Walters Ms. W.9, Lectionary Gospel and Epistle readings Common of the saints Lections for votive masses Added lections for masses Lectionary Cataloger Valle, Chiara Cataloger Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934 Editor Herbert, Lynley Editor Noel, William Copy editor Dibble, Charles Contributor Bockrath, Diane 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 Lectionary was created ca. 1000 in Trier. Written in a clear Caroline minuscule, it contains decorated initials at the openings of important readings. A set of illuminated letters marks the beginning of the Epistle and Gospel lessons for Easter; they display the hierarchy of scripts with capital letters decorated with gold leaf or drawn in red ink, followed by uncial and Caroline minuscule. Initials in orange, sometimes filled with gold, mark the divisions of the text. The book has been stylistically compared with Ottonian manuscripts, especially with a Psalter preserved in Trier (Stadtbibliothek, Ms. 7) illuminated by the so-called Master of the Registrum Gregorii. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.9 The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. 1r - 361v Lectionary 1r - 332r Gospel and Epistle readings Lectio epistolae beati Pauli apostoli ad Romanos Paulus servus Christi Iesu vocatus apostolus Temporal (feasts of Christ) and Sanctoral (feasts of the saints) are combined; full text of the Epistle readings; incipits are provided only for Gospel readings 332r - 338v Common of the saints In vigilia omnium apostolorum. Lectio libri sapientiae Beatus vir qui inventus est sine macula 338v - 360r Lections for votive masses 360r - 361v Added lections for masses Lectio libri Apocalipsis. Iohannis apostoli In diebus illis vidit civitatem sanctam Texts added in the eleventh century: fol. 360r: Apoc. 21:2-5, dedication of a church; fol. 360v: Mal. 3:1-4, purification of the Virgin; fols. 361r-v: 2 Cor. 3:4-9, week 13 after Pentecost

Thin to medium-weight parchment; hair still visible on skin, especially toward the end of the manuscript

 Foliation: iii+361+iii13.8 10.9 10.5 7.8 First front and back flyleaves are modern paper, glued to black silk also used as pastedown; the other front and back flyleaves are modern parchment

Undetermined None None Binding too tight to see stitching

 Capital letters for rubrics; Caroline minuscule for text Large illuminated initials fols. 217v, 244v, 310r, and 315v Rubrics in red ink; red capital initials (2 or 3 lines) at the beginning of each text Red initials (2 lines) mark the lections; empty space has been left for rubrics Large gold, or gold on blue, initials for major feasts (6 lines); red initials (2 to 4 lines) filled with gold for relevant lections; red initials (2 lines) mark the lections throughout; gold rubric at the beginning of the manuscript; rubrics in alternating red and brown lines for Easter; text in brown ink Initial "P" Gospel and Epistle Lections: Epistle to the Romans Decorated initial "P," 9 lines Fratres Gospel and Epistle Lections: Easter Decorated letters "F," 6 lines; "R" and "A," 3 lines Initial "I" Gospel and Epistle Lections: Mark 1:1 Decorated initial "I," 7 lines Initial "D" Gospel and Epistle Lections: Pentecost Initial "D," 4 lines

Early twentieth-century dark blue morocco, made in Paris by Léon Gruel; upper cover decorated with the word "Lectionarium" with edges in gold and letters in crimson; the initial "L" has vine decoration and stems in crimson, green, and blue; gold tooling around the edge of binding

 Ca. 1000 CE Trier, Germany Made in Trier in the early eleventh century Léon Gruel, Paris, early twentieth century Henry Walters, Baltimore, by purchase from Gruel before 1931 Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest Relevant Works Hoffman, Hartmut. "Buchkunst und Koeningtum im ottonischen unde fruesalischen Reich." Schriften der Monumenta Germaniae Historica 30, no. 1 (1986): p. 454. De Ricci, Seymour, and William J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. 2 vols. New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1935, p. 768, no. 69. Clarkson, Christopher. "Rediscovering Parchment: The Nature of the Beast." The Paper Conservator 16 (1992): pp. 5-26. Nordenfalk, Carl. "Der Meister des Registrum Gregorii." Munchener Jahrbuch der Bildenden Kunst 3, no. 1 (1950): p. 64, fig. 7. Austin, Gerard. "Bibliographie: Liturgical Manuscripts in the United States and Canada." Scriptorium 28 (1974): p. 99. Nitschke, Brigitte. Die Handschriftengruppe um den Meister des Registrum Gregorii. Recklinghausen: Verlag Aurel Bongers, 1966. 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 Biography Judaism Talmud Liturgical Devotional Scriptural Theological Legal Historical Scientific Scientific -- Medical Literary -- Prose Literary -- Poetry Philosophical Astrological Sufi English Lectionary Christian German Binding Book Caroline minuscule Codex Manuscript Walters Art Museum Germany 11th century Liturgy Ottonian Calligraphy Ornament