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Source Description

Binding is non-original. Early twentieth-century (probably Leon Gruel); tooled leather over squared wooden board; five brass bosses on each cover; slightly raised endbands; pastedowns are fragments from Chicago, University of Chicago Library MS 138, fourteenth century

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Document identity
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91115
label
Binding from Gospel Book
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Source metadata
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91115
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object
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title
Binding from Gospel Book
description
Binding is non-original. Early twentieth-century (probably Leon Gruel); tooled leather over squared wooden board; five brass bosses on each cover; slightly raised endbands; pastedowns are fragments from Chicago, University of Chicago Library MS 138, fourteenth century
provenance
Leon Gruel, Paris, late 19th - early 20th century [date and mode oac acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, MD, before 1931 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
20th century
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CC0
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en
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illuminated manuscripts
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5
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import
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cm
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22
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16
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11
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Overall: 8 11/16 x 6 5/16 x 4 5/16 in. (22 x 16 x 11 cm)
Source extras
style
Byzantine
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Early twentieth-century (probably Leon Gruel); tooled leather over squared wooden board; five brass bosses on each cover; slightly raised endbands; pastedowns are fragments from Chicago, University of Chicago Library MS 138, fourteenth century
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