Book of Hours

ca. 1480

15 cm 20.5 cm

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This Book of Hours from ca. 1480 was possibly made in Tournai. The manuscript passed through the hands of several women, and while the first owner was anonymous, the text and imagery reveals she had Franciscan sympathies. An eighteenth-century inscription at the front of the m...

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Philippa of Guelders [ca. 1480-1562], France, 1520 [1]. Acquired by Nicolas-Joseph Bauchon, France, 1796 [2]. Leo S. Olschki, Florence, ca. 1900 [3]; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, ca. 1912 [4]; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] 18th century inscription claims that Pope Leo X presented this book to Philippa of Guelders upon entrance into the Franciscan convent of Ste. -Clare in Pont-a-Mousson.[2] Decorated medallion on fol. 3r records the event.[3] His inventory number ""79/32942"" on fol. 1r.[4] No. 79 on shipping list in Walters Archives.
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