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Walters Ms. W.36, Touke PsalterBrowse images (Browse images in a new window) | TEI in XML format
Abstract
This thirteenth-century Psalter was made in Bruges for a female patron. Lively vignettes fill the calendar, while large historiated initials of saints trampling their oppressors introduce the liturgical psalms. Added Easter tables, as well as birth and death inscriptions in the calendar, attest to the manuscript's presence in England by the fifteenth century, where it was used extensively by generations of the Touke family.
Language:
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is English.
Support material
Parchment
Medium- to heavy-weight parchment, well prepared, darkened from use
Extent
Foliation: iii+144+iii
Flyleaves are modern parchment; modern pencil foliation, upper right corners, rectos
Collation
Formula: Front flyleaves: iii; Quire 1: 2 (fols. 1-2); Quire 2: 6, lacking second and fourth folios (fols. 3-6); Quires 3-14: 8 (fols. 7-102); Quire 15: 8, lacking first folio (fols. 103-109); Quires 16-17: 8 (fols. 110-125); Quire 18: 6 (fols. 126-131); Quire 19: 8, lacking eighth folio (fols. 132-138); Quire 20: 6 (fols. 139-144); Back flyleaves: iii
Catchwords: Some traces of catchwords visible occasionally at lower right, versos (e.g., fol. 54v); light brown ink
Comments: Quire 1 was a later addition; possibly missing quire that would have had beatus leaf, but image may have been a singleton tipped in after fol. 6
Dimensions
16.5 cm wide by 24.1 cm high
Written surface
11.0 cm wide by 16.5 cm high
Layout
Contents:
fols. 1r - 144v:Decoration:
fol. 3r:
fol. 3v:
fol. 4r:
fol. 4v:
fol. 5r:
fol. 5v:
fol. 6r:
fol. 6v:
fol. 26r:
The inscriptions on the scrolls read "Petrus/Nero Cesar."
fol. 38v:
The inscriptions on the scrolls read "Johannes/Domicianus."
St. John has been effaced.
fol. 49r:
The inscriptions on the scrolls read "Mathias/Hebeon."
fol. 50r:
The inscriptions on the scrolls read "Jacobus/Herodes."
fol. 61v:
The inscriptions on the scrolls read "Symon/[Hirt?]acus."
The first half of the second name has been partially erased, but possibly refers to Hirtacus, the man who executed St. Matthew.
fol. 75v:
The inscriptions on the scrolls read "[M]atheus/Zaroe[s]"
Both inscriptions partially erased.
fol. 89r:
The inscriptions on the scrolls read "Paulus/Agr[ipp]a."
The second inscription is partially obliterated.
fol. 90v:
The inscriptions on the scrolls read "Thomas/Misdeus."
Binding
The binding is not original.
Rebound in red-brown morocco in England by Lloyd, Wallis, and Lloyd in the nineteenth century; tooled fillets and florets on upper and lower covers; gilt inscription on spine reads "PSALTERIUM. ET CANTICA MS SAEC. XIII"; binder's name in small gold letters, bottom of inside upper board
Provenance
Probably made in Bruges, ca. 1250-60, for a female patron (mostly female saints in litany)
Owned by Touke family, England, from the fifteenth through the seventeenth century; calendar contains mostly erased birth and death notations for Touke family: Thomas Touke, d. January 28, 14[?], [...] Touke, noted January 30-31, William Touke, b. September 26, 1416, Henry Touke (son of John Touke of Wilton or Wiston), d. October 19, 1412; English Easter tables for 1540-1589 added; seventeenth century(?) signature of John Touke at end of text on fol. 144v (now erased)
Lloyd, Wallis, and Lloyd, England, rebound manuscript in the nineteenth century
Léon Gruel collection, Paris, by late nineteenth or early twentieth century; sales slip in French in same hand as wrote Gruel's inventory; numbers once present on front flyleaf (now removed, see file)
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel between 1895 and 1931
Acquisition
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Bibliography
De Ricci, S., 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. 770, cat. no. 86.
Trésors des bibliothèques d'Ãcosse. Brussels: Bibliothèque Royale Albert 1er, 1963. An exhibition catalog.
Randall, Lilian M. C. "Flemish Psalters in the Apostolic Tradition." In Gatherings in Honor of Dorothy Miner, edited by Ursula E. McCracken, Lilian M. C. Randall, and Richard H. Randall, Jr., 171â93. Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, 1974, figs. 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 11, 14, 24, 26 (fols. 3râ7r, 49r, 61v, 43v, 28v).
Carlvant, Kerstin. "Thirteenth-Century Illumination in Bruges and Ghent." PhD diss., Columbia University, 1978: figs. 18aâb (fols. 4, 49).
Carlvant, Kerstin. "Trends in Bruges Illumination until 1260: A propos a Psalter Connected with Ostkerke." Archives et Bibliothèques de Belgique 56 (1985): 321â63, fig. 17 (fol. 49).
Gy, Pierre-Marie. "Bulletin de liturgie." Revue des sciences philosophiques et théologiques 84 (2000): 513-544; p. 520.
Bütner, F.O. "Form and History: Der illuminierte Psalter im Westen." In The Illuminated Psalter. Edited by F.O. Bütner, 1-106. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2004; p. 63 (n. 94).
Solopova, Elizabeth. "The Liturgical Psalter in Medieval Europe." In Jewish and Christian Approaches to the Psalms: Conflict and Convergence. Edited by Susan E. Gillingham, 89-104. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013; p. 90 (n. 5).
Contributors
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Conservators: Owen, Linda; Quandt, Abigail
Contributors: Emery, Doug; Izer, Emily; Noel, William; Schuele, Allyson; Tabritha, Ariel; Toth, Michael B.; Wiegand, Kimber
Publisher
The Walters Art Museum
License
Licensed for use under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Access Rights, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode.
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