Book of Hours

ca. 1300-1310 (Medieval)

6.9 cm 9.1 cm

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This small but richly illuminated Book of Hours was made ca. 1300-10 for the Use of Liège. The manuscript was created for a woman, likely a Beguine living in Huy, and inscriptions indicate it continued to be used in that region by another family into the seventeenth century. T...

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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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