Walters Ms. W.30, Gloss on The lamentations of Jeremiah Added prayers Glossa ordinaria in lamentationes Ieremie Prophete Glossa ordinaria in lamentationes Ieremie Prophete Gilbert, the Universal, d. 1134 Giselbertus Autisiodorensis Gilbert of Auxerre Giselbertus of Auxerre Gilbertus Universalis Cataloger Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934 Editor Herbert, Lynley Editor Noel, William Copy editor Bockrath, Diane Contributor Bockrath, Diane Contributor Clarkson, Christopher Contributor Dutschke, Consuelo Contributor Emery, Doug Contributor Hamburger, Jeffrey Contributor Noel, William Contributor Tabritha, Ariel Contributor Toth, Michael B. Conservator Owen, Linda Conservator Quandt, Abigail The Walters Art Museum

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 This illustrated copy of The lamentations of Jeremiah with the gloss (or interpretation) of Gilbert of Auxerre was written in Austria in the second half of the twelfth century and comes from the monastery of Seitenstetten. Gilbert died in 1134, and the manuscript is an early and important witness to his text. The gloss is written in a small script and is both interlinear and marginal. This layout is typical of glossed books of the Bible from the twelfth century. The illustrations of the sack of Jerusalem and the return to Babylon give valuable information on twelfth-century armor. The manuscript is in its original binding. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.30 The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. 1r - 53r Glossa ordinaria in lamentationes Ieremie Prophete 1r - 1v Added prayers Pater noster Fol. 1r: The Lord's Prayer in Latin and transliterated Greek; fol. 1v: German prayer beginning "O schoppher aller creatur ..." Two prayers added later to a blank folio 2r - 53r Glossa ordinaria in lamentationes Ieremie Prophete Paschasius Sunt cantica canticorum sunt et lamentationes lamentationum Fols. 2r-3v: Forwards (Prothemata); fols. 4r-12v: Chapter 1; fol. 13r-v: Preface to chapter 2; fols. 13v-22v: Chapter 2; fol. 23r: Preface to chapter 3; fols. 23v-37r: Chapter 3; fols. 37v-38r: Preface to chapter 4; fols. 38r-46v: Chapter 4; fols. 47v-48r: Preface to chapter 5; fols. 48r-53r: Chapter 5 Text complete

Medium to very thick parchment

 Foliation: 5325.8 18.2 21.1 16.6 Modern pencil foliation in upper right corners

1(4,-2), 2(8), 3(10,-9), 4(8), 5(4), 6(10), 7(8), 8(6,-4,5,6) None None Quires begin on fols. 1(1), 4(2), 12(3), 21(4), 29(5), 33(6), 43(7), 51(8); paper pastedowns hooked under the first and last quires

 Number of actual written lines varies by folio, but main text laid out in 12 lines, with gloss having 48 lines Written in a late cursive script; both prayers apparently written in the same fifteenth- or sixteenth-century hand Written in late Caroline minuscule script with very few signs of incoming Gothic features; names of Hebrew letters as section headings in a majuscule display script; added prayers in a different hand on fol. 1r-v Two full-page miniatures; one half-page miniature; two historiated initials, two inhabited initials, and one large decorated initial (all 3 to 4 lines high based on large text line spacing); some chapter prefaces framed by inhabited columns and arcades; all decoration drawn in red, black, and green ink; small red initials throughout (1 to 2 lines high); rubrics in red; text in black ink Two full-page miniatures; one half-page miniature; two historiated initials, two inhabited initials, and one large decorated initial (all 3 to 4 lines high based on large text line spacing); some chapter prefaces framed by inhabited columns and arcades; all decoration drawn in red, black, and green ink; small red initials throughout (1 to 2 lines high); rubrics in red; text in black ink Arcade with facing dragons Prefatory material Inhabited arcade Arcade with orant figure Prefatory material Inhabited arcade King Nebuchadnezzar orders soldiers to lay siege to Jerusalem; Jerusalem is taken Jeremiah 39:1-3; Jeremiah 39:8 Full-page miniature in two registers Execution of King Sedekiah of Judah's sons; Blinding of Sedekiah; Return to Babylon with the blinded king; Jeremiah lamenting before a walled city Jeremiah 39:6-9 Full-page miniature in three registers Initial "Q" with Jeremiah lamenting Chapter 1 Historiated initial "Q," 4 large lines Arcade with vultures, masks, and beasts Preface to chapter 2 Inhabited arcade Decorated initial "Q" Chapter 2 Decorated initial "Q," 4 large lines Arcade with lions, masks, and beasts Preface to chapter 3 Inhabited arcade Initial "E" with Jeremiah mourning Chapter 3 Historiated initial "E," 3 large lines Arcade with a hunter and a scribe Preface to chapter 4 Inhabited arcade Initial "Q" with a dragon Chapter 4 Inhabited initial "Q," 4 large lines Jeremiah praying in the temple Preface to chapter 5 Half-page miniature Initial "R" with a dragon Chapter 5 Inhabited initial "R," 3 large lines

Plain alum-tawed leather over oak(?) boards; center fore-edge strap meant to fasten to pin on upper board missing; sewn on three alum-tawed straps; endbands of a single rolled alum-tawed core, worked with similar thread to main sewing; double blind lines on each band; saltire cross formed from two double lines on upper board; five small steel studs once on each board, with a six-petaled impression remaining from each of them

 Second half of the 12th century CE Austria Made in Austria in the second half of the twelfth century Petrus de Anaso, Weyer (ca. 1500 inscription partially erased on front pastedown reading, "Anno etc. 30. Liber dom.[?] Petri de Anaso dominum socio in hospitai Wienn[ensi]") Johannus Hofulner(?) (sixteenth-century inscription on front pastedown reading, "Hic libellus est Joh[annis] hofulner[?] de Wey[er]") Benedictine monastery of Seitenstetten by early twentieth century (seen by Hanns Swarzenski there) Jacques Rosenthal, owned as of 1928, cat. 90, no. 139 Leo S. Olschki, after 1928 (bookplate on front pastedown) Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Olschki before 1931 Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest Relevant Works Bibliotheca Medii Aevi Manuscripta. Pars Altera: Einhundert Handschriften des Mittelalters vom zehnten bis zum fünfzehnten Jahrhunderts. Munich: Jacques Rosenthal, 1928, pp. 40-42, no. 139, pl. 7 (fol. 3r). De Ricci, Seymour. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935, p. 821, no. 388. Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Arts of the Middle Ages. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1940, p. 7, no. 18. 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. 13, no. 28, pl. 19 (fol. 3r). Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1953, no. 14 (fol. 3r). Walters Art Gallery. 4,000 Years of Modern Art. Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, 1953, p. 19, no. 59. Diringer, David. The Illuminated Book: Its History and Production. London: Faber and Faber, 1958, pp. 181-182, pl. 3-32c (fol. 3r). Temple Emanu El. Festival of the Bible in the Arts. Houston: Temple Emanu El, 1964, no. 73. The Israel Museum. Old Masters and the Bible. Jerusalem: Japhet Press, 1965, no. 59 (fol. 3v). Reeves, Marjorie. Then and There: The Medieval Castle. 2nd ed. London: Longmans, 1988, p. 21. Von Hülsen-Esch, Andrea. Romanische Skulptur in Oberitalien: als Reflex der kommunalen Entwicklung im 12. Jahrhundert. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1994, p. 150, fig. 69 (fol. 3r). Pirker-Aurenhammer, Veronika. Die Gumbertusbibel: Codex 1 der Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen: Ein Regensburger Bildprogramm des späten 12. Jahrhunderts. Regensburg: Universitätsverlag, 1998, pp. 169-170, figs. 76-77 (fol. 3r-v). Andrée, Alexander. Gilbertus Universalis Glossa Ordinaria in Lamentationes Ieremie Prophete Prothemata et Liber I: A Critical Edition with an Introduction and a Translation. Stockholm: Almquist and Wiksell International, 2005, p. 89 (as de Ricci 388). 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 Liturgical Devotional Scriptural Theological Legal Historical Scientific Scientific -- Medical Literary -- Prose Literary -- Poetry Philosophical Astrological Sufi English Book Christian Codex Illustration Manuscript Miniature Walters Art Museum Romanesque Austrian Theology Austria Original binding Binding Historiated initial Inhabited initial Caroline minuscule Drawing 12th century Treatise Gloss