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Source Description
This Book of Hours was made ca. 1310-20, likely in Ghent. It was badly rebound with a sixteenth-century Flemish binding by Léon Gruel in Paris at the end of the nineteenth or early twentieth century, and the initials of Gruel and Engelmann are printed on the bookplate on the front pastedown. The manuscript lacks its calendar, and the text is incomplete and misbound. In the fourteenth century a prayer for Communion, written in French, was added at the end of the book. Initials in gold, blue and pink mark the divisions of the text. The manuscript is richly illuminated with drolleries; painted on the borders of each folio, they would have amused the reader with their playful animals, hybrids, and human figures.
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Document identity
localId
95762
label
Incomplete Book of Hours: Hours of the Virgin, Image of the Holy Face
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obj
dtoType
manuscript
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
95762
sourceUrl
contentType
manuscript
stage
normalized
title
Incomplete Book of Hours: Hours of the Virgin, Image of the Holy Face
description
This Book of Hours was made ca. 1310-20, likely in Ghent. It was badly rebound with a sixteenth-century Flemish binding by Léon Gruel in Paris at the end of the nineteenth or early twentieth century, and the initials of Gruel and Engelmann are printed on the bookplate on the front pastedown. The manuscript lacks its calendar, and the text is incomplete and misbound. In the fourteenth century a prayer for Communion, written in French, was added at the end of the book. Initials in gold, blue and pink mark the divisions of the text. The manuscript is richly illuminated with drolleries; painted on the borders of each folio, they would have amused the reader with their playful animals, hybrids, and human figures.
provenance
Acquired by Léon Gruel, Paris, late 19th-early 20th century; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
date
ca. 1310-1320 (Gothic)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
manuscripts
folios (leaves)
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1
pageCount
1
source
import
hasTranscription
no
Source extras
dimensions
units
cm
width
10.2
height
6.7
med
ink and pigments on parchment
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creator_ids
6505
104
collection_ids
MSS
exhibition_ids
none
dimensionsRaw
H: 4 × W: 2 5/8 in. (10.2 × 6.7 cm)
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
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