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Source Description
French green velvet binding, now mostly worn away, from the late nineteenth or early twentieth century, and likely by Léon Gruel. It is tightly sewn, with white and green silk endbands and gilded edges. Traces of a fastener is visible in the middle of fore-edge on both boards.
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Document identity
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95348
label
Binding from Incomplete Book of Hours
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95348
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title
Binding from Incomplete Book of Hours
description
French green velvet binding, now mostly worn away, from the late nineteenth or early twentieth century, and likely by Léon Gruel. It is tightly sewn, with white and green silk endbands and gilded edges. Traces of a fastener is visible in the middle of fore-edge on both boards.
provenance
Gruel and Engelmann Collection, Paris, late 19th-early 20th century; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1903; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
date
late 19th-early 20th century (Gothic)
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en
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bindings
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cm
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6.8
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4.7
dimensionsRaw
Folio H: 2 11/16 × W: 1 7/8 in. (6.8 × 4.7 cm)
Source extras
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pasteboard covered with green velvet with white and green silk endbands
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