A digital facsimile of Walters Ms. W.805, Bible (part) Title: Bible (Jerome's prefaces, Pentateuch, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, chapter lists)
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.805
Descriptive Title
Bible (part)
Text title
Bible (Jerome's prefaces, Pentateuch, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, chapter lists)
Abstract
This large-scale manuscript contains the first eight Old Testament books, Genesis through Ruth. The date of completion is given as February 2, 1507. The illumination of the Creation within a cosmographic scheme is based in part on the woodcut illustrations of the Creation in the 1483 Koberger Bible and the 1493 Nuremberg chronicle by the same printer. Large historiated initials mark the beginning of each book. This large-format form of the Bible was revived in the low countries and Rhineland in the mid fifteenth century; later in the century such books were being made in southeast Germany and Bohemia. The style of the miniatures in this manuscript is typical of upper Austrian miniature painting of the later fifteenth century.
Date
Dated February 2, 1507 CE
Origin
Austria or Bohemia
Form
Book
Genre
Scriptural
Language
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Colophon
fol. 160v: Transliteration: 1507 4 nonas februarias Translation: February 2, 1507
Support material
Parchment Cream-colored parchment of medium thickness
Extent
Foliation: i+160+i Foliation in pencil in upper right corners of rectos; flyleaves of added laid paper
Collation
Formula: i, 1-20(8), i Catchwords: None
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Signatures: Sheet signatures of the type ai, aii, aiii, aiiii visible at the bottom right corners of the rectos of the first four leaves of each quire, in most cases Comments: Quires begin on fols. 1(1), 9(2), 17(3), 25(4), 33(5), 41(6), 49(7), 57(8), 65(9), 73(10), 81(11), 89(12), 97(13), 105(14), 113(15), 121(16), 129(17), 137(18), 145(19), 153(20) Dimensions
29.7 cm wide by 42.3 cm high
Written surface
20.5 cm wide by 31.5 cm high
Layout
Columns: 2 Ruled lines: 34 Ruled in light brown ink
Contents
fols. 1r - 160v: Title: Bible (Jerome's prefaces, Pentateuch, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, chapter lists) Contents: Fols. 1r-5v: Incipit epistola beati hieronymi presbyteri ad Paulinum presbiteram de omnibus divine hystorie libris (Frater Ambrosius [Stegm端ller 284]); fols. 5v-6r: Incipit prefatio beati hieronimi presbiteri in Pentateucum (Desiderii mei desideratas accepi [Stegm端ller 285]); fol. 6r: Incipit liber Genesis qui dicitur Hebraice bresith. Capitulum primum; fols. 6v-37v: Genesis; fols. 37v-61v: Incipit liber Hellesmoth quem nos Exodi dicimus. Capitulum primum, Exodus; fols. 62r-78r: Incipit vagethra id est liber Leviticus. Capitulum primum, Leviticus; fol. 78r: Incipit vadegeber id est Numeri. Capitulum primum; fols. 78v-102r: Numbers; fols. 102r-124r: Incipit liber Elleaddaberim qui Deuteronomium prenotatur. De quorumdam mandatorum epilogatione cum determinatoribus quibusdam additis. Capitulum primum, Deuteronomy; fols. 124r-124v: Incipit prologus beati hieronymi presbyteri in librum Iosue (Tandem finito Pentateucho [Stegm端ller 311]); fol. 124v: Incipit argumentum (Iesus filius nave typum [Stegm端ller 307]); fols. 124v-140r: Incipit liber
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Iosue. De Iosue qualiter receptus est in locum Moysi et eius edicto ad principes de transmeatione Iordani. Capitulum primum, Joshua; fols. 140r-155v: Incipit liber Sopthim quem nos Iudicium appellamus. Quomodo Iudas pugnavit contra chananeum absque deletionem aliquorum habitantium in terra. Capitulum primum, Judges; fols. 155v-157v: Incipit liber Ruth. De peregrinatione elimelech et Noemi uxoris sue tempore famis in regione moabitarum ac de reditu eiusdem cum Ruth nuru sua. Capitulum primum, Ruth; fols. 158r-158v: Incipit capitulatio libri Genesis. L. Capitula continentis (De creatione celi Empirei); fols. 158v-159v: Incipit capitulatio libri Exodi. XL. Capitula continentis (De servitute et oneribus filiorum Israel); fols. 159v-160r: Incipit capitulatio libri Levitici qui XXVII continet capitula (De holocaustis filiorum Israhel); fols. 160r-160v: Incipit capitulatio libri Numerorum qui in XXXVI dividitur capitula Hand note: Written in Gothic bookhand (textura); chapter list and colophon written in a second hand; punctus flexus punctuation possibly indicating Cistercian or Carthusian use Decoration note: One half-page miniature; eight large historiated initials (11 lines); chapter initials in red or blue throughout (3 lines); headings, rubrics, and explicits in red; rubric to preface on fol. 1r in gold; text in dark brown ink Decoration
fol. 1r: Title: St. Jerome in his study Form: Historiated initial "F," 9 lines Text: Jerome's letter to Paulinus fol. 6v: Title: Creation of the world and Eve Form: Half-page miniature Text: Genesis fol. 37v: Title: Moses before the burning bush Form: Historiated initial "H," 11 lines
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Text: Exodus fol. 62r: Title: Moses explains the law to two Israelites Form: Historiated initial "V," 11 lines Text: Leviticus fol. 78v: Title: God appears to Moses and a group of Israelites Form: Historiated initial "L," 11 lines Text: Numbers fol. 102r: Title: Moses preaches to the Israelites from a pulpit Form: Historiated initial "H," 11 lines Text: Deuteronomy fol. 124v: Title: Joshua, in silver armor, leads the assault on Jericho Form: Historiated initial "E," 11 lines Text: Joshua fol. 140r: Title: Samson kills the lion Form: Historiated initial "P," 11 lines Text: Judges fol. 155v: Title: Naomi and Ruth Form: Historiated initial "I," 11 lines Text: Ruth Binding
The binding is original. Blind-stamped tanned leather over heavy wooden boards; sewn in six bands; boards ruled with a frame and diaper pattern and stamped with floral tools, as well as lozengeshaped rosettes, lilies, and quatrefoils; nine (of the original ten) elaborate, pierced metal fittings for stubs of clasps and catches present (clasps themselves lacking); extensively rebacked
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Provenance
Finished on February 2, 1507, in Bohemia(?); made for monastic use, probably Cistercian or Carthusian Unknown monastic owner, eighteenth century ("Nr. 78" written on front pastedown) November 9, 1931, Sotheby's London, lot 216, to Marks(?) Otto Ege, Cleveland, bought in 1932 from E. Dawson, Los Angeles Walters Art Museum, December 11, 1984, purchased from Sotheby's London, no. 54
Acquisition
Museum purchase
Bibliography
De Ricci, Seymour. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 2. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1937, p. 1938, no. 6. Randall, Lilian M. C. "Tradition in Transition." The Walters Art Gallery Bulletin 38, no. 3 (1984): 1-2. Hindman, Sandra. Important Western Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts and Illuminated Leaves. Akron, OH: Bruce Ferrini, 1987, p. 53. Kรถnig. Eberhard. "The History of Art and the History of the Book at the Time of Transition from Manuscript to Print." In Bibliography and the Study of 15th-Century Civilization: Papers Presented at a Colloquium at the British Library, 26-28 September 1984, edited by Lotte Hellinga and John Goldfinch. London: British Library, 1987, pp. 154-184, n. 62.
Contributors
Cataloger: 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; Sciacca, Christine; 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