Walters Ms. W.78, Psalter Prefatory cycle Calendar Psalter Canticles Litany Collects Psalter Cataloger Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934 Editor Herbert, Lynley Editor Noel, William Copy editor Bockrath, Diane Contributor Bockrath, Diane Contributor Davis, Lisa Fagin Contributor Emery, Doug Contributor Hamburger, Jeffrey Contributor Klemm, Elizabeth 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 psalter was produced in a monastery in the Diocese of Augsburg in the mid thirteenth century, as shown by entries in the calendar and litany. The decoration includes six full-page miniatures, ten historiated initials, and seasonal and zodiac roundels for each month. Related manuscripts include New York, New York Public Library Ms. Spencer 11 and Augsburg, Augsburg University Library Ms. 1.2.qu.19. The text has been supplied with marginal notes throughout in Latin and German, and a fourteenth-century deed discussing property of the Bazth and Ladon families has been included as a flyleaf. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.78 The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. 1r - 154r Psalter 1r - 2v Prefatory cycle 3r - 8v Calendar Januarius habet dies xxxi luna xxx Calendar, about 7/8 filled, graded in red and black; Egyptian dates noted with "DE"; contents specific to southern Germany (Augsburg in particular), including Georgius (April 24, specific to Augsburg), feast of church dedication to St. Mary (September 28), St. Othmar (November 16), and St. Afra (August 7); many later additions and necrologies 9r - 138r Psalter Psalterium per David Beatus vir Liturgical Psalter with three-partite division at psalms 1, 51, and 101, as well as eight-partite division at psalms (1), 26, 38, 52, 68, 80, 97, and 109 138r - 147r Canticles Confitebor tibi Includes biblical canticles, Pater Noster, Apostles' Creed, Te Deum, and Quicumque Vult 150v - 153r Litany Kirie eleison Twenty-three martyrs including Georgius and Vitus; seventeen confessors including Udalricus, Othmar, Francis, and St. Simpertus, bishop of Augsburg; thirty-four virgins including Tecla, Afra, Walpurgis, Crescentia, and Cordula 153r - 154r Collects Preces Ego dixi domine miserere mei...; Concede Quesumus ominpotens Deus...; Omnipotens et misericors Deus respicere...; Ominpotens sempiterne Deus qui caelestia...; Omnipotens mitissime Deus qui sicienti...; Pretende nos fidelibus tuis...; Opitulare Deus in opibus...

Thick parchment

 Foliation: ii+154+i22.7 15.8 17.5 10.8

ii, 1(2), 2(6), 3-12(8), 13(6), 14(8), 15(6), 17-20(8), 21(6), i Fifteenth-century numbers in the middle of the bottom margin of the last leaf of each quire (except quire 1) None Quires begin on fols. 1(1), 3(2), 9(3), 17(4), 25(5), 33(6), 41(7), 49(8), 57(9), 65(10), 73(11), 81(12), 89(13), 95(14), 103(15), 109(16), 117(17), 125(18), 133(19), 141(20), 149(21)

 Written in early Gothic bookhand Full-page miniatures on fols. 1r-2v Seasonal and zodiac roundels for each month Full-page miniatures on fols. 53v and 97v; historiated initials on fols. 9r, 29r, 41v, 54r, 55r, 67r, 82r, 95v, 98r, and 110v Prefatory cycle with four full-page miniatures; two full-page miniatures in the Psalter proper; calendar with seasonal and zodiac roundels for each month; ten historiated initials (10-20 lines); gold initials with red and blue pen flourishes for each psalm; small gold letters beginning each sentence throughout; rubrics in red; text in black ink Annunciation Full-page miniature Adoration of the Magi Full-page miniature Death of the Virgin Full-page miniature Crucifixion with Mary and John Full-page miniature January calendar with lion and Aquarius in roundels Roundels February calendar with griffin(?) and Pisces in roundels Roundels March calendar with swan and Aries in roundels Roundels April calendar with plant and Taurus in roundels Roundels May calendar with man wearing a wreath and Gemini in roundels Roundels June calendar with man with a scythe and Cancer in roundels Roundels July calendar with woman with a sickle and Leo in roundels Roundels August calendar with tonsured man and Virgo in roundels Roundels September calendar with winepress and Libra in roundels Roundels October calendar with bunch of grapes and Scorpio in roundels Roundels November calendar with goose and Sagittarius in roundels Roundels December calendar with hog and Capricorn in roundels Roundels Initial "B" with David harping and enthroned Psalm 1 Historiated initial "B," 18 lines Initial "D" with King Oswald Psalm 26 Historiated initial "D," 12 lines Initial "D" with Mary Magdalene Psalm 38 Historiated initial "D," 10 lines Ascension Full-page miniature Initial "Q" with St. Michael slaying a dragon Psalm 51 Full-page historiated initial "Q" Initial "D" with man holding a sword and cup Psalm 52 Historiated initial "D," 16 lines Initial "S" with dragon Psalm 68 Historiated initial "S," 12 lines Decorated initial "E" Psalm 80 Decorated initial "E," 10 lines Initial "C" with David playing the bells Psalm 97 Historiated initial "C," 10 lines Last Judgment Psalm 101 Full-page miniature Initial "D" with SS. Elizabeth and Catherine Psalm 101 Full-page historiated initial "D" Initial "D" with St. Cesarius of Terracina Psalm 109 Historiated initial "D," 10 lines

Ca. 1900; purple velvet over millboard; sewn on five thin recessed cords; blind-tooled with an ivy leaf rolled border and a three-line roll formed into a saltire

 Mid 13th century CE Augsburg, Germany Monastery in the Diocese of Augsburg, mid-thirteenth century (calendar and litany) Bénigne-Charles Févret de Saint-Mémin (1770-1852) (bookplate, front pastedown) Kupitsch, Vienna, sale 1840 (inscription, fol. 1r) Professor Victor Goldschmidt, Heidelberg (d. 1927) Henry Walters, Baltimore, obtained 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, p. 769, no. 78. Swarzenski, Hanns. Die Lateinischen Illuminierten Handschriften des XIII. Jahrhunderts in den Ländern an Rhein, Main und Donau. Berlin: Deutscher Verein für Kunstwissenschaft, 1936, p. 60, no. 1, fig. 746. Dayton Art Institute. Flight, Fantasy, Faith, Fact: A Loan Exhibition Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of Powered Flight, 1903-1953. Dayton, OH: Dayton Art Institute, 1953, p. 14, no. 84. Jeauneau, Édouard. "Un 'dossier' carolingien sur la création de l'homme, Génèse I,26-III,24." Revue des Études Augustiniennes 28 (1982): 114. 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 Christian Codex Manuscript German Psalter Germany Devotion Book Illumination Walters Art Museum Historiated initial 13th century