Roger S. Wieck died Friday following lengthy treatment for cancer. He had just retired from the Morgan Library & Museum (on January 1) where he served for many years as the Melvin R. Seiden Curator and Department Head of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts. Some of you will have met Roger last summer when he generously volunteered to show Morgan manuscripts to conferees at the EBS NYU meeting.

Roger was a prolific author and essayist. His books include Time Sanctified: The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life (1988); Painted Prayers: The Book of Hours in Medieval and Renaissance Art (1997); Miracles in Miniature: The Art of the Master of Claude de France (2014); and The Medieval Calendar: Locating Time in the Middle Ages (2017). He also provided introductory commentaries to manuscript facsimiles, including The Prayer Book of Anne de Bretagne (1999), The Prayer Book of Claude de France (2010), The Primer of Claude de France (2012), The Van Damme Hours (2013), and The Hours of Henry VIII (2016).

Roger was a good friend to the Early Book Society and to so many people. His lectures, which were always pristine in their presentation, were beautifully illustrated and delivered. He was extraordinarily generous with his time, attending to students and their professors alike. He also taught for many years at the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia.
I shall very much miss seeing him when I return to the Morgan Library Reading Room.  
— Martha Driver