Binding from a Collection of Works by Augustine, Didymus the Blind, and Quodvultdeus

late 19th-early 20th century (Medieval)

16 cm 19.8 cm

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This late nineteenth or early twentieth century red velvet binding added by León Gruel, Paris. The cover was embellished by Gruel with an eighteenth-century silver and gilded plaque of Christ, originally from a Serbian flabellum, and which contains a Slavonic inscription. The...

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Created in Champagne, France (?). The monastery of Saint-André de Villeneuve-lés-Avignon, 17th century [1]; Acquired by Bénigne-Charles Févret de St. Mesmin [1739-1792], Dijon [2]. Acquired by Léon Gruel, 19th-20th century, Paris [3]; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] ownership inscription added in 17th century in upper margin of fol. 2r: 'Iste liber est monasterii sancti Andree dyocesis auinionensis / .aab. /; and in another slightly later hand, added after 1635: Monasterii Sancti Andreae congregationis S. Mauri: /; in lower margin, added after 1640: 'Catalogus inscriptus', reference to 36-line description of W. 2 in Saint-André library catalogue begun 29 September 1640 by Dom Odon de la Mothe (d. 1643), binding described as 'postibus copertam et basana alba a parte putrida'[2] facsimile (?) of bookplate of Bénigne-Charles Févret de St. Mesmin (here spelled 'Memin') of Dijon (1739-1792), affixed in all likelihood by Gruel at time of rebinding, 19th/20th century (?)[3] binding added at this time
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