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Source Description
This late manuscript in many ways resembles a printed book, with page numbers, chapter headings, and an extensive table of contents. The book was intended for young women and contains a wide variety of prayers, teachings, and reflections. It is illustrated throughout with inserted engravings by a number of artists, evidently cut from other books; most bear the names of the artists, and many have numberings from their original editions. An ownership inscription at the back of the manuscript bears the date 1772, and one of the engravings (on fol. 84r) contains the date 1754, suggesting that the manuscript was created in the third quarter of the eighteenth century.
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Document identity
localId
27594
label
Prayer Book with Inserted Engravings
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obj
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object
citationUrl
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1
Source metadata
id
27594
sourceUrl
contentType
object
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normalized
title
Prayer Book with Inserted Engravings
description
This late manuscript in many ways resembles a printed book, with page numbers, chapter headings, and an extensive table of contents. The book was intended for young women and contains a wide variety of prayers, teachings, and reflections. It is illustrated throughout with inserted engravings by a number of artists, evidently cut from other books; most bear the names of the artists, and many have numberings from their original editions. An ownership inscription at the back of the manuscript bears the date 1772, and one of the engravings (on fol. 84r) contains the date 1754, suggesting that the manuscript was created in the third quarter of the eighteenth century.
provenance
Joseph Ruetz, Amsterdam, 1772 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Francisus Xoveri Ruetz, 1800; Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
3rd quater 18th century
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
illuminated manuscripts
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1
pageCount
1
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import
dimensions
units
cm
width
15
height
10.9
dimensionsRaw
Folio H: 5 7/8 × W: 4 5/16 in. (15 × 10.9 cm)
Source extras
med
ink and pigments on thin laid paper and engravings inserted on a variety of different papers bound between red gilt morocco covered with green silk pastedowns
creator_ids
33493
33494
33495
33496
33497
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MSS
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none
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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