Manuscripts and Rare Books The Walters Art Museum

With more than 900 illuminated manuscripts, 1,250 of the first printed books (ca. 1455 - 1500), and an important collection of post-1500 deluxe editions, this extraordinary collection chronicles the art of the book over more than 1,000 years. The collection is from all over the world, and from ancient to modern times. It features deluxe Gospel books from Armenia, Ethiopia, Byzantium, and Ottonian Germany, French and Flemish books of hours, as well as masterpieces of Safavid, Mughal and Ottoman manuscript illumination. It also includes important first printed editions of ancient texts by great thinkers such as Aristotle and Euclid, diaries written by Napoleon and intricate bindings crafted by Tiffany. The early printed book collection highlights the experimental nature of the first attempts at printing. Some of these books have been illuminated by hand, and many are unique objects.

L'Offrande Lyrique	Title
1925	Period
92.1063	Accession
turkish	Tags

"Imperial" Menologion with Scenes of Martyrdom	Title
ca. 1025-1050 (Byzantine)	Period
W.521	Accession
animated	Tags

A Catalogue of Blue and White Nankin Porcelain Forming the Collection of Sir Henry Thompson	Title
1878	Period
92.1090	Accession

A Church representing the Promised Land	Title
1400-1404 (Medieval)	Period
W.171.117V	Accession
gothic, castle, gruel, engelman, paris, utrecht	Tags

A Festive Gathering	Title
ca. 1163 AH/AD 1750 (Mughal)	Period
W.904	Accession
spanningempires, ottoman	Tags

Abridgment of the Book of Kings (Shahnama)	Title
13th century AH/AD 19th century	Period
W.597	Accession
book, islamic, camel	Tags

Acts and Epistles of the Apostles with Liturgical Readings	Title
early 12th century, with 14th and 15th century additions	Period
W.533	Accession
animated	Tags

Added Prayer to the Virgin from the Fieschi Psalter	Title
15th century	Period
W.45.291R	Accession

Adimari Book of Hours	Title
1448 (Renaissance)	Period
W.767	Accession
medieval, trunk, adoration, mauleon	Tags

Adoration of the Magi	Title
late 17th century (High Renaissance)	Period
W.498	Accession
adoration, magi, religious, nativity, christmas, africanancestryineuropeanart	Tags

Aesopus moralisatus	Title
Printed book: 1495; Parchment binding: ca. 1200	Period
91.12	Accession

Album of Calligraphy	Title
10th century AH/16th century AD-12th century AH/18th century AD (Ottoman)	Period
W.672	Accession
hatt	Tags

Album of Indian Miniatures and Persian Calligraphy	Title
late 12th century AH/AD 18th century-13th century AH/AD 19th century (Rajput)	Period
W.669	Accession
tibetan, animated	Tags

Album of Persian and Indian Calligraphy and Paintings	Title
late 10th century AH/AD 16th century-13th century AH/AD 19th century (Mughal; Safavid; Qajar)	Period
W.668	Accession
iran, persian	Tags

Album of Persian and Indian Calligraphy, Miniatures, and Prints	Title
10th century AH/AD 16th century-13th century AH/AD 19th century (Mughal; Qajar; Zand)	Period
W.670	Accession
iran, persian	Tags

Alphabet Book	Title
16th century (Renaissance)	Period
W.200	Accession
gold, creature, butterfly, insect, iris, flower, paint , parchment , book, renaissance, ink, beautiful, flowers, abc	Tags

Alphonsus de Benavento, Treatise	Title
1456	Period
W.421	Accession
animated	Tags

Amplified Poem in Honor of the Prophet Muhammad	Title
767 AH/AD 1366	Period
W.581	Accession
iran	Tags

Anaphora of Mary (Mass book)	Title
2nd quarter 20th century	Period
W.829	Accession
ethiopian manuscripts	Tags

Album of Persian and Indian Miniatures, Calligraphy, and European Engravings	Title
11th century AH/AD 17th century-13th century AH/AD 19th century (Mughal; Safavid; Qajar; Zand; Deccan)	Period
W.771	Accession
erotic, turban, portrait, bullets, gun, chair, standing, man, album	Tags

Album of Persian Calligraphy	Title
11th century AH/AD 17th century	Period
W.673	Accession
persian	Tags

Album of Persian Miniatures and Calligraphy	Title
10th century AH/AD 16th century-14th century AH/AD 20th century	Period
W.671	Accession
hatt, khatt	Tags

Almugavar Hours	Title
1510-1520	Period
W.420	Accession
animated	Tags

Amida Gospels	Title
early 17th century	Period
W.541	Accession
animated	Tags

Anatomia Deudsch	Title
1551	Period
92.105	Accession
egg, good, skeleton, bones, anatomy, german	Tags

Anthology of Persian Poetry	Title
1105 AH/AD 1693 (Safavid)	Period
W.653	Accession
persia1893	Tags

Anthology of Persian Poetry	Title
early 13th century AH/AD 19th century (Qajar)	Period
W.655	Accession
iran, persian	Tags

Anthology of Persian Poetry	Title
12th century AH/AD 18th century	Period
W.654	Accession
muhaqaq	Tags

Antiphonarium	Title
ca. 1505	Period
W.472	Accession
stbernard, pray, stbenedict, choirbook	Tags

Antiphonary	Title
ca. 1380 (Medieval-early Renaissance)	Period
W.153	Accession
choirbook	Tags

Artes Orandi, Epistolandi, Memoranda	Title
1485	Period
91.1015	Accession

Autograph Letter from Sybby Grant to Her Master, John Hanson Thomas	Title
1861	Period
15.34.1	Accession

Baburnama	Title
10th century AH/AD 16th century (Mughal)	Period
W.596	Accession
intricate, iran, persian, birds	Tags

Barbavara Book of Hours	Title
ca. 1440 (Medieval)	Period
W.323	Accession

Bentivoglio Bible	Title
ca. 1270 (Medieval)	Period
W.151	Accession

Bestiaire Fabuleux	Title
1950	Period
92.813	Accession
gouache, phonewallpapers	Tags

Bible Pictures by William de Brailes	Title
ca. 1250 (Medieval)	Period
W.106	Accession

Binding for Gospel Lectionary	Title
1594-1596 (Ottoman)	Period
W.535.binding	Accession

Binding from Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis	Title
ca. 1175-1200 (Medieval)	Period
W.22.binding	Accession