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Source Description
Binding is non-original. Red velvet over sixteenth-century (?) boards, with a Limoges champleve enamel crucifix applied to the upper board; bound by Leon Gruel, Paris, late nineteenth/early twentieth century.
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Document identity
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88844
label
Binding from Saints' Lives
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title
Binding from Saints' Lives
description
Binding is non-original. Red velvet over sixteenth-century (?) boards, with a Limoges champleve enamel crucifix applied to the upper board; bound by Leon Gruel, Paris, late nineteenth/early twentieth century.
provenance
Cistercian abbey of Himmerode (in the diocese of Trier throughout the medieval period until 1802-1803) [thirteenth-century (?) inscription in top margin of fol. 1r reading ""Liber fratrem monachorum sancte marie in hemenrode ordinis cisterciensis"" with shelf mark B.viii in lower margin; fols. 71v and 139r with same inscription in a second, fourteenth-century(?) hand, reading ""Liber monachorum Sancte Marie in himerode ordinis cisterciensis trevirensis dioces""]; Josef von Görres collection, Germany, 1802/3-1902 [nineteenth-century library number N.93 in top margin of fol. 1r]; Görres collection sale, Munich, 1902, Catal.libr.mss. lot 60, p. 12 ; Léon Gruel and Engelmann collection, Paris, 1902-1903 (bookplate no. 125); Henry Walters, Baltimore, June 9, 1903, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
late 12th-early 13th century (Romanesque)
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CC0
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en
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bindings
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cm
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32
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22.4
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H: 12 5/8 x W: 8 13/16 in. (32 x 22.4 cm)
Source extras
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red velvet over sixteenth-century(?) boards, with a Limoges champlevé enamel crucifix applied to the upper board
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