A digital facsimile of selections fromWalters Ms. W.764, Vienna book of hours
Published by: The Walters Art Museum 600 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21201 http://www.thewalters.org/
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This document is a digital facsimile of selections from a manuscript belonging to the Walters Art Museum, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscripts that have been digitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details about the manuscripts at the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's website www.thewalters.org. For further information about this book, and online resources for Walters manuscripts, please contact us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message to be directed to the Department of Manuscripts.
Shelf mark
Walters Art Museum Ms. W.764
Descriptive Title
Vienna book of hours
Text title
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 MusĂŠe 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.
Date
Ca. 1460 CE
Origin
Vienna, Austria
Artist
Supplied name: Master of the Maximilian Schoolbooks Known as: Master of the Schoolbooks
Form
Book
Genre
Devotional
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
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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
Columns: 1 Ruled lines: 17-18 Ruled in brown ink
Contents
fols. 1r - 200v: Title: Book of hours Hand note: Written in hybrid Gothic bookhand with some cursive aspects, in two sizes Decoration note: Thirteen full-page miniatures missing; three extant full-page miniatures; twenty-five large decorated initials (3-7 lines), some with flowering tendrils; KL in calendar in alternating red and blue (3 lines); smaller initials in red and blue throughout the text (1-2 lines); rubrics in red; text in black ink fols. 1r - 12v: Title: Calendar Rubric: Jenner hat xxxi Tag a die besneidung Christi Text note: Calendar one-third to one-half full, graded in black and red fols. 13v - 55v: Title: Hours of the Virgin Rubric: Tagczeit von unserer Lieben frawn Schidung. Von erst die Metten
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Incipit: Herre tue auf mein Lebsen Contents: Misbound; fols. 31r-38v: matins; fols. 38v-41r: lauds; fols. 14r-16v: prime; fols. 17r-19v: terce; fols. 20r-30v: sext; fols. 42r-44v: none; fols. 45r-51v: vespers; fols. 52r-55v: compline Decoration note: Full-page miniature on fol. 13v; large decorated initials marking incipits on fols. 14r, 17r, 20r, 31r, 42r, 45r, and 52r fols. 56r - 79r: Title: Hours of the Cross Rubric: Hie hebt sich an die Tagczeit von unsers herren Marter. Von erst die Metten Incipit: Herre tu auf mein Lebsen Decoration note: Full-page miniatures on fols. 66v and 76v; large decorated initials marking incipits on fols. 56r, 64r, 67r, 69r, 71r, 73r, and 77r fols. 80r - 107r: Title: Vigils of the Holy Spirit Rubric: Hie hebt sich an die Vigili von allen gelaubigen Selen Incipit: Diten wir umball Decoration note: Large decorated initial on fol. 80r fols. 107v - 108r: Title: Prayer of the Three Kings Rubric: Das Oppfer der heiligen dreyer Kunig sprich dicz gepet Incipit: Emphach hewt werder hymelischer Vater fols. 109r - 122r: Title: Seven Penitential Psalms and litany Rubric: Hie hebent sich an die Suben Puess Psalmen von erst antiffen Decoration note: Large decorated initial on fol. 109r fols. 122r - 199r: Title: Prayers Rubric: Das gepet Incipit: Almochtiger parmiherziger
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Contents: Notable prayers: fols. 125v-127v: prayers to Mary, one's angel, and St. George; fols. 128r-129v: prayer to St. Catherine; fols. 129v-133r: prayer to the Passion of Christ and Good Friday; fols. 133r-135r: prayer to Mary; fols. 135r-136r: prayer for God's blessing; fols. 136r-140v: prayer composed by St. Augustine; fols. 140v-143v: St. Augustine prayer; fols. 143v-146r: prayer for St. Ambrosius(?); fols. 146r-158r: prayers; fols. 158r-161r: prayers to St. Anselm and Mary; fols. 161r-166v: prayers to St. Anselm and Mary; fols. 166v-171r: special prayer to Mary; fols. 172r-197r: prayer of penance and other prayers; fol. 198r-199r: prayer to John the Evangelist Decoration note: Large decorated initial with tendrils on fol. 166v; smaller decorated initials on fols. 128r, 129v, 133r, 136v, and 158r fols. 200r - 200v: Title: Added prayer to St. Christopher Contents: Prayer added to a blank folio in the sixteenth century Decoration
fol. 13v: Title: Virgin and Child Form: Full-page miniature Text: Hours of the Virgin: prime Label: This image would have originally been facing the incipit for matins, but the manuscript was misbound. fol. 66v: Title: Christ Carrying the Cross Form: Full-page miniature Text: Hours of the Cross: terce fol. 76v: Title: Entombment Form: Full-page miniature Text: Hours of the Cross: compline
Binding
The binding is not original.
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Rebound by Abigail Quandt, Walters Art Museum, 1985, with white goatskin over wooden boards and two woven clasps with metal fittings; previous binding eighteenthcentury 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 f端nfzehnten Jahrhunderts 90. Munich: Jacques Rosenthal, 1928, pp. 116-17, no. 196, pl. 20. Holter, Kurt. "Gotische Buchmalerei im s端dostdeutschen Raum." Zentralblatt f端r 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)
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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.
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This document is a digital facsimile of selections from a manuscript belonging to the Walters Art Museum, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscripts that have been digitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details about the manuscripts at the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's website www.thewalters.org. For further information about this book, and online resources for Walters manuscripts, please contact us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message to be directed to the Department of Manuscripts.
The Walters Art Museum 600 N. Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21201 http://www.thewalters.org/
Released under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode Published 2013