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A digital facsimile of selections fromWalters Ms. W.7, Reichenau Gospels

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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.7

Descriptive Title Reichenau Gospels

Text title Gospel Book

Abstract This Gospel Book is believed to come from the Abbey ofReichenau, on Lake Constance, on the basis of its script andillumination. The decoration of the manuscript places it in theso-called Luithar school of Reichenau. Its ornamental motifscompare very closely with those in Munich, BayerischeStaatsbibliothek Clm. 4453, and its palette is nearly identicalto that in the Reichenau manuscripts of the BambergCathedral Treasury. Gold uncials begin each paragraph aswell as the introductory words of each chapter; they are adistinct mark of Reichenau manufacture. The manuscript'stext is written in Caroline minuscule. It is paleographicallyrelated to Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek Mss. Bibl. 76 and Bibl.22, and also Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm. 4454.As a whole, it is an excellent example of Ottonian bookillumination.

Date Middle of the 11th century CE

Origin Reichenau Abbey, Lake Constance, Germany

Form Book

Genre Scriptural

Language The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.

Support material Parchment

Thick, white, unpolished parchment

Extent Foliation: i+202Three sets of numbers present: nineteenth-century ink overpencil pagination in upper right corners, foliation in uppercenters, and modern pencil foliation in upper right corners(followed here)

Collation Formula: i, 1(8), 2(6), 3-8(8), 9(4), 10-13(8), 14(2), 15(6),16-21(8), 22(6), 23-27(8), 28(2)

Catchwords: None

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Signatures: Numbered consecutively (i-xxviii) on versos,bottom center; may not be contemporary with originalmanuscript

Comments: Quires begin on fols. 1(1), 9(2), 15(3), 23(4),31(5), 39(6), 47(7), 55(8), 63(9), 67(10), 75(11), 83(12),91(13), 99(14), 101(15), 107(16), 115(17), 123(18), 131(19),139(20), 147(21), 155(22), 161(23), 169(24), 177(25),185(26), 193(27), 201(28)

Dimensions 16.6 cm wide by 23.1 cm high

Written surface fols. 1r - 202v: 10.2 cm wide by 15.0 cm high

fols. 1r - 8v: 11.5 cm wide by 17.0 cm high

Layout fols. 1r - 202v:Columns: 1Ruled lines: 20Light brown ink ruling lines in canon tables only; textfolios stylus-ruled on hair side; full-page miniatures onunruled folios

fols. 1r - 8v:Measurements for fols. 1r-8v refer to the average heightand width of the framing arches of the canon tables

Contents fols. 1r - 202v:Title: Gospel BookHand note: Written in Caroline minuscule script;headings and opening lines of text divisions inmajuscule scripts; three different hands evident(according to Dorothy Miner): Hand A: fols. 10r-14r,68v-122v, and 162v-184v; Hand B: fols. 16v-66r and123r-136r; Hand C: fols. 136v-160r and 185r-220vDecoration note: Sixteen illuminated canon tables;one full-page dedication miniature; openings of full-page Evangelist portraits facing large decorated initialsbeginning each Gospel; marginal initials in goldintroducing each paragraph; first lines of chaptersbeginning with gold uncials; ornamental branchinginitials of gold outlined in minium and filled with greenand blue at the heads of prologues and on a grander

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scale at the beginnings of Gospels; text in brown ink;Ammonian numbers in brown in margins (incomplete)

fols. 1r - 8v:Title: Canon tablesRubric: Canon I in quo IIIIText note: Eusebian canon tables I-XDecoration note: Eusebian numbers divided intocolumns of three or four by gold framing arches andcolumns topped with stylized classical capitals; upperarch single or double, indicating whether all of the itemson the page are mutually related or if they are twoseparate groups; inner arches varying from one to four;Evangelist symbols inhabiting inner arches, placedappropriately above their respective canon numbersagainst fields of modulating colors of green, pink, blue,and yellow; columns of a variety of colored designs inyellow, mauve, green, blue, and pink separating chapternumbers; chapter numbers written in red

fols. 9v - 202v:Title: GospelsContents: Contents: fol. 10r-v: Prologue to Matthew(Matheus ex Judea sicut [Stegmüller 590]); fols.11r-14r: 29 chapter list to Matthew (Nativitas Christimagi cum muneribus); fols. 16r-64r: Matthew (Initiumsancti Evangelii secundum Matheum); fol. 64r-v:Prologue to Mark (Marcus Evangelista Dei et Petri[Stegmüller 607]); fols. 64v-66r: 13 chapter list to Mark(De Iohanne Baptista et victu); fols. 68r-99v: Mark;fol. 101r-v: Prologue to Luke (Lucas syrus antiocensisarte medicus [Stegmüller 620]); fols. 102r-106v: 22chapter list to Luke (Zacharias uiso angelo quia);fols. 108r-159r: Luke; fols. 159v-160r: Prologue toJohn (Hic est Iohannes Evangelista unus ex discipulus[Stegmüller 624]); fol. 160r-v: 13 chapter list to John(Phariseorum levitae interrogant); fols. 162-202v: JohnDecoration note: Full-page dedication image fol. 9v;full-page Evangelist portraits at the beginning of eachGospel, fols. 15v, 67v, 107v, and 161v

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Decoration fol. 1r:Title: Canon tableForm: Full-page miniatureText: Part of Eusebian canon I

fol. 1v:Title: Canon tableForm: Full-page miniatureText: Part of Eusebian canon I

fol. 2r:Title: Canon tableForm: Full-page miniatureText: Part of Eusebian canon I

fol. 2v:Title: Canon tableForm: Full-page miniatureText: Part of Eusebian canon II

fol. 3r:Title: Canon tableForm: Full-page miniatureText: Part of Eusebian canon II

fol. 3v:Title: Canon tableForm: Full-page miniatureText: Part of Eusebian canon II

fol. 4r:Title: Canon tableForm: Full-page miniatureText: Part of Eusebian canon II

fol. 4v:Title: Canon tableForm: Full-page miniatureText: Eusebian canon III

fol. 5r:Title: Canon tableForm: Full-page miniatureText: Eusebian canon IV

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fol. 5v:Title: Canon tableForm: Full-page miniatureText: Part of Eusebian canon V

fol. 6r:Title: Canon tableForm: Full-page miniatureText: Part of Eusebian canon V

fol. 6v:Title: Canon tableForm: Full-page miniatureText: Eusebian canon VI

fol. 7r:Title: Canon tableForm: Full-page miniatureText: Eusebian canons VII and VIII

fol. 7v:Title: Canon tableForm: Full-page miniatureText: Eusebian canon IX and part of canon X

fol. 8r:Title: Canon tableForm: Full-page miniatureText: Part of Eusebian canon X

fol. 8v:Title: Canon tableForm: Full-page miniatureText: End of Eusebian canon X

fol. 9v:Title: An abbot presents the book to St. PeterForm: Full-page miniature; dedication minatureText: Prologue to Matthew

fol. 15v:Title: Portrait of the Evangelist MatthewForm: Full-page miniature

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Text: Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, according to St.Matthew

fol. 67v:Title: Portrait of the Evangelist MarkForm: Full-page miniatureText: Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, according to St. Mark

fol. 107v:Title: Portrait of the Evangelist LukeForm: Full-page miniatureText: Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, according to St. Luke

fol. 161v:Title: Portrait of the Evangelist JohnForm: Full-page miniatureText: Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, according to St. John

Binding The binding is not original.

Cream parchment over pasteboard, inscribed on spineEVANGELIAIRE Xe SIECLE; book rebound after 1913 byGruel, as the dimensions are smaller than those in the 1908Brooke catalog and do not match the 1913 Sotheby's catalogdescription as "newly bound in niger morocco, coveredwith rich gilt interlaced circles and dotted ornaments byK[atherine]. A[dams].; some remnants of Katherine Adams'binding remain (endbands and four cords); front cover guardand flyleaf not original but have been with the manuscript forsome time as evinced by the leaf numbering and the note ina nineteenth-century German hand

Provenance Abbey of Reichenau, Lake Constance, Germany, mideleventh century

German library, nineteenth century (front flyleaf contains aGerman inscription written in a nineteenth-century hand thatassigns the manuscript the number 203)

Sir Thomas Brooke, Armitage Bridge House nearHuddersfield, Yorkshire; acquired from the dealer G. I. Ellisafter 1854

Ingraham Brooke, Sotheby's March 7, 1913, lot 8

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Leon Gruel, after 1913 (bookplate on front pastedown)

Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel before1931

Acquisition Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest

Bibliography Ellis, G. I. A Catalogue of the Manuscripts and Printed BooksCollected by Thomas Brooke. Vol. 1. London: Ellis andElvey, 1891, p. 196.

De Ricci, Seymour. Census of Medieval and RenaissanceManuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. NewYork: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935, p. 767, no. 2289.

Miner, Dorothy E. A Late Reichenau Evangeliary in theWalters Gallery Library. Art Bulletin 18 (1936): 168-185.

Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Arts of the Middle Ages.Boston: Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1940, no. 14, pl. 17.

Walters Art Gallery. Illuminated Books of the Middle Agesand Renaissance: An Exhibition Held at the BaltimoreMuseum of Art. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters ArtGallery, 1949, cat. no. 12, pl. VII.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Medieval andRenaissance Illuminated Manuscripts. Los Angeles: LosAngeles County Museum of Art, 1953, no. 7.

Faye, C. U., and W. H. Bond. Supplement to the Census ofMedieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United Statesand Canada. New York: Bibliographical Society of America,1962, p. 195, no. 64.

Wixom, W. "Twelve Masterpieces of Medieval andRenaissance Book Illumination: A Catalogue to theExhibition: March 17-May 17, 1964." Bulletin of theCleveland Museum of Art 51 (1964): 45.

Walters Art Gallery. 2,000 Years of Calligraphy. Totowa, NJ:Rowman and Littlefield, 1965, pp. 28, 30-31, no. 13.

Randall, Lilian M. C. Illuminated Manuscripts: Masterpiecesin Miniature. Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, 1984, pl. 6.

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Siede, Irmgard. Zur Rezeption ottonischer Buchmalerei inItalien im 11. und 12. Jahrhundert. St. Ottilien, Germany:EOS, 1997, pp. 75, 77-78, 269-270.

Contributors Principal cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff andresearchers since 1934Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff andresearchers since 1934Editors: Herbert, Lynley; Noel, WilliamCopy editor: Bockrath, DianeConservators: Owen, Linda; Quandt, AbigailContributors: Archibald, Elizabeth; Bockrath, Diane; Davis,Lisa Fagin; Dutschke, Consuelo; Emery, Doug; Hamburger,Jeffrey; Noel, William; Sciacca, Christine; Tabritha, Ariel;Toth, Michael B.; Valle, Chiara

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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