Leaf from Psalter-Hours: Apes Dancing to Ring-around-a-Rosy
The song "Ring-around-a-Rosy" is still popular today, often danced in a circle just as we see the monkeys doing here. Yet this seemingly lighthearted song has a dark past. The plague swept Europe during the 14th century, and the song's words actually refer to its terrible symp...
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Jacques Mauze (?), 15th century [1]. Ex libris Crouzon, 17th or 18th century [2]. G. E. Street, 19th century [3]. Léon Gruel, Paris, late 19th-early 20th century [4]; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, early 20th century; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] inscriptions on fols. 167r and 213v (the latter now erased)[2] inscription on 1r[3] inscription on 1r[4] No. 46 on 1r
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