Book of Hours

ca. 1460-1470

7.3 cm 9.8 cm

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This pocket-sized Book of Hours, ca. 1460-70, was completed in the circle of Willem Vrelant for the use of Sarum. Featuring twenty-seven extant miniatures and twenty-two historiated initials, it is an important example of the prayer books made in the third quarter of the thirt...

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Léon Gruel, Paris, late 19th-early 20th century [1] [2]; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, early 20th century; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] Unknown modern ownership notation on front pastedown: no. ""4"" in blue crayon followed by ""I.III.16"" written in pencil[2] Gruel and Engelmann bookplate on front pastedown inscribed ""N. 935""
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