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Prayer Book with Passages from the Gospels
(Manuscripts and Rare Books)
This early sixteenth-century illuminated prayer book contains Latin prayers and passages from the Gospels. Although small in scale, it is notable for its abundance of illuminations, with nearly sixty extant small miniatures. Full-color portraits embellish the prayers to the Virgin and Suffrages, while the images within the Gospel narrative are rendered primarily in grisaille, a nearly entirely gray monochrome technique. The last folios include a trompe-l'oeil foliate margin and a Crucifixion that seems to be a later addition. Throughout the book gold initials on red or blue grounds mark the beginning of the prayers.
Provenance
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Owned by Edwin H. Lawrence, London; Lawrence Sale, London, 1892, no. 527; purchased by W. C. Hazlitt, London, 1892. Marshall C. Lefferts collection, New York, late nineteenth century; purchased by George H. Richmond, New York, 1901. Acquired by Henry Walters, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
Exhibitions
| 1998 | The Origins of Dutch Painting: Manuscripts from the Fifteenth Century. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
Geographies
Netherlands, Leiden (Place of Origin)
Measurements
Overall H: 5 1/8 x W: 3 15/16 in. (13 x 10 cm); Folio H: 5 1/8 × W: 3 3/4 in. (13 × 9.5 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
W.432
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