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Walters Ms. W.834, Prayer bookBrowse images (Browse images in a new window) | TEI in XML format
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.
Origin
Netherlands, Delft (?)
Language:
The primary language in this manuscript is Dutch; Flemish.
Support material
Parchment
Thick parchment finely finished, well surfaced on both sides
Extent
Foliation: ii+202+ii
Modern pencil foliation; not all leaves have been foliated, with foliation sometimes continuous, sometimes alternating pages; fol. 127 is double foliated, resulting in the second being labeled 127a
Collation
Formula: ii, 1(3), 2-6(8), 7(10), 8-13(8), 14(6), 15-26(8), ii
Catchwords: On the versos, bottom right corner; they are not consistent throughout the manuscript
Signatures: Modern quire numeration; in pencil, on the versos of the last folio of the quire, bottom right corner
Comments:
Dimensions
11.0 cm wide by 16.1 cm high
Written surface
69.0 cm wide by 11.7 cm high
Layout
Contents:
fols. 2v - 201r:Decoration:
fol. 2v:
fol. 3r:
The inscription around Christ reads: "OMNES DRACHT ALTYT IUDYN LIERT MYN BITTER LYN DEUM EUM SIVART."
Binding
The binding is not original.
Nineteenth-century binding; brown calfskin over wooden boards; sewn on four slit-towed straps; front and back covers tooled in blind; double frame with four leaves tooled in blind at the corners; four panels on the spine decorated with four leaves tooled in blind
Provenance
Aert de Cort and Elizabeth de Cort, sixteenth-century (inscription on fol. 1v)
Adolfo E. Schramm, nineteenth century (his bookplate on upper board pastedown)
Acquisition
Museum purchase, the W. Alton Jones Foundation Acquisition Fund, 1994
Contributors
Catalogers: Dutschke, Consuelo; Valle, Chiara; Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Conservators: Owen, Linda; Quandt, Abigail
Contributors: Bockrath, Diane; Boot, Christine; Emery, Doug; Noel, William; Pizzinato, Riccardo; 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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