Walters Ms. W.11, Missal Missal Principal cataloger Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934 Cataloger Herbert, Lynley Editor Herbert, Lynley Contributor Emery, Doug Contributor Herbert, Lynley Contributor Tabritha, Ariel Contributor Wiegand, Kimber Conservator Polidori, Elisabetta Conservator Quandt, Abigail The Walters Art Museum

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 This Missal was created for Benedictine use in a church dedicated to Ambrose in the province of Ravenna, perhaps S. Ambrosii de Rancla (Ranchio) near Sarsina. The manuscript, which dates to the eleventh century, is striking for its two crucifixion images, one on fol. 7r, and another, drawn only in pen, on fol. 9r. Early musical notation in the form of neumes also appear throughout. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.11 The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. 1r - 263v Missal

Parchment, yellowed from use

 Foliation: i+263+i28.0 17.0 20.5 9.4 Two full-page miniatures of the crucifixion, one in color and one only in ink; incipit page in silver and gold; occasional vegetal initials in ink (e.g. fol. 6v); rubrics in red; text in brown ink Crucifixion with Mary, John, and Evangelist symbols Full-page miniature Crucifixion with Mary, John, and kneeling saint Full-page miniature

Red velvet over mill boards; binding by Greul, Paris, ca. 1900

 11th century CE Ravenna, Italy Created in Ravenna, perhaps S. Ambrosii de Rancla (Ranchio) near Sarsina, suffragan see of Ravenna, eleventh century Léon Gruel collection, Paris, late nineteenth or early twentieth century; Gruel and Engelmann bookplate inscribed 'No. 954' Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Léon Gruel before 1931 Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest Relevant Works De Ricci, Seymour. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935, no. 111. Baltimore Museum of Art. 2,000 Years of Calligraphy: A Three-Part Exhibition. Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield. 1965, 1972, no. 15. Huglo, Michel. "Souvenirs 'enchantes' de la Walters Art Gallery". 54. Journal of the Walters Art Gallery. 1996:1-8,fig. 5 (fol. 37); p. 4. 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 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 Collection of Sermons Notable Notable binding Liturgical Devotional Scriptural Theological Legal Historical Scientific Scientific -- Medical Literary -- Prose Literary -- Poetry Philosophical Astrological Sufi English Christian Codex Manuscript Walters Art Museum Missal Italian Book Illumination Romanesque Italy 11th century Liturgy Musical notation