A digital facsimile of selections fromWalters Ms. W.9, Lectionary
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.9
Descriptive Title
Lectionary
Text title
Lectionary
Abstract
This Lectionary was created ca. 1000 in Trier. Written in a clear Caroline minuscule, it contains decorated initials at the openings of important readings. A set of illuminated letters marks the beginning of the Epistle and Gospel lessons for Easter; they display the hierarchy of scripts with capital letters decorated with gold leaf or drawn in red ink, followed by uncial and Caroline minuscule. Initials in orange, sometimes filled with gold, mark the divisions of the text. The book has been stylistically compared with Ottonian manuscripts, especially with a Psalter preserved in Trier (Stadtbibliothek, Ms. 7) illuminated by the so-called Master of the Registrum Gregorii.
Date
Ca. 1000 CE
Origin
Trier, Germany
Form
Book
Genre
Liturgical
Language
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Support material
Parchment Thin to medium-weight parchment; hair still visible on skin, especially toward the end of the manuscript
Extent
Foliation: iii+361+iii First front and back flyleaves are modern paper, glued to black silk also used as pastedown; the other front and back flyleaves are modern parchment
Collation
Formula: Undetermined Catchwords: None Signatures: None Comments: Binding too tight to see stitching
Dimensions
10.9 cm wide by 13.8 cm high
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Written surface
7.8 cm wide by 10.5 cm high
Layout
Columns: 1 Ruled lines: 16
Contents
fols. 1r - 361v: Title: Lectionary Hand note: Capital letters for rubrics; Caroline minuscule for text Decoration note: Large gold, or gold on blue, initials for major feasts (6 lines); red initials (2 to 4 lines) filled with gold for relevant lections; red initials (2 lines) mark the lections throughout; gold rubric at the beginning of the manuscript; rubrics in alternating red and brown lines for Easter; text in brown ink fols. 1r - 332r: Title: Gospel and Epistle readings Rubric: Lectio epistolae beati Pauli apostoli ad Romanos Incipit: Paulus servus Christi Iesu vocatus apostolus Contents: Temporal (feasts of Christ) and Sanctoral (feasts of the saints) are combined; full text of the Epistle readings; incipits are provided only for Gospel readings Decoration note: Large illuminated initials fols. 217v, 244v, 310r, and 315v fols. 332r - 338v: Title: Common of the saints Rubric: In vigilia omnium apostolorum. Lectio libri sapientiae Incipit: Beatus vir qui inventus est sine macula Decoration note: Rubrics in red ink; red capital initials (2 or 3 lines) at the beginning of each text fols. 338v - 360r: Title: Lections for votive masses Decoration note: Red initials (2 lines) mark the lections; empty space has been left for rubrics fols. 360r - 361v:
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Title: Added lections for masses Rubric: Lectio libri Apocalipsis. Iohannis apostoli Incipit: In diebus illis vidit civitatem sanctam Contents: Texts added in the eleventh century: fol. 360r: Apoc. 21:2-5, dedication of a church; fol. 360v: Mal. 3:1-4, purification of the Virgin; fols. 361r-v: 2 Cor. 3:4-9, week 13 after Pentecost Decoration
fol. 1r: Title: Initial "P" Form: Decorated initial "P," 9 lines Text: Gospel and Epistle Lections: Epistle to the Romans fol. 152v: Title: Fratres Form: Decorated letters "F," 6 lines; "R" and "A," 3 lines Text: Gospel and Epistle Lections: Easter fol. 153v: Title: Initial "I" Form: Decorated initial "I," 7 lines Text: Gospel and Epistle Lections: Mark 1:1 fol. 186v: Title: Initial "D" Form: Initial "D," 4 lines Text: Gospel and Epistle Lections: Pentecost
Binding
The binding is not original. Early twentieth-century dark blue morocco, made in Paris by LĂŠon Gruel; upper cover decorated with the word "Lectionarium" with edges in gold and letters in crimson; the initial "L" has vine decoration and stems in crimson, green, and blue; gold tooling around the edge of binding
Provenance
Made in Trier in the early eleventh century LĂŠon Gruel, Paris, early twentieth century
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Henry Walters, Baltimore, by purchase from Gruel before 1931 Acquisition
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Bibliography
De Ricci, Seymour, and William J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. 2 vols. New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1935, p. 768, no. 69. Nordenfalk, Carl. "Der Meister des Registrum Gregorii." Munchener Jahrbuch der Bildenden Kunst 3, no. 1 (1950): p. 64, fig. 7. Nitschke, Brigitte. Die Handschriftengruppe um den Meister des Registrum Gregorii. Recklinghausen: Verlag Aurel Bongers, 1966. Austin, Gerard. "Bibliographie: Liturgical Manuscripts in the United States and Canada." Scriptorium 28 (1974): p. 99. Hoffman, Hartmut. "Buchkunst und Koeningtum im ottonischen unde fruesalischen Reich." Schriften der Monumenta Germaniae Historica 30, no. 1 (1986): p. 454. Clarkson, Christopher. "Rediscovering Parchment: The Nature of the Beast." The Paper Conservator 16 (1992): pp. 5-26.
Contributors
Catalogers: Valle, Chiara; Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934 Editors: Herbert, Lynley; Noel, William Copy editor: Dibble, Charles Conservators: Owen, Linda; Quandt, Abigail Contributors: Bockrath, Diane; 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