Leaf from Book of Hours: Hours of the Nativity of the Virgin, Woman Dancing in Margin
Music and dancing were important social rituals during the medieval era and provided opportunities for men and women to mingle. On the opposite page (folio 21r) a man plays a stringed instrument, probably a vielle (an early form of the fiddle), while a woman on this page looks...
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Acquired by the Figinne family, Huy, Belgium, likey before 1400 [1]. Acquired by Léon Gruel and Robert Engelmann Collection, Paris, late 19th or early 20th century [2]; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, after 1905; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] fols. 1v and 2r list Figinne family members with death dates spanning 1410-1604[2] GE bookplate inscribed ""No. 390"" formerly on the front flyleaf
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