malborch
- Format:
- Manuscript/Archive
- Language:
- Latin, Dutch, and Flemish
- Abstract:
- This Book of Hours was named the Doffinnes Hours after Franchoise de Doffinnes, who owned the book in the late sixteenth century and whose family’s subsequent history remains chronicled on the book’s final folios. However, the manuscript was originally made in the first quarter of the fifteenth century, probably for a married couple, who were originally represented kneeling with scrolls and their coats of arms in the margins, flanking a full-page miniature of the Crucifixion (fol. 72v), but whose figures and arms were later erased and overpainted with white. The manuscript contains both Latin and Dutch texts, supplemented by twelve full-page miniatures, the work of the Master of Walters 185. The manuscript also contains twelve pen-and-ink decorated initials in the calendar, some with grotesque faces, and letter "G" descenders throughout the book that can be attributed to the scribe Johannes de Malborch. The book’s original Dutch provenance is indicated by its calendar (for the Use of Utrecht) and its Hours of the Virgin, which follows predominantly the Use of the Windesheim Congregation. Prayers in Dutch were added to the end of the volume in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century, and the book was subsequently rebound with its current cream-colored parchment binding of the seventeenth or eighteenth century. For full description, see http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W185/description.html
- Date:
- 1400 to 1425
- Repository:
- Walters Art Museum
- Title:
- Walters Ms. W.188, Book of Hours in Dutch
- Author:
- Grote, Geert, 1340-1384, No author name given., and Masters of Zweder van Culemborg
- Format:
- Manuscript/Archive
- Language:
- Dutch and Flemish
- Abstract:
- This illuminated Book of Hours was produced in the second quarter of the fifteenth century. It is written in the Netherlandish translation of Geert Grote. Although lacking in full-page miniatures, the manuscript contains eighteen historiated initials by the Masters of Zweder van Culemborg with ornamental initials and decoration throughout. For full description, see http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W188/description.html
- Date:
- 1425 to 1450
- Repository:
- Walters Art Museum
- Title:
- Walters Ms. W.192, Book of Hours in Dutch
- Author:
- Geert Groote and No author name given.
- Format:
- Manuscript/Archive
- Language:
- Dutch and Flemish
- Abstract:
- This book of hours was created in the Netherlands in the fifteenth century. Written entirely in Dutch, its calendar is for the use of Utrecht. However, it was probably made in Haarlem, which produced books of hours with this kind of border decoration. Its folios are highly finished, and it is richly illuminated throughout with sprouting foliage, occasionally inhabited by people, animals, and grotesques. Large decorative initials mark the main divisions in the text, the first of which is historiated with an image of the Virgin and Child. Especially notable is the fine quality and abundance of its burnished gold, found in the initials and vegetation on nearly every page of the manuscript. For full description, see http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W192/description.html
- Date:
- 1460 to 1490
- Repository:
- Walters Art Museum
- Title:
- Walters Ms. W.782, Van Alphen Hours
- Author:
- Master of Catherine of Cleves workshop
- Format:
- Manuscript/Archive
- Language:
- Dutch and Flemish
- Abstract:
- This Dutch book of hours was made for a female patron, possibly pictured on fol. 109r, in the mid-fifteenth century. Originally richly illuminated by the workshop of the Master of Catherine of Cleves, the manuscript now lacks all of its full-page miniatures, although the eight surviving historiated initials speak to its original grandeur. Its rebinding in the seventeenth century resulted in the loss of several folios and the reordering of many of the texts. While the catalog description here remains faithful to the order of the texts as they appear today, an attempt has been made within the individual parts to reconstruct the original layout of the manuscript. For full description, see http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W782/description.html
- Date:
- 1440 to 1450
- Repository:
- Walters Art Museum
- Title:
- Walters Ms. W.834, Prayer book
- Format:
- Manuscript/Archive
- Language:
- Dutch and Flemish
- Abstract:
- This prayer book was written in Dutch ca. 1475. It is notable for its full-page miniature introducing the prayers, which represents a clock containing the crown of thorns, centered between the names of Christ and the Virgin in gold and blue. Reference to the mystical meaning of the clock is found in the manuscript, which contains Henry Suso's text of the clock of the eternal wisdom. For full description, see http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W834/description.html
- Date:
- 1475
- Repository:
- Walters Art Museum
- Title:
- Walters Ms. W.918, Book of Hours in Dutch
- Author:
- Masters of the Zwolle Bible
- Format:
- Manuscript/Archive
- Language:
- Dutch and Flemish
- Abstract:
- 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. For full description, see http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W918/description.html
- Date:
- 1470
- Repository:
- Walters Art Museum