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Source Description
This fragmentary Book of Hours was created in Ghent ca. 1300 for the use of a woman with Dominican ties. Although quite a bit of text and imagery is missing, including the calendar and Office of the Dead, this tiny manuscript is lavishly decorated on nearly every page with marginal drolleries and grotesques, making it a rich and charming book even in its fragmentary state.
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Document identity
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16130
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Book of Hours
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Book of Hours
description
This fragmentary Book of Hours was created in Ghent ca. 1300 for the use of a woman with Dominican ties. Although quite a bit of text and imagery is missing, including the calendar and Office of the Dead, this tiny manuscript is lavishly decorated on nearly every page with marginal drolleries and grotesques, making it a rich and charming book even in its fragmentary state.
provenance
Gruel and Engelmann Collection, Paris, late 19th-early 20th century; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1903; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
date
early 14th century (Gothic)
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en
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illuminated manuscripts
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cm
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6.8
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4.7
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Folio H: 2 11/16 × W: 1 7/8 in. (6.8 × 4.7 cm)
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ink and pigments on parchment bound between pasteboard covered with green velvet
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