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Source Description
Binding is non-original. German or French nineteenth-century purple velvet over coarsely woven blue canvas over beech boards, with vestiges of old manuscript pastedowns (boards probably sixteenth-century)
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
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81606
label
Binding from Freising Gospels
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Source metadata
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81606
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object
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normalized
title
Binding from Freising Gospels
description
Binding is non-original. German or French nineteenth-century purple velvet over coarsely woven blue canvas over beech boards, with vestiges of old manuscript pastedowns (boards probably sixteenth-century)
provenance
Freising, Germany, ca. 865-875; Germany, 19th century; Leon Gruel and Robert Engelmann, Paris, late 19th-early 20th century [mode of acquisition unknown, no.78]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, February 19, 1917 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
19th century
citationUrl
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CC0
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en
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Manuscripts & Rare Books
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4
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4
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import
dimensions
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cm
width
17.5
height
12.2
dimensionsRaw
H: 6 7/8 x W: 4 13/16 in. (17.5 x 12.2 cm)
Source extras
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Carolingian
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German or French nineteenth-century purple velvet over coarsely woven blue canvas over beech boards, with vestiges of old manuscript pastedowns (boards probably sixteenth-century)
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none
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photo
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photo
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