Walters Ms. W.71, Saints' lives Life of St. Bernard Life of Marie d'Oignies Added prayers and prologue On the lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah Hildegard of Bingen letter 43 Lives of SS. Bernard and Marie d'Oignies and On the lamentations of Jeremiah William, of St. Thierry, Abbot of Saint-Thierry, ca. 1085-1148 Jacques, de Vitry, ca. 1170-1240 Hugh, of St. Victor, 1096-1141 Hildegard, of Bingen, Saint, 1098-1179 Hildegard von Bingen Cataloger Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934 Editor Herbert, Lynley Editor Noel, William Copy editor Bockrath, Diane Contributor Bockrath, Diane 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 manuscript, which was made at or for the Cistercian monastery at Himmerode, Germany, is a compilation of several texts written in the late twelfth or early thirteenth century. The first and third texts, William of St. Thierry's Life of St. Bernard and Hugh of St. Victor's On the lamentations of Jeremiah, are contemporary but were written separately and then bound together. A third text, Jacques de Vitry's Life of St. Marie d'Oignies, was inserted between them at a later time. Several additional texts were added to blank folios in the thirteenth century, most notably a letter by Hildegard of Bingen on the final folio. Many different hands can be identified throughout the manuscript, sometimes changing every few lines; this variety of scribes is especially evident in the third text. Although the book contains no pictorial illuminations, large, ornate decorated initials, drawn in bright green and red, announce the beginning of each chapter. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.71 The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. 1r - 139v Lives of SS. Bernard and Marie d'Oignies and On the lamentations of Jeremiah 1r - 72v Life of St. Bernard Incipit prologus domini Guillelmi abbatis Sancti Theoderici. In vita Sancti Bernardi clarevallis abbatis. Scripturus vitam servi tui ad honorem Incomplete; contains the first recension of the life of St. Bernard, dating to ca. 1155; lacks prologues to books 3 through 5 73r - 97v Life of Marie d'Oignies Incipit prologus domini Jacobi accharonensis episcopi in vitam ancille Christi Marie de Ognies ad dominum fulconem tolosanum episcopum Precepit dominus disciptis suis Complete; does not contain the supplement of Thomas of Cantimpré, written before 1240 97v - 97v Added prayers and prologue Beata progenies unde gloriosa virgo Four texts added in thirteenth-century cursive hands: prayer to the Virgin, prayer to St. Anne, prayer to the elevation of the host, and a prologue to the text by Hugh of St. Victor found on fol. 98r 98r - 139r On the lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah Incipit tractatus Magistri Hugonis super lamentationes Iheremiae Quomodo sedet sola civitas plena Complete; omitted passage added on a one-third-page scrap (fol. 100bis) with the other side being a repeat of fol. 97v in a cursive hand 139v - 139v Hildegard of Bingen letter 43 In vera visione vigilantibus oculis Text added to a blank folio in the thirteenth century, being letter #43 of Hildegard of Bingen; contains only her response to a letter from "sacerdotis cuiusdam"

Medium-weight parchment, unevenly finished with hair sides often darker and rougher; heavy wear visible to the lower corners; flyleaves of modern paper

 Foliation: ii+139+ii32.0 22.4 24.3 17.7 Modern pencil foliation in the upper right corners of rectos

ii, 1-10(8), 11(10,-8), 12(8), 13(8,+ tipped-in slip, fol. 100*, after third leaf), 14-17(8), 18(2), ii Quires 1 and 2 marked "I" and "II" in a nineteenth-century black hand, middle bottom margin, last folio; quires 5, 6, 7, and 9 marked "v" through "ix," middle bottom margin, last folio, in a thirteenth-century(?) hand; quires 13, 14, and 17, marked "x," "xi," and "xiiii" respectively, middle bottom margin, last folio, in the same thirteenth-century hand, which also marked quire 18 "xv," middle bottom margin, first folio None Quires begin on fols. 1(1), 9(2), 17(3), 25(4), 33(5), 41(6), 49(7), 57(8), 65(9), 73(10), 81(11), 90(12), 98(13), 106(14), 114(15), 122(16), 130(17), and 138(18); present quires 10-12, containing the Life of Marie D'Oignies, possibly not present at the time the thirteenth-century(?) signatures were added

 Written in pre-Gothic bookhand Ornate decorated initials on fols. 1r-v, 22 r-v, 23r, 41r, 51r, and 66r Decorated initial on fol. 73r None Decorated initial on fol. 98r Red initial beginning text Nine large red and/or green decorated initials (5-15 lines); small red or green initials throughout (2-5 lines); opening lines of first two major incipits in enlarged alternating red and green letters; rubrics in red or else in black struck through with red; text in black and brown ink Decorated initial "S" (Scripturus) Life of St. Bernard Decorated initial "S," 10 lines Decorated initial "B" (Bernardus) Life of St. Bernard Decorated initial "B," 15 lines Decorated initial "V" (Virorum) Life of St. Bernard Decorated initial "V," 7 lines Decorated initial "E" (Ea tempestate) Life of St. Bernard Decorated initial "E," 8 lines

Red velvet over sixteenth-century(?) boards, with a Limoges champlevé enamel crucifix applied to the upper board; bound by Léon Gruel, Paris, late nineteenth/early twentieth century

 Late 12th century / early 13th century CE Himmerode, Germany Owned by, and possibly made at, the Cistercian abbey of Himmerode (in the diocese of Trier throughout the medieval period until 1802-1803) (thirteenth-century(?) inscription in top margin of fol. 1r reading "Liber fratrem monachorum sancte marie in hemenrode ordinis cisterciensis" with shelf mark B.viii in lower margin; fols. 71v and 139r with same inscription in a second, fourteenth-century(?) hand, reading "Liber monachorum Sancte Marie in himerode ordinis cisterciensis trevirensis dioces") Josef von Görres collection, Germany, 1802/3-1902 (nineteenth-century library number N.93 in top margin of fol. 1r) Görres collection sale, Munich, 1902, Catal.libr.mss. lot 60, p. 12 Gruel and Engelmann collection, Paris, 1902-1903 (bookplate no. 125) Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel, June 9, 1903 Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest Relevant Works Hildegardis Abbatissa, Epistulae. Paris: J.-P. Migne, 1855. 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. 820, no. 385. Schneider, Ambrosius. "Skriptorium und Bibliothek der Cistercienserabtei Himmerod im Rheinland: zur Geschichte klösterlichen Bibliothekswesens im Mittelalter." Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 35 (1952-3): 155-205. Morson, John. "The Life of St. Bernard: Manuscripts and Recensions in Collectanea Ordinis Cisterciensium." Reformatorum 19 (1957): 54, 58, no. 2. Schneider, Ambrosius. Skriptorium und Bibliothek der Abtei Himmerod: ein Beitrag zur Geistesgeschichte des Eifelklosters. Himmerod, Germany: Himmerod-Drucke, 1974, p. 30, no. 37. 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 Liturgical Devotional Scriptural Theological Legal Historical Scientific Scientific -- Medical Literary -- Prose Literary -- Poetry Philosophical Astrological Sufi English Book Christian Codex Illumination Manuscript Walters Art Museum German Theology Saint's Life Germany Binding 12th century 13th century