A digital facsimile of Walters Ms. W.30, Gloss on The lamentations of Jeremiah
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.30
Descriptive Title
Gloss on The lamentations of Jeremiah
Text title
Glossa ordinaria in lamentationes Ieremie Prophete
Author
Authority name: Gilbert, the Universal, d. 1134 As-written name: Giselbertus Autisiodorensis Supplied name: Gilbert of Auxerre Known as: Giselbertus of Auxerre Known as: Gilbertus Universalis
Abstract
This illustrated copy of The lamentations of Jeremiah with the gloss (or interpretation) of Gilbert of Auxerre was written in Austria in the second half of the twelfth century and comes from the monastery of Seitenstetten. Gilbert died in 1134, and the manuscript is an early and important witness to his text. The gloss is written in a small script and is both interlinear and marginal. This layout is typical of glossed books of the Bible from the twelfth century. The illustrations of the sack of Jerusalem and the return to Babylon give valuable information on twelfth-century armor. The manuscript is in its original binding.
Date
Second half of the 12th century CE
Origin
Austria
Form
Book
Genre
Theological
Language
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Support material
Parchment Medium to very thick parchment
Extent
Foliation: 53 Modern pencil foliation in upper right corners
Collation
Formula: 1(4,-2), 2(8), 3(10,-9), 4(8), 5(4), 6(10), 7(8), 8(6,-4,5,6) Catchwords: None Signatures: None
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Comments: Quires begin on fols. 1(1), 4(2), 12(3), 21(4), 29(5), 33(6), 43(7), 51(8); paper pastedowns hooked under the first and last quires Dimensions
18.2 cm wide by 25.8 cm high
Written surface
16.6 cm wide by 21.1 cm high
Layout
Columns: 2-3 Ruled lines: 12-48 Number of actual written lines varies by folio, but main text laid out in 12 lines, with gloss having 48 lines
Contents
fols. 1r - 53r: Title: Glossa ordinaria in lamentationes Ieremie Prophete Hand note: Written in late Caroline minuscule script with very few signs of incoming Gothic features; names of Hebrew letters as section headings in a majuscule display script; added prayers in a different hand on fol. 1r-v Decoration note: Two full-page miniatures; one halfpage miniature; two historiated initials, two inhabited initials, and one large decorated initial (all 3 to 4 lines high based on large text line spacing); some chapter prefaces framed by inhabited columns and arcades; all decoration drawn in red, black, and green ink; small red initials throughout (1 to 2 lines high); rubrics in red; text in black ink fols. 1r - 1v: Title: Added prayers Incipit: Pater noster Contents: Fol. 1r: The Lord's Prayer in Latin and transliterated Greek; fol. 1v: German prayer beginning "O schoppher aller creatur ..." Text note: Two prayers added later to a blank folio Hand note: Written in a late cursive script; both prayers apparently written in the same fifteenth- or sixteenthcentury hand fols. 2r - 53r:
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Title: Glossa ordinaria in lamentationes Ieremie Prophete Author: Gilbert, the Universal, d. 1134 Rubric: Paschasius Incipit: Sunt cantica canticorum sunt et lamentationes lamentationum Contents: Fols. 2r-3v: Forwards (Prothemata); fols. 4r-12v: Chapter 1; fol. 13r-v: Preface to chapter 2; fols. 13v-22v: Chapter 2; fol. 23r: Preface to chapter 3; fols. 23v-37r: Chapter 3; fols. 37v-38r: Preface to chapter 4; fols. 38r-46v: Chapter 4; fols. 47v-48r: Preface to chapter 5; fols. 48r-53r: Chapter 5 Text note: Text complete Decoration note: Two full-page miniatures; one halfpage miniature; two historiated initials, two inhabited initials, and one large decorated initial (all 3 to 4 lines high based on large text line spacing); some chapter prefaces framed by inhabited columns and arcades; all decoration drawn in red, black, and green ink; small red initials throughout (1 to 2 lines high); rubrics in red; text in black ink Decoration
fol. 2r: Title: Arcade with facing dragons Form: Inhabited arcade Text: Prefatory material fol. 2v: Title: Arcade with orant figure Form: Inhabited arcade Text: Prefatory material fol. 3r: Title: King Nebuchadnezzar orders soldiers to lay siege to Jerusalem; Jerusalem is taken Form: Full-page miniature in two registers Text: Jeremiah 39:1-3; Jeremiah 39:8
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fol. 3v: Title: Execution of King Sedekiah of Judah's sons; Blinding of Sedekiah; Return to Babylon with the blinded king; Jeremiah lamenting before a walled city Form: Full-page miniature in three registers Text: Jeremiah 39:6-9 fol. 4r: Title: Initial "Q" with Jeremiah lamenting Form: Historiated initial "Q," 4 large lines Text: Chapter 1 fol. 13r: Title: Arcade with vultures, masks, and beasts Form: Inhabited arcade Text: Preface to chapter 2 fol. 13v: Title: Decorated initial "Q" Form: Decorated initial "Q," 4 large lines Text: Chapter 2 fol. 23r: Title: Arcade with lions, masks, and beasts Form: Inhabited arcade Text: Preface to chapter 3 fol. 23v: Title: Initial "E" with Jeremiah mourning Form: Historiated initial "E," 3 large lines Text: Chapter 3 fol. 37v: Title: Arcade with a hunter and a scribe Form: Inhabited arcade Text: Preface to chapter 4 fol. 38r: Title: Initial "Q" with a dragon Form: Inhabited initial "Q," 4 large lines Text: Chapter 4 fol. 47v: Title: Jeremiah praying in the temple
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Form: Half-page miniature Text: Preface to chapter 5 fol. 48r: Title: Initial "R" with a dragon Form: Inhabited initial "R," 3 large lines Text: Chapter 5 Binding
The binding is original. Plain alum-tawed leather over oak(?) boards; center foreedge strap meant to fasten to pin on upper board missing; sewn on three alum-tawed straps; endbands of a single rolled alum-tawed core, worked with similar thread to main sewing; double blind lines on each band; saltire cross formed from two double lines on upper board; five small steel studs once on each board, with a six-petaled impression remaining from each of them
Provenance
Made in Austria in the second half of the twelfth century Petrus de Anaso, Weyer (ca. 1500 inscription partially erased on front pastedown reading, "Anno etc. 30. Liber dom.[?] Petri de Anaso dominum socio in hospitai Wienn[ensi]") Johannus Hofulner(?) (sixteenth-century inscription on front pastedown reading, "Hic libellus est Joh[annis] hofulner[?] de Wey[er]") Benedictine monastery of Seitenstetten by early twentieth century (seen by Hanns Swarzenski there) Jacques Rosenthal, owned as of 1928, cat. 90, no. 139 Leo S. Olschki, after 1928 (bookplate on front pastedown) Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Olschki before 1931
Acquisition
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Bibliography
Bibliotheca Medii Aevi Manuscripta. Pars Altera: Einhundert Handschriften des Mittelalters vom zehnten bis zum f端nfzehnten Jahrhunderts. Munich: Jacques Rosenthal, 1928, pp. 40-42, no. 139, pl. 7 (fol. 3r).
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De Ricci, Seymour. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935, p. 821, no. 388. Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Arts of the Middle Ages. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1940, p. 7, no. 18. Walters Art Gallery. Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1949, p. 13, no. 28, pl. 19 (fol. 3r). Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1953, no. 14 (fol. 3r). Walters Art Gallery. 4,000 Years of Modern Art. Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, 1953, p. 19, no. 59. Diringer, David. The Illuminated Book: Its History and Production. London: Faber and Faber, 1958, pp. 181-182, pl. 3-32c (fol. 3r). Temple Emanu El. Festival of the Bible in the Arts. Houston: Temple Emanu El, 1964, no. 73. The Israel Museum. Old Masters and the Bible. Jerusalem: Japhet Press, 1965, no. 59 (fol. 3v). Reeves, Marjorie. Then and There: The Medieval Castle. 2nd ed. London: Longmans, 1988, p. 21. Von Hülsen-Esch, Andrea. Romanische Skulptur in Oberitalien: als Reflex der kommunalen Entwicklung im 12. Jahrhundert. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1994, p. 150, fig. 69 (fol. 3r). Pirker-Aurenhammer, Veronika. Die Gumbertusbibel: Codex 1 der Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen: Ein Regensburger Bildprogramm des späten 12. Jahrhunderts. Regensburg: Universitätsverlag, 1998, pp. 169-170, figs. 76-77 (fol. 3r-v). Andrée, Alexander. Gilbertus Universalis Glossa Ordinaria in Lamentationes Ieremie Prophete Prothemata et Liber I: A Critical Edition with an Introduction and a Translation.
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Stockholm: Almquist and Wiksell International, 2005, p. 89 (as de Ricci 388). 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; Clarkson, Christopher; Dutschke, Consuelo; Emery, Doug; Hamburger, Jeffrey; Noel, William; Tabritha, Ariel; Toth, Michael B.
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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