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A digital facsimile of selections fromWalters Ms. W.9, Lectionary

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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.9

Descriptive Title Lectionary

Text title Lectionary

Abstract This Lectionary was created ca. 1000 in Trier. Written ina clear Caroline minuscule, it contains decorated initials atthe openings of important readings. A set of illuminatedletters marks the beginning of the Epistle and Gospellessons for Easter; they display the hierarchy of scriptswith capital letters decorated with gold leaf or drawn inred ink, followed by uncial and Caroline minuscule. Initialsin orange, sometimes filled with gold, mark the divisionsof the text. The book has been stylistically compared withOttonian manuscripts, especially with a Psalter preserved inTrier (Stadtbibliothek, Ms. 7) illuminated by the so-calledMaster 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+iiiFirst front and back flyleaves are modern paper, glued toblack silk also used as pastedown; the other front and backflyleaves 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: 1Ruled lines: 16

Contents fols. 1r - 361v:Title: LectionaryHand note: Capital letters for rubrics; Carolineminuscule for textDecoration note: Large gold, or gold on blue, initials formajor feasts (6 lines); red initials (2 to 4 lines) filled withgold for relevant lections; red initials (2 lines) mark thelections throughout; gold rubric at the beginning of themanuscript; rubrics in alternating red and brown linesfor Easter; text in brown ink

fols. 1r - 332r:Title: Gospel and Epistle readingsRubric: Lectio epistolae beati Pauli apostoli adRomanosIncipit: Paulus servus Christi Iesu vocatus apostolusContents: Temporal (feasts of Christ) and Sanctoral(feasts of the saints) are combined; full text of theEpistle readings; incipits are provided only for GospelreadingsDecoration note: Large illuminated initials fols. 217v,244v, 310r, and 315v

fols. 332r - 338v:Title: Common of the saintsRubric: In vigilia omnium apostolorum. Lectio librisapientiaeIncipit: Beatus vir qui inventus est sine maculaDecoration 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 massesDecoration 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 massesRubric: Lectio libri Apocalipsis. Iohannis apostoliIncipit: In diebus illis vidit civitatem sanctamContents: 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 linesText: Gospel and Epistle Lections: Epistle to theRomans

fol. 152v:Title: FratresForm: Decorated letters "F," 6 lines; "R" and "A," 3linesText: Gospel and Epistle Lections: Easter

fol. 153v:Title: Initial "I"Form: Decorated initial "I," 7 linesText: Gospel and Epistle Lections: Mark 1:1

fol. 186v:Title: Initial "D"Form: Initial "D," 4 linesText: Gospel and Epistle Lections: Pentecost

Binding The binding is not original.

Early twentieth-century dark blue morocco, made in Parisby Léon Gruel; upper cover decorated with the word"Lectionarium" with edges in gold and letters in crimson; theinitial "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

Léon Gruel, Paris, early twentieth century

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Henry Walters, Baltimore, by purchase from Gruel before1931

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

Bibliography De Ricci, Seymour, and William J. Wilson. Census ofMedieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United Statesand 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 Meisterdes Registrum Gregorii. Recklinghausen: Verlag AurelBongers, 1966.

Austin, Gerard. "Bibliographie: Liturgical Manuscripts in theUnited States and Canada." Scriptorium 28 (1974): p. 99.

Hoffman, Hartmut. "Buchkunst und Koeningtum imottonischen unde fruesalischen Reich." Schriften derMonumenta Germaniae Historica 30, no. 1 (1986): p. 454.

Clarkson, Christopher. "Rediscovering Parchment: TheNature of the Beast." The Paper Conservator 16 (1992): pp.5-26.

Contributors Catalogers: Valle, Chiara; Walters Art Museum curatorialstaff and researchers since 1934Editors: Herbert, Lynley; Noel, WilliamCopy editor: Dibble, CharlesConservators: Owen, Linda; Quandt, AbigailContributors: Bockrath, Diane; Emery, Doug; Hamburger,Jeffrey; Noel, William; Tabritha, Ariel; Toth, Michael B.

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

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