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Walters Ms. W.732, Single leaf and fragment with Crucifixion and colophonBrowse images (Browse images in a new window) | TEI in XML format
Manuscript
Single leaf and fragment with Crucifixion and colophon
Text title
Prayer book fragments
Abstract
This manuscript fragment provides valuable clues about the prayer book of which it was once a part. The colophon on the verso of the image records that the manuscript was written at the Monastery of SS. Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg, Germany, in 1516 by the prolific scribe Leonhard Wirstlin, known also as Leonhard Wagner. The image on the recto, a simple but expressive drawing of the crucified Christ, may be connected to another important figure from the time, as it is believed to be the work of an artist from the circle of Hans Holbein the Elder. A painted floral border, now missing its accompanying text, has traditionally been paired with the intact leaf and is presumed to have come from the same manuscript. Although the illuminations are striking, the main leaf was originally purchased by the Walters not for its art but for its script: it provides an excellent example of what is referred to as Augsburg Maximilian script, which has interesting parallels in printed works of the same period.
Artist
Supplied name: School of Hans Holbein the Elder
Scribe
As-written name: Leonhardum Wirstlin
Known as: Leonhard Wagner
Language:
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Colophon
fol. W.732Av:Support material
Parchment
Medium-weight, heavily worn parchment
Extent
Foliation: Not applicable
Collation
Formula: Not applicable
Comments:
Dimensions
10.9 cm wide by 13.7 cm high
Written surface
8.5 cm wide by 11.8 cm high
Layout
Contents:
fols. W.732Ar - W.732Bv:Decoration:
fol. W.732Ar:
Attributed to an artist of the school of Hans Holbein the Elder.
fol. W.732Br:
Provenance
Leaf was originally the colophon of a prayer book, written at the Monastery of SS. Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg, Germany, in 1516 by friar Leonhard Wirstlin
Ed. Schultze, before 1901, his stamp on recto; sold in his sale in Munich, February 7-15, 1901
Fred Werther, Baltimore, before 1945
Walters Art Museum, purchased from Werther in May 1945, for $10.00
Acquisition
Museum purchase
Bibliography
Faye, C. U. and W. H. Bond. Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York, 1962, p. 197, no. 559.
Miner, Dorothy. "Since de Ricci--Western Illuminated Manuscripts Acquired since 1934: A Report in Two Parts: Part 1." Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 29-30 (1966): pp. 68-103, pp. 100-103, figs. 23, 24.
"Bulletin Codicologique." Scriptorium 26 (1972): pp. 130-246, p. 208, no. 402.
Contributors
Catalogers: Dutschke, Consuelo; Herbert, Lynley; Noel, William; Sciacca, Christine; Valle, Chiara
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Conservators: Owen, Linda; Quandt, Abigail
Contributors: Bockrath, Diane; Davis, Lisa Fagin; Emery, Doug; Hamburger, Jeffrey; Klemm, Elizabeth; Noel, William; Tabritha, Ariel; Toth, Michael B.
Publisher
The Walters Art Museum
License
Licensed for use under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Access Rights, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-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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