A digital facsimile of Walters Ms. W.918, Book of Hours in Dutch
Published by: The Walters Art Museum 600 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21201 http://www.thewalters.org/
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode Published 2011
This document is a digital facsimile of 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.918
Descriptive Title
Book of Hours in Dutch
Text title
Book of Hours
Abstract
This Book of Hours was created in Zwolle, Netherlands, ca. 1470. It belongs to the group of “Sarijs manuscripts,” which was named after the erroneous citation in most works that identifies the manuscripts as belonging to the same group of “Sarijs” instead of “Marijs” on January 19 of their calendars (also found in W. 918). In a study of this group by Lydia Wierda, the author suggests that these manuscripts were copied by students at the school of the Brethren of the Common Life in Zwolle and also decorated and illustrated in that city (although possibly by professional illuminators) during the period ca. 1470-90 (see Wierda, De Sarijs-handschriften). All of the principal decorative schemes and motifs in W.918, as well as the compositions of its miniatures, have close counterparts in other manuscripts belonging to the group.
Date
Ca. 1470 CE
Origin
Zwolle, Netherlands
Artist
Supplied name: Masters of the Zwolle Bible
Form
Book
Genre
Devotional
Language
The primary language in this manuscript is Dutch; Flemish.
Support material
Parchment Well-finished, thin to medium-weight, cream-colored parchment
Extent
Foliation: i+192+ii Modern pencil foliation in upper right corners on rectos; flyleaves of seventeenth-century laid paper
Collation
Formula: i, 1-2(6), 3(10,-10), 4-6(8), 7(6), 8-9(8), 10(10,-1), 11-12(8), 13(14,-1,2), 14-15(8), 16(8,-1), 17(10-10), 18(8), 19(6-1,2), 20(10,-10), 21-23(8), 24(6,-1), 25(6), ii
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Catchwords: None Signatures: None Comments: Quires begin on fols. 1(1), 7(2), 13(3), 22(4), 30(5), 38(6), 46(7), 52(8), 60(9), 68(10), 77(11), 85(12), 93(13), 105(14), 113(15), 121(16), 128(17), 137(18), 145(19), 149(20), 158(21), 166(22), 174(23), 182(24), 187(25); slice marks near the gutter on fol. 51 suggesting that a miniature has been excised before the beginning of the Hours of the Cross on fol. 52r (possibly the Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane that is now cut down and pasted in as fol. 104v, if not a different subject, such as the Crucifixion); as indicated by a stub after fol. 84, probably lacking a full-page miniature formerly inserted before the beginning of the Hours of the Holy Spirit on fol. 77r (possibly Pentecost); possibly lacking a full-page miniature formerly inserted before the beginning of the Hours of the Eternal Wisdom on fol. 105r (subject uncertain); miniature of the Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane, which has been pasted onto a blank verso as fol. 104v, not a customary subject to illustrate the text, and with its inner edge not matching the contours of the stub before fol. 105 appears to have been added Dimensions
9.8 cm wide by 14.4 cm high
Written surface
6.0 cm wide by 8.6 cm high
Layout
Columns: 1 Ruled lines: 19 Ruled in brown ink (single bounding lines, full across)
Contents
fols. 1r - 192r: Title: Book of Hours Hand note: Written in Gothic bookhand Decoration note: Four full-page miniatures surviving; six half-page historiated initials (10 lines) with wide borders; twenty-nine small decorative initials (5 lines) in gold against blue and pink grounds with foliate growths in the margins; small undecorated initials in red
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and blue throughout (1-2 lines); KL in calendar in blue on rectos; rubrics in red; text in brown ink fols. 1r - 12v: Title: Calendar Rubric: Januarius Text note: Calendar almost full; Use of Utrecht; graded in red and black Decoration note: KL in blue on rectos fols. 13v - 51r: Title: Hours of the Virgin Rubric: Hier beghint die vrouwen tijde Incipit: Here du salte opdoen Decoration note: Full-page miniature on fol. 13v; historiated initial on fol. 14r fols. 52r - 76v: Title: Long Hours of the Cross Rubric: Hier beghint die cruces ghetide Incipit: Here Ihesu Christe wi aenbeden Decoration note: Full-page miniature missing before fol. 52; historiated initial on fol. 52r fols. 77r - 103r: Title: Long Hours of the Holy Spirit Rubric: Hier beghint die hilige geest tide Incipit: Here du salte opdoen Decoration note: Full-page miniature missing before fol. 77; historiated initial on fol. 77r fols. 104v - 127r: Title: Hours of the Eternal Wisdom Rubric: Hier beghint die wijsheits getide Incipit: Mijne siele hevet die begheert Decoration note: Full-page miniature on fol. 104v; historiated initial on fol. 105r fols. 128v - 148r: Title: Seven Penitential Psalms and litany Rubric: Hier beghint die seuen Psalme Incipit: Here in dijnre uerbolghentheit
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Text note: St. Martin the first confessor in the litany, St. Agnes the first virgin Decoration note: Full-page miniature on fol. 128v; historiated initial on fol. 129r fols. 149v - 186v: Title: Office of the Dead Rubric: Hier beghint die langhe vigili Incipit: Mij hebben ommebeuanghen Decoration note: Full-page miniature on fol. 149v; historiated initial on fol. 150r fols. 187r - 192r: Title: Prayers and suffrages Contents: Fol. 187r-v: for Communion: Vanden hilighen sacramente (O here huden beghere ic toe ontfaen) [Achten-Knaus, 4, fol. 152r]; fols. 187v-188r: after Communion: Na die ontfancnis (Danc seg ic iu almachtighe God wanttu mi onweerdighe) [version of Gratias tibi ago, Domine sancte, pater omnipotens, eterne Deus ... from the missal, Achten-Knaus, 3, fol. 178r]; fols. 188r-189r: to Mary: Van onse vrou (O alre heilichste O alre soetste O alre guedertierenste) [version of Achten-Knaus, 29, fol. 205v(?), see W.165, fol. 97v]; fol. 189r-v: to one’s guardian angel: Van dinen enghel (O heilighe enghel mijns) [Meertens, VI, 18, 20] + Vs, collect; fols. 189v-190r: to St. Barbara: Van sancte Barbara (O heilighe martelaersche cristi Barbara) [Lieftinck, p. 209, fol. 213v]; fols. 190v-192r: to St. Erasmus: Van sancte Herasmus hilige martelar (Sancte Herasme heilige martelaer) [Meertens, VI, 3, 17] + Vs, collect Decoration
fol. 13v: Title: Annunciation Form: Full-page miniature Text: Hours of the Virgin fol. 14r: Title: Initial "H" with the Apocalyptic Madonna and Child
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Form: Historiated initial "H," 10 lines Text: Hours of the Virgin: matins fol. 52r: Title: Initial "H" with Man of Sorrows accompanied by the Arma Christi Form: Historiated initial "H," 10 lines Text: Hours of the Cross: matins fol. 77r: Title: Initial "H" with the Throne of Grace Trinity Form: Historiated initial "H," 10 lines Text: Hours of the Holy Spirit: matins fol. 104v: Title: Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane Form: Full-page miniature Text: Hours of the Eternal Wisdom fol. 105r: Title: Initial "M" with Christ blessing Form: Historiated initial "M," 10 lines Text: Hours of the Eternal Wisdom: matins fol. 128v: Title: Last Judgment Form: Full-page miniature Text: Seven Penitential Psalms fol. 129r: Title: Initial "H" with King David kneeling in prayer Form: Historiated initial "H," 10 lines Text: Seven Penitential Psalms fol. 149v: Title: Harrowing of hell Form: Full-page miniature Text: Office of the Dead fol. 150r: Title: Initial "M" with two souls praying in purgatory Form: Historiated initial "M," 10 lines Text: Office of the Dead
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Binding
The binding is not original. Late seventeenth-century Dutch binding; cream- colored vellum over pasteboard, gold-tooled; outer frame of double gold fillets enclosing an inner frame of the same, with canted gold crowns at the outside of each of the four corners (possibly bound in Amsterdam, ca. 1695 in the workshop of Albert Magnus; a virtually identical binding reproduced in Foot, Eloquent Witnesses); sewn on five raised bands; spine gold-tooled in six panels; edges speckled red
Provenance
Created by the "Sarijs group" of the Brethren of the Common Life in Zwolle, Netherlands, ca. 1470 (armorial device found on fol. 52r, but may be decorative and not indicate original ownership) Charles W. Reynell, London, ca. 1860 (ownership inscription in ink on back pastedown) C. H. Reynell, Memphis, Tennessee, by descent (his sales at Sotheby's, London, July 5-7, and July 26-28, 1937) Dmitri Tselos, Minnesota, 1941, by purchase in Europe George Tselos and Susan E. Tselos, by descent
Acquisition
Museum purchase and partial donation by George Tselos and Susan E. Tselos in memory of their father, Dimitri Tselos, 2006. Purchased through Michael Laird.
Bibliography
Wierda, Lydia S. De Sarijs-handschriften. Studie naar een groep laat-middeleeuwse handschriften uit de IJsselstreek (voorheen toegeschreven aan de Agnieteberg bij Zwolle). Zwolle, Netherlands: Wanders, 1995. Foot, Mirjam M., ed. Eloquent Witnesses: Bookbindings and their History. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2004, p. 46, fig. 9.
Contributors
Principal cataloger: Marrow, James 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
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Contributors: Bockrath, Diane; Boot, Christine; Dutschke, Consuelo; Emery, Doug; Noel, William; Pizzinato, Riccardo; Tabritha, Ariel; Toth, Michael B.; Valle, Chiara
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The Walters Art Museum 600 N. Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21201 http://www.thewalters.org/
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode Published 2009
This document is a digital facsimile of 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/
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode Published 2009