gospels of abbot duden, walters art museum ms. w.5

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A digital facsimile of selections fromWalters Ms. W.5, Gospels of Abbot Duden

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This document is a digital facsimile of selections from a manuscript belonging to the Walters ArtMuseum, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscriptsthat have been digitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment forthe Humanities, and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details aboutthe manuscripts at the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's websitewww.thewalters.org. For further information about this book, and online resources for Waltersmanuscripts, please contact us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message tobe directed to the Department of Manuscripts.

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Shelf mark Walters Art Museum Ms. W.5

Descriptive Title Gospels of Abbot Duden

Text title Gospel Book

Abstract This small Gospel Book was made in Werden, Germany, inthe eleventh century. Its size indicates that it was intended fordaily, personal use, and a series of ownership inscriptions onthe first folio, which trace the ownership of the manuscriptamong several members of the clergy, provides insight intoits use. Although the book contains little decoration, withno canon tables or ornamental initials, the Gospels areintroduced by three brown- and red-ink pen drawings ofthe Evangelists, two of which were embedded into the endof the previous Gospel by the artist. The manuscript is,however, incomplete and lacks the end of Matthew as wellas the portrait of Mark, which was likely incorporated intoMatthew's explicit page, as was done with the other portraits.

Date 11th century CE

Origin Werden, Germany

Form Book

Genre Scriptural

Language The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.

Support material Parchment

Cream-colored parchment of medium thickness; threeflyleaves on either end of manuscript are made of laid paper

Extent Foliation: v+133+vTwo sets of foliation present: one in pencil in upper rightcorners, which is not accurate and may reflect additionalmaterials at the beginning of the book that are no longerpresent; second set of foliation in pencil lower right corners(used here); foliation includes a sixth front flyleaf as fol. 1

Collation Formula: 1(2,-2), 2-5(8), 6(8,-5), 7-9(8), 10-11(6), 12-18(8),19(2,-2)

Catchwords: None

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Signatures: None

Comments: Quires begin on fols. 1(1), 2(2), 10(3), 18(4),26(5), 34(6), 41(7), 49(8), 57(9), 65(10), 71(11), 77(12),85(13), 93(14), 101(15), 109(16), 117(17), 125(18), and133(19)

Dimensions 9.2 cm wide by 12.6 cm high

Written surface 7.5 cm wide by 10.4 cm high

Layout Columns: 1Ruled lines: 24Hard point ruling

Contents fols. 1r - 133v:Title: Gospel BookContents: Incomplete; Matthew's Gospel lacks 28:12 toend; no canon tables or prefatory matterHand note: Late Caroline minuscule; two scribesevident, second responsible for fols. 150r-166vDecoration note: Three pen-drawn Evangelist portraitsin brown and red ink; enlarged red initials throughout(2-6 lines); incipits in red or brown with red-filledletters; brown-and-red combined pen trails descendingvertically from bottom line of text on a number offolios; headings above Gospel texts in red; Gospel textin brown ink

fols. 1r - 1v:Title: Ownership inscriptionsIncipit: Hunc mihi donavit Stephano venerabilisText note: Ownership notes added, starting in 1597, tofront flyleaf; for further details, see Provenance

fols. 2r - 122r:Title: GospelsRubric: Inicium sancti Evangelii secundum MatheusIncipit: Liber generationisContents: Incomplete; fols. 2v-37v: Gospel of Matthew(lacks 28:12-end); fol. 38r: verse preface to Mark(Marcus divini petro narrante repletus); fols 38r-59v:

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Mark; fol. 60r: verse preface to Luke (Lucas oredei medicina fultus at inde); fols. 60r-95r: Luke; fol.95v: verse preface to John (Virgo supra pectus christiaccubitare johannes); fols. 95v-122r: JohnDecoration note: Full-page Evangelist portrait beforeMatthew (fol. 2r), 3/4-page portraits of Luke, embeddedin end of Mark (fol. 59v), and John, embedded in end ofLuke (fol. 95r); portrait for Mark is lacking, and likelywas lost along with end of Matthew; Luke's portrait hasMark's lion symbol instead of the bull

fols. 122v - 133v:Title: List of readings for the liturgical yearIncipit: Cum esset desponsata

fols. 38r - 38r; 60r - 60r; 95v - 95v:Title: Verse preface to GospelsContents: Verses from Alcuin's Carmen LXXI arewritten on fols. 38r, 60r, and 95v, at the beginningof the Gospels of Mark, Luke, and John; the versesfor Matthew are missing; on fol. 38r the text forMark reads, "Marcus divini Petro narrante repletus |Faminis effremuit vox ut deserta ferarum | (Q)uo pingitorva decuit sub fronte leonis | Dogmata post fideituta est Aegyptus eb ipso | (N)orman et apostolicaecomplevit legi utrimque;" on fol. 60r the carmen forLuke reads, "Lucas ore dei medicina fultus at inde |Scribens gesta dei novit moderamina legi | Quodquesacerdotum meminit praesumere iura | Aligeri faciemnovit gestare iuvenci;" on fol. 95v the verses for Johnread, "Virgo supra pectus Christi accubitare Iohannes |In caena meruit viva exanclaudo fluenta | Scilicet hincaquile petiit trans aethera rationi | Qualiter et populoushabitans verbum caro factum est."Text note: The carmen refers to the character ofthe Gospels. A Gospel Book in the Herzog AugustBibliothek in Wolfenbüttel with the shelf mark Cod.Guelf. 16 Aug. 2° (Heinemann-Nr. 2186), containsverses taken from the same carmen on fols. 4v, 47v, 78v,and 130v. The digitized manuscript can be seen at thisaddress:http://dbs.hab.de/mss/?list=ms&id=16-aug-2f

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Decoration fol. 2r:Title: Portrait of Evangelist MatthewForm: Full-page miniatureText: Opening of Matthew's Gospel

fol. 59v:Title: Portrait of Evangelist LukeForm: Three-quarter-page miniatureText: Opening of Luke's Gospel

fol. 95r:Title: Portrait of Evangelist JohnForm: Full-page miniatureText: Opening of John's Gospel

Binding The binding is not original.

Red velvet over cardboard, gilded edges; bound by LéonGruel, Paris, late nineteenth century

Provenance Werden, Germany, early eleventh century (?)

Abbot Duden, St. Liudger, Helmstadt, ca. 1573, inscriptionfol. 1r

Stephanus Campmann, Benedictine Abbey, Werden, 1597;a German inscription on fol. 1r identifies StephanusCampmann of Büderich (d. 1644), a monk of Werden, asthe recipient of the book given to him by Abbot Duden(1593-1601) of St. Luidger in Helmstadt

Prior Heinrich Meibom, St. Liudger, Helmstadt, before1625; a second German inscription on fol. 1r states thatStephanus Campmann gave the manuscript to HeinrichMeibom through Prior Heinrich of St. Liudger

Gruel and Engelmann collection no. 64, Paris, late nineteenthcentury

Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired from Léon Gruel before1931

Acquisition Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest

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Contributors Catalogers: Dutschke, Consuelo; Herbert, Lynley; Noel,William; Sciacca, Christine; Valle, ChiaraEditor: Herbert, LynleyCopy editor: Dibble, CharlesConservators: Owen, Linda; Quandt, AbigailContributors: Bockrath, Diane; Davis, Lisa Fagin; Emery,Doug; Klemm, Elizabeth; Noel, William; Tabritha, Ariel;Toth, Michael B.

Released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license

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The Walters Art Museum600 N. Charles StreetBaltimore, Maryland

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This document is a digital facsimile of selections from a manuscript belonging to the Walters ArtMuseum, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscriptsthat have been digitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment forthe Humanities, and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details aboutthe manuscripts at the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's websitewww.thewalters.org. For further information about this book, and online resources for Waltersmanuscripts, please contact us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message tobe directed to the Department of Manuscripts.

Released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcodePublished 2013

The Walters Art Museum600 N. Charles StreetBaltimore, Maryland

21201http://www.thewalters.org/