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Manuscript
Vienna book of hours
Abstract
This book of hours was written in German in Vienna, Austria, ca. 1460-65. It is one of a series of manuscripts commissioned at the court of Emperor Frederick III of Austria (1415-1493), some of which were made for his son, Prince Maximilian (1459-1519). The name of the artist is unknown, but due to his connection with these commissions, he is known as the Master of the Maximilian Schoolbooks. Unfortunately, only three of the original sixteen full-page, richly painted miniatures remain in this manuscript, but ten of the missing folios have been identified. Nine cuttings are in the Musée Bonnat, Bayonne, France (inv. nr. 1244-1252), and one cutting is in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Dudley P. Allen Fund Accession 1959.40). Other related manuscripts include Vienna, Nationalbibliothek Codicies 2368, 2617, and 2289.
Artist
Supplied name: Master of the Maximilian Schoolbooks
Known as: Master of the Schoolbooks
Language:
The primary language in this manuscript is German, Middle High (ca.1050-1500). The secondary language of this manuscript is Latin.
Support material
Parchment
Medium-weight, clean, cream-colored parchment, well finished
Extent
Foliation: ii+200+ii
Modern pencil foliation in upper right corners of rectos; flyleaves of modern parchment
Collation
Formula: ii, 1(12), 2(8), 3(10), 4(8), 5(10,-10), 6(10,-10), 7-8(8), 9(10,-1), 10-20(10), 21(10,-10), ii
Catchwords: None
Signatures: None
Comments: Misbound and incomplete; quires begin on fols. 1(1), 13(2), 21(3), 31(4), 39(5), 48(6), 57(7), 65(8), 73(9), 82(10), 92(11), 102(12), 112(13), 122(14), 132(15), 142(16), 152(17), 162(18), 172(19), 182(20), 192(21); all leaves tipped in for quires 2, 5, and 6; outer leaves tipped in for quire 7; inner four leaves tipped in for quire 8; fols. 31-41 should come before fol. 13
Dimensions
11.8 cm wide by 16.8 cm high
Written surface
7.2 cm wide by 11.0 cm high
Layout
Contents:
fols. 1r - 200v:Decoration:
fol. 13v:
fol. 66v:
fol. 76v:
Binding
The binding is not original.
Rebound by Abigail Quandt, Walters Art Museum, 1985, with white goatskin over wooden boards and two woven clasps with metal fittings; previous binding eighteenth-century green silk over heavy pasteboard (now housed separately)
Provenance
Vienna, Austria, ca. 1460-65, with illuminations by the Master of the Maximilian Schoolbooks (probably commissioned by a member of the court of Emperor Frederick III of Austria [1415-1493] for his son Prince Maximilian [1459-1519] due to its similarity to other manuscripts made for him)
Bernard Quaritch, London, 1910 (no. 238)
C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, November 28, 1912 (Auction CX)
Jacques Rosenthal, Munich, 1928 (Catalog 90, no. 196) and 1929 (Catalog 91, no. 6)
Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, purchased from H. P. Krauss, New York, 1959 (Catalog 88, no. 14)
Acquisition
Museum purchase, January 1959
Bibliography
Bibliotheca Medii Aevi Manuscripta. Pars Altera: Einhundert Handschriften des Mittelalters vom zehnten bis zum fünfzehnten Jahrhunderts 90. Munich: Jacques Rosenthal, 1928, pp. 116-17, no. 196, pl. 20.
Holter, Kurt. "Gotische Buchmalerei im südostdeutschen Raum." Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen 57 (1940): 23-35, no. 2.
Faye, C. U., and W. H. Bond. Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962, p. 200, no. 578.
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): 68-103, figs. 19-21 (fols. 13v, 66v, 76v)
Bulletin Codicologique. Scriptorium 26 (1972): 130-246; no. 402.
Hamburger, Jeffrey. "Bosch's Conjuror: An Attack on Magic and Sacramental Heresy." Simiolus 14, no. 1 (1984): 4-23, no. 41.
Cermann, Regina. Katalog der dutschprachigen illustrierten Handschriften des Mittelalters 5. Munich: Veröffentlichung der Kommission für deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2002, pp. 28-32.
Pfändtner, Karl-Georg. "The Long-Lost Cuttings of a Fifteenth-Century Austrian Prayerbook (W.764) in the Walters Art Museum." Journal of the Walters Art Museum 64 (2005): 103-8.
Contributors
Principal cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Catalogers: Herbert, Lynley; Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editors: Herbert, Lynley; Noel, William
Copy editor: Bockrath, Diane
Conservators: Owen, Linda; Quandt, Abigail
Contributors: Bockrath, Diane; Dutschke, Consuelo; Emery, Doug; Hamburger, Jeffrey; 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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