Binding from Saints' Lives

late 12th-early 13th century (Romanesque)

22.4 cm 32 cm

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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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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.
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