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This Breviary was created ca. 1460-70 in the manner of the followers of Willem Vrelant. Featuring a calendar for monastic use, this book exhibits affiliations with St. Vaast in Arras. Further, a Franciscan association is indicated by additions to the calendar and its decoration. The breviary was owned in Belgium sometime in the sixteenth century (a possible contemporary expunged ink inscription can be found at the foot of fol. 9r). It was rebound sometime in the early eighteenth century and is connected to Ludwig Rosenthal, ca. 1900.

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Breviary
description
This Breviary was created ca. 1460-70 in the manner of the followers of Willem Vrelant. Featuring a calendar for monastic use, this book exhibits affiliations with St. Vaast in Arras. Further, a Franciscan association is indicated by additions to the calendar and its decoration. The breviary was owned in Belgium sometime in the sixteenth century (a possible contemporary expunged ink inscription can be found at the foot of fol. 9r). It was rebound sometime in the early eighteenth century and is connected to Ludwig Rosenthal, ca. 1900.
provenance
Ludwig Rosenthal, Germany, ca. 1900. Leo S. Olschki, Florence; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] Item no. 95 in his catalogue in French, affixed to front flyleaf i, priced ""600.-,"" citing inventory no. ""22544""; this number on front pastedown in pencil between ""LB XIX 322967"" and ""B 33 No. 95""/""RH2R 4624"" (which has since been crossed out), ""Esp 7""
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1460-1470
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ink and pigments on parchment bound between boards covered with leather
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Folio H: 4 13/16 × W: 3 3/8 in. (12.2 × 8.6 cm)
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