Walters Ms. W.7, Reichenau Gospels Canon tables Gospels Gospel Book Principal cataloger Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934 Cataloger Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934 Editor Herbert, Lynley Editor Noel, William Copy editor Bockrath, Diane Contributor Archibald, Elizabeth Contributor Bockrath, Diane Contributor Davis, Lisa Fagin Contributor Dutschke, Consuelo Contributor Emery, Doug Contributor Hamburger, Jeffrey Contributor Noel, William Contributor Sciacca, Christine Contributor Tabritha, Ariel Contributor Toth, Michael B. Contributor Valle, Chiara Conservator Owen, Linda Conservator Quandt, Abigail The Walters Art Museum

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 This Gospel Book is believed to come from the Abbey of Reichenau, on Lake Constance, on the basis of its script and illumination. The decoration of the manuscript places it in the so-called Luithar school of Reichenau. Its ornamental motifs compare very closely with those in Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm. 4453, and its palette is nearly identical to that in the Reichenau manuscripts of the Bamberg Cathedral Treasury. Gold uncials begin each paragraph as well as the introductory words of each chapter; they are a distinct mark of Reichenau manufacture. The manuscript's text is written in Caroline minuscule. It is paleographically related to Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek Mss. Bibl. 76 and Bibl. 22, and also Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm. 4454. As a whole, it is an excellent example of Ottonian book illumination. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.7 The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. 1r - 202v Gospel Book 1r - 8v Canon tables Canon I in quo IIII Eusebian canon tables I-X 9v - 202v Gospels Contents: fol. 10r-v: Prologue to Matthew (Matheus ex Judea sicut [Stegmüller 590]); fols. 11r-14r: 29 chapter list to Matthew (Nativitas Christi magi cum muneribus); fols. 16r-64r: Matthew (Initium sancti Evangelii secundum Matheum); fol. 64r-v: Prologue to Mark (Marcus Evangelista Dei et Petri [Stegmüller 607]); fols. 64v-66r: 13 chapter list to Mark (De Iohanne Baptista et victu); fols. 68r-99v: Mark; fol. 101r-v: Prologue to Luke (Lucas syrus antiocensis arte medicus [Stegmüller 620]); fols. 102r-106v: 22 chapter list to Luke (Zacharias uiso angelo quia); fols. 108r-159r: Luke; fols. 159v-160r: Prologue to John (Hic est Iohannes Evangelista unus ex discipulus [Stegmüller 624]); fol. 160r-v: 13 chapter list to John (Phariseorum levitae interrogant); fols. 162-202v: John

Thick, white, unpolished parchment

 Foliation: i+20223.1 16.6 15.0 10.2 17.0 11.5 Three sets of numbers present: nineteenth-century ink over pencil pagination in upper right corners, foliation in upper centers, and modern pencil foliation in upper right corners (followed here)

i, 1(8), 2(6), 3-8(8), 9(4), 10-13(8), 14(2), 15(6), 16-21(8), 22(6), 23-27(8), 28(2) Numbered consecutively (i-xxviii) on versos, bottom center; may not be contemporary with original manuscript None Quires begin on fols. 1(1), 9(2), 15(3), 23(4), 31(5), 39(6), 47(7), 55(8), 63(9), 67(10), 75(11), 83(12), 91(13), 99(14), 101(15), 107(16), 115(17), 123(18), 131(19), 139(20), 147(21), 155(22), 161(23), 169(24), 177(25), 185(26), 193(27), 201(28)

 Measurements for fols. 1r-8v refer to the average height and width of the framing arches of the canon tables Light brown ink ruling lines in canon tables only; text folios stylus-ruled on hair side; full-page miniatures on unruled folios Written in Caroline minuscule script; headings and opening lines of text divisions in majuscule scripts; three different hands evident (according to Dorothy Miner): Hand A: fols. 10r-14r, 68v-122v, and 162v-184v; Hand B: fols. 16v-66r and 123r-136r; Hand C: fols. 136v-160r and 185r-220v Eusebian numbers divided into columns of three or four by gold framing arches and columns topped with stylized classical capitals; upper arch single or double, indicating whether all of the items on the page are mutually related or if they are two separate groups; inner arches varying from one to four; Evangelist symbols inhabiting inner arches, placed appropriately above their respective canon numbers against fields of modulating colors of green, pink, blue, and yellow; columns of a variety of colored designs in yellow, mauve, green, blue, and pink separating chapter numbers; chapter numbers written in red Full-page dedication image fol. 9v; full-page Evangelist portraits at the beginning of each Gospel, fols. 15v, 67v, 107v, and 161v Sixteen illuminated canon tables; one full-page dedication miniature; openings of full-page Evangelist portraits facing large decorated initials beginning each Gospel; marginal initials in gold introducing each paragraph; first lines of chapters beginning with gold uncials; ornamental branching initials of gold outlined in minium and filled with green and blue at the heads of prologues and on a grander scale at the beginnings of Gospels; text in brown ink; Ammonian numbers in brown in margins (incomplete) Canon table Part of Eusebian canon I Full-page miniature Canon table Part of Eusebian canon I Full-page miniature Canon table Part of Eusebian canon I Full-page miniature Canon table Part of Eusebian canon II Full-page miniature Canon table Part of Eusebian canon II Full-page miniature Canon table Part of Eusebian canon II Full-page miniature Canon table Part of Eusebian canon II Full-page miniature Canon table Eusebian canon III Full-page miniature Canon table Eusebian canon IV Full-page miniature Canon table Part of Eusebian canon V Full-page miniature Canon table Part of Eusebian canon V Full-page miniature Canon table Eusebian canon VI Full-page miniature Canon table Eusebian canons VII and VIII Full-page miniature Canon table Eusebian canon IX and part of canon X Full-page miniature Canon table Part of Eusebian canon X Full-page miniature Canon table End of Eusebian canon X Full-page miniature An abbot presents the book to St. Peter Prologue to Matthew Full-page miniature; dedication minature Portrait of the Evangelist Matthew Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, according to St. Matthew Full-page miniature Portrait of the Evangelist Mark Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, according to St. Mark Full-page miniature Portrait of the Evangelist Luke Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, according to St. Luke Full-page miniature Portrait of the Evangelist John Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, according to St. John Full-page miniature

Cream parchment over pasteboard, inscribed on spine EVANGELIAIRE Xe SIECLE; book rebound after 1913 by Gruel, as the dimensions are smaller than those in the 1908 Brooke catalog and do not match the 1913 Sotheby's catalog description as "newly bound in niger morocco, covered with rich gilt interlaced circles and dotted ornaments by K[atherine]. A[dams].; some remnants of Katherine Adams' binding remain (endbands and four cords); front cover guard and flyleaf not original but have been with the manuscript for some time as evinced by the leaf numbering and the note in a nineteenth-century German hand

 Middle of the 11th century CE Reichenau Abbey, Lake Constance, Germany Abbey of Reichenau, Lake Constance, Germany, mid eleventh century German library, nineteenth century (front flyleaf contains a German inscription written in a nineteenth-century hand that assigns the manuscript the number 203) Sir Thomas Brooke, Armitage Bridge House near Huddersfield, Yorkshire; acquired from the dealer G. I. Ellis after 1854 Ingraham Brooke, Sotheby's March 7, 1913, lot 8 Leon Gruel, after 1913 (bookplate on front pastedown) Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel before 1931 Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest Relevant Works Ellis, G. I. A Catalogue of the Manuscripts and Printed Books Collected by Thomas Brooke. Vol. 1. London: Ellis and Elvey, 1891, p. 196. 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. 767, no. 2289. Miner, Dorothy E. A Late Reichenau Evangeliary in the Walters Gallery Library. Art Bulletin 18 (1936): 168-185. Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Arts of the Middle Ages. Boston: Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1940, no. 14, pl. 17. 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, cat. no. 12, pl. VII. Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1953, no. 7. Faye, C. U., and W. H. Bond. Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962, p. 195, no. 64. Wixom, W. "Twelve Masterpieces of Medieval and Renaissance Book Illumination: A Catalogue to the Exhibition: March 17-May 17, 1964." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 51 (1964): 45. Walters Art Gallery. 2,000 Years of Calligraphy. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1965, pp. 28, 30-31, no. 13. Randall, Lilian M. C. Illuminated Manuscripts: Masterpieces in Miniature. Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, 1984, pl. 6. Siede, Irmgard. Zur Rezeption ottonischer Buchmalerei in Italien im 11. und 12. Jahrhundert. St. Ottilien, Germany: EOS, 1997, pp. 75, 77-78, 269-270. 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 Illumination Manuscript Miniature Scripture Walters Art Museum Ottonian German Gospels Germany Caroline minuscule 11th century