Walters Ms. W.934, Clothilde Missal Ordinary and Canon of the Mass Masses for liturgical feasts Marriage Mass Sunday Vespers Prayers honoring the Holy Sacrament and the Virgin Missel romain scribe Clothilde Coulaux Clotilde Coulaux In her book, she spells her name the medieval way with an "h," but in documents of the period, her name is the more modern "Clotilde." artist Clothilde Coulaux Clotilde Coulaux Principal cataloger Herbert, Lynley Cataloger Herbert, Lynley Editor Herbert, Lynley Copy editor Dibble, Charles Contributor Herbert, Lynley Contributor Tabritha, Ariel Contributor Wiegand, Kimber Conservator Polidori, Elisabetta Conservator Quandt, Abigail The Walters Art Museum

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 Clothilde Coulaux, a young French woman living in German-occupied Alsace, created this manuscript in 1906, as described in a colophon accompanying her charming self-portrait on p. 173. All 174 pages are illuminated with a rich variety of imagery, including scenes of everyday life, music, feasting, courtship and child rearing, warfare, and regional architecture, combined with more traditional religious imagery. The latter often draw upon prints by Albrecht Dürer, Hans Holbein, and other early masters, as well as stained glass, sculpture, and liturgical instruments. Much of the other imagery, however, is uniquely her own. Paintings of her cat looking out a window, or of couples drinking together, add touches of whimsy and humor. Other images are more sobering, such as those of Habsburg eagles and Joan of Arc, and taken together with her choice to write in French while under German rule, suggest a struggle to define her national identity. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.934 The primary language in this manuscript is French. The secondary language of this manuscript is Latin. 1 - 174 Missel romain In nomine Patris et Filii Roman Missal including the Ordinary of the Mass, with the Canon, Proper Masses for important feasts, a Marriage Mass, the service for Vespers, and prayers honoring the Holy Sacrament and the Virgin Mary scribe artist Ce missel romain fut achevé en l’honneur de Nostre Seigneur Jésus Christ le vingt-neuvieme jour de juin de l’an de grace mil-neuf-cent-six, fête des saints Apôtres Pierre et Paul, par Clothilde Coulaux demeurant en la cité de Molsheim rue Notre-Dame en face l’église paroissale. This Roman missal was made in honor of our Lord Jesus Christ on the twenty-ninth of June in the year of grace 1906, the feast day of the holy Apostles Peter and Paul, by Clothilde Coulaux, resident of the city of Molsheim, on the street of Notre Dame facing the parish church. 1 - 40 Ordinary and Canon of the Mass In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritui Sancti 41 - 114 Masses for liturgical feasts La nativite de notre seigneur Puer natus est nobis et filius datus Masses for liturgical feasts as follows: pp. 41-51: Christmas; pp. 52-62: Easter; pp. 63-70: Ascension; pp. 71-78: Pentecost; pp. 79-86: Assumption; pp. 87-104: All Saints; pp. 105-114: All Souls 115 - 132 Marriage Mass Messe de mariage Deus Israel conjungat vos et ipse 133 - 164 Sunday Vespers Vepres du Dimanche Pater noster Sunday Vespers, continuing with the Office for the major feasts of the Temporale 165 - 172 Prayers honoring the Holy Sacrament and the Virgin Saluts de tres Saint Sacrement O salutaris hostia, quae caeli pandis ostium

Stiff parchment pages, coated in a heavy layer of lead white

 Pagination: iii+174+iii12.4 8.7 11.1 7.0 Paginated in ink in lower right corner just under frame

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Lightly ruled in ink Stylized script modeled after cursive gothic book hand All 174 pages are illustrated in ink, watercolor, gold, and silver; twenty-eight full-page miniatures and over 20 large miniatures, with marginalia, grotesques, historiated and inhabited initials; devotional subject matter heavily focused on the Virgin and Child; other imagery includes Alsatian architecture, medieval-style scenes of daily life, courtship, child rearing, warfare, memento mori themes, and textile creation; red and blue line fillers; rubrics in red; text in black ink

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 Dated June 29, 1906 Molsheim, France Written and illustrated by Clothilde Coulaux in Molsheim, France (then under German rule); the colophon on p. 173 records that she completed her work on June 29, 1906, in Molsheim on the Rue Notre Dame, across from the parish church Acquired by Dorine van Heerdt tot Eversberg, Fine Medieval Books, Amsterdam, before 2007 Maggs Bros., Ltd., London, 2014 Les Enluminures, New York and Chicago, 2014-2015 Museum purchase with funds provided by the W. Alton Jones Foundation Acquisition Fund, 2016 Relevant Works Coomans, Thomas, and Jan De Maeyer, eds. The Revival of Medieval Illumination: Nineteenth-century Belgium Manuscripts and Illuminations from a European Perspective (Renaissance de l'enluminure médiévale: manuscrits et enluminures belges du XIXe siècle et leur contexte européen). Louvain, 2007. 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 Textbook Scholarly compendium Ancient Greece Ancient Rome Literature Japanese Japan Nordic Scandinavia Catalog Dictionary Spanish Colonial Mexico Mayan Haggadah Liturgical Devotional Scriptural Theological Legal Historical Scientific Scientific -- Medical Literary -- Prose Literary -- Poetry Philosophical Astrological Sufi English Missal Christian French Book Codex Colophon Drawing Illumination Illustration Manuscript Medallion Miniature Original binding Ornament Painting Walters Art Museum France 20th century Devotion German Heraldry Historiated initial Inhabited initial Germany