Walters Ms. W.10, Helmarshausen Psalter Calendar Liturgical psalter Canticles, hymns, and creeds Litany, petitions, and collects Minor office of the dead Psalter scribe Herimann Herimann was the same monk responsible for the Gospels of Henry the Lion Cataloger Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934 Editor Herbert, Lynley Copy editor Dibble, Charles Contributor Bockrath, Diane Contributor Emery, Doug Contributor Hamburger, Jeffrey Contributor Joyal, Stephanie Contributor Noel, William Contributor Tabritha, Ariel Contributor Toth, Michael B. Conservator Evers, Jennifer Conservator Quandt, Abigail The Walters Art Museum

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 This small volume of psalms was created for the private use of a noble lady, probably a relative of Duke Henry the Lion (1129-1195). It was made at Helmarshausen, the same monastery that produced the sumptuous Gospels of Henry the Lion, which sold at auction in 1983 for nearly 12 million dollars, making it the most expensive art object sold to that point. This psalter is much smaller and less elaborate than the Gospels, with only three miniatures, but the quality is very high. The identity of the manuscript’s owner, the lady pictured on fol. 6v, has been the subject of much debate. Scholars have conjectured that she is Gertrud, Henry’s daughter, Clementia, his first wife, or Matilda, his second wife. Because the portrait bears no inscription, and because the facing page, which may have shown the lady’s patron saint, is missing, the question must remain open. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.10 The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. 1r - 125v Psalter 2r - 6r Calendar Aprilis habet dies xxx. Luna xxviiii Calendar for April through December (first three months lacking); calendar is full; major feasts in gold; three saints (Modoaldus, Vitus, Martinus) in gold; Egyptian days and zodiacal notes in red; other text in brown ink 6v - 111v Liturgical psalter Beatus vir Tripartite psalter, with divisions at Psalms 1, 51, and 101; Psalm 109 added 111v - 121v Canticles, hymns, and creeds Canticum Ysaiae Confitebor tibi 121v - 124r Litany, petitions, and collects Kyrieleyson Fols. 121v-122v: Litany, contents suggest use in Helmarshausen or Trier, containing eighteen martyrs; twelve confessors including Modoaldus and Remaclus; thirteen virgins; fols. 122v-123v: petitions; fols. 123v-124r: five collects 124r - 126v Minor office of the dead Placebo domino Ends imperfectly in the middle of an antiphon for lauds "venit ad me non eiciam..."

Well-prepared, medium-weight parchment

 Foliation: i+125+i11.5 6.5 9.2 4.0 First and last pages are parchment and have been foliated but are not original to the manuscript and are therefore added flyleaves; modern pencil foliation, upper right corners, rectos

Undetermined due to the fragile nature of the manuscript

Layout does not apply to calendar (2 columns, 32 ruled lines) Late Carolingian miniscule; for a full description of the hand, see Krüger 1972, pp. 290-301 Full-page miniatures fols. 6v, 41v, and 77v; decorated initials fols. 7r, 42r, 78r, and 88v Three full-page miniatures at beginnings of three parts; three half-page decorated initials set on lavender background, and enclosed in frames, with following text in gold (7-13 lines); one smaller initial on half-page background to introduce Psalm 109; initials in gold, blue, and green begin each Psalm (2 lines); rubrics in red; text in brown ink Noble lady at prayer Psalm 1 Full-page miniature

The lady pictured is most likely a relative of Duke Henry the Lion, perhaps one of his wives, Clementia von Zährigen or Matilda, or his daughter Gertrud.

 Initial "B" (Beatus vir) Psalm 1 Decorated initial "B," 13 lines Christ on the Cross, with Mary and St. John Psalm 51 Full-page miniature Initial "Q" (Quid gloriaris) Psalm 51 Decorated initial "Q," 7 lines Christ in Majesty Psalm 101 Full-page miniature Initial "D" (Domine exaudi) Psalm 101 Decorated initial "D," 7 lines Initial "D" (Dixit dominus) Psalm 109 Decorated initial "D," 7 lines

Red velvet (probably added by Gruel) over sixteenth- or seventeenth-century beech boards; upper and outer margins clipped; edges gilt and inscribed with a pattern of stars within arches

 Second half of the 12th century CE Helmarshausen, Germany Created at the monastery of Helmarshausen in Westphalia, second half of twelfth century, by Herimann for a female relative of Henry the Lion Petrus Grillinger, Canon of Salzburg, early fifteenth century; inscription on fol. 126v reads "Hic liber fuit domini petri Grillinger Magistri Kamere Curie Salzbur[gensis]" Gruel and Engelmann collection, late nineteenth or early twentieth century; bookplate on upper pastedown, inscribed "136" Henry Walters, Baltimore, by purchase, probably from Gruel Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest Relevant Works 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. 11, no. 24. Krüger, Ekkehard. Die Schreib- und Malwerkstatt der Abtei Helmarshausen bis in die Zeit Heingrichs des Löwen. Darmstadt: Hessischen Historischen Kommission und der Historischen Kommission für Hessen und Waldeck, 1972, pp. 279-280, 696-713, figs. 66-69. Jansen, Franz. Die Helmarshausener Buchmalerei zur Zeit Heinrichs des Löwen. Hildesheim and Leipzig: August Lax, 1933, pp. 149-150. Hoffmann, Hartmut. Bücher and Urkunden aus Helmarshausen und Corvey. Hannover: Hahn, 1992, pp. 19-20. Korzus, Bernard. Kunst und Kultur im Weserraum, 800-1600; Ausstellung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen. Münster in Westfalen: Aschendorff, 1966, pp. 495-496, no. 184. Bagnoli, Martina. The Medieval World. Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, 2011, p. 165, fig. 148. Randall, Lilian M.C. Illuminated Manuscripts: Masterpieces in Miniature: Highlights from the Collection of the Walters Art Gallery. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1984. Luckhardt, Jochen, and Franz Niehoff, eds. Heinrich der Löwe und seine Zeit: Herrschaft und Repräsentation der Welfen 1125-1235: Katalog der Ausstellung Braunschweig 1995. 3 vols. Munich: Hirmer, 1995, pp. 165, 167, no. D12. Gosebruch, Martin. "'Labor est Herimanni': zum Evangeliar Heinrichs des Löwen." Abhandlungen der Braunschweigischen Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft 35 (1983). De Ricci, S. and W.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. 73. Klemm, Elisabeth. Das Evangeliar Heinrichs des Löwen. Frankfurt, 1989. 69-72. Swarzenski, Hanns. "Recent Literature, Chiefly Periodical, in Medieval Minor Arts." Art Bulletin 24 (1942): pp. 287-304, at p. 296. Goldschmidt, Adolph. "A German Psalter of the Twelfth Century Written in Helmarshausen." Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 1 (1938): pp. 18-23, figs. 1-7. Art Medicine Museum Poetry Script Muhammad, the Prophet Kashmiri Horses Walters Art Museum Document Astrology Devotion History Legal Literature -- Poetry Literature -- Prose Liturgy Philosophy Science Science -- Medicine Scripture Sufism Theology Mineralogy Logic Geography Geomancy Cosmology Cartography Fortune-telling Koran Qur`an Firman Palimpsest Prayer Bible Gospels Psalter Missal Lectionary Book of Hours Antiphonary Homilary Processional Horologion Breviary Hymnal Chronicle Maghreb Sub-Saharan (West) Africa Turkey Afghanistan Central Asia Egypt England India Iran Iraq Pakistan Germany France Austria Netherlands Ethiopia Armenia Flanders Greece Mamluk Mughal Ottoman Ottonian Armenian Byzantine Abbasid Qajar Rajput Christian Arabic Austrian Dutch Egyptian Fatimid German Indian Islamic Persian Safavid Timurid Turkish Umayyad English French Flemish Ethiopian Carolingian Calligraphy Colophon Headpiece Illumination Illustration Medallion Miniature Ornament Painting Early Abbasid script Ragini Romanesque Gothic Watermark Grotesques Historiated initial Inhabited initial White-vine lettering Textura Batarda Humanistic Uncial Accordion book Album Book Codex Manuscript Heraldry Saint's Life Drawing Grisaille Binding New Abbasid style Musical notation Russia Romania Charter Russian Genealogy Mass book Prayer book Gospel Lectionary Psalter-Hours Treatise Grammar Gloss Pontifical Private devotional text Gradual Protective scroll Scroll 10th century 11th century 12th century 13th century 14th century 15th century 16th century 17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century 8th century 9th century Block book Caroline minuscule Central Arab lands (Near East) Chart English secretary hand Kufic Gothic book hand Original binding Treasure binding Gospel Book Spanish Spain Italian Italy Coptic Scrapbook American United States Maryland Historical Society Friendship book Friendship Biography Judaism Talmud Liturgical Devotional Scriptural Theological Legal Historical Scientific Scientific -- Medical Literary -- Prose Literary -- Poetry Philosophical Astrological Sufi English Psalter German Book Caroline minuscule Codex Historiated initial Illumination Manuscript Miniature Walters Art Museum Germany 12th century Devotion Christian