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Walters Ms. W.44, Psalter for Cistercian female supplicantBrowse images (Browse images in a new window) | TEI in XML format
Manuscript
Psalter for Cistercian female supplicant
Abstract
This biblical Psalter was created in French Flanders for a lady with Cistercian connections in the third quarter of the thirteenth century. Fourteenth-century additions for the use of a woman suggest that it continued to be used by female supplicants for some time after its creation. A prefatory cycle of ten full-page miniatures was also added in the fourteenth century, which complemented the original, and more traditional, series of ten historiated initials found within the Psalter.
Date
Third quarter of the 13th century CE
Origin
Northeast France (Flanders at the time)
Language:
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Support material
Parchment
Medium-weight, cream-colored parchment; well prepared
Extent
Foliation: v+207+v
Modern pencil foliation lower right corners, rectos
Collation
Formula: Quire 1: 12 (fols. 1-12); Quire 2: 1, is a singleton (fols. 13); Quire 3: 4 (fols. 14-17); Quire 4: 10 (fols. 18-27); Quires 5-13: 8 (fols. 28-99); Quire 14: 6 (fols. 100-105); Quire 15-19: 8 (fols. 106-145); Quire 20: 6 (fols. 146-151); Quire 21-27: 8 (fols. 152-207)
Catchwords: Some lost during cropping; remains of catchwords visible beginning on fol. 35v
Signatures: Occasionally found on rectos of first folio in quire
Comments:
Dimensions
10.0 cm wide by 15.4 cm high
Written surface
7.0 cm wide by 10.2 cm high
Layout
Contents:
fols. 1r - 207v:Decoration:
fol. 18v:
fol. 19r:
fol. 20v:
fol. 21r:
fol. 22v:
fol. 23r:
fol. 24v:
fol. 25r:
fol. 26v:
fol. 27r:
fol. 28r:
fol. 51v:
fol. 67v:
fol. 82r:
fol. 82v:
fol. 97r:
fol. 116r:
fol. 133r:
fol. 135v:
fol. 152r:
Binding
The binding is not original.
Rebound in the early twentieth century in burnt sienna velvet, and housed at that time in a telescopic case, by Léon Gruel, Paris; edges gilt; earlier binding described in Rosenthal catalog as having been brown calf, with monogram "P P L" within a series of four "S's" struck through with a vertical line
Provenance
Made for a lady with Cistercian connections in the third quarter of the thirteenth century; evidence includes initial with woman kneeling in prayer fol. 136v, and Cistercian saints in calendar
Second female owner suggested by fourteenth-century addition of prayers to Virgin for female supplicant, fols. 15r-17r
Jacques Rosenthal collection, Munich; 1901 dealer catalog 27, no. 74
Léon Gruel, Paris, early twentieth century; Gruel and Engelmann bookplate on front flyleaf i,v, inscribed "No. 63"
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel between 1902 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. 80.
Miner, Dorothy. Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Exhibition Catalogue. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1949; cat. no. 53.
Diringer, David. The Illuminated Book: Its History and Production. London: Faber and Faber, 1958; p. 386.
Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 1, pt. 1. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989; pp. 75-77, cat. no. 32.
Bousmanne, Bernard. Item à Guillaume Wyelant aussi enlumineur: Willem Vrelant, un aspect de l'enluminure dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux sous le mécénat des ducs de Bourgogne Philippe le Bon et Charles le Téméraire. Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1997; p. 367 (n. 202).
Noel, William, and Daniel Weiss. The Book of Kings: Art, War, and the Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible. London: Third Millennium Publishing; Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, 2002, p. 163, cat. no. 12.
Bennett, Adelaide. "The Transformation of the Gothic Psalter." In The Illuminated Psalter. Edited by F.O. Bütner, 211-222. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2004; p. 219 (n. 43).
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; Noel, William; Schuele, Allyson; Sedovic, Katherine; Tabritha, Ariel; Toth, Michael B.; Wiegand, Kimber
Publisher
The Walters Art Museum
License
Licensed for use under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Access Rights, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode. It is requested that copies of any published articles based on the information in this data set be sent to the curator of manuscripts, The Walters Art Museum, 600 North Charles Street, Baltimore MD 21201.
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