Bentivoglio Bible

Exhibitions

• God's Minstrel: St. Francis of Assisi. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1982.
• Illuminated Manuscripts: Masterpieces in Miniature. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1984-1985.
• The Book and the Author: Portraits of the Evangelists in Eastern and Western Manuscripts. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1990-1991.
• The Bible Before Luther. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1992-1993.
• The Sweet Uses of Adversity: Images of the Biblical Job. The Mitchell Gallery, Annapolis. 2002.
• The Art of Law: Legal Documents from the Collection of The Walters. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2006.
• Sanctity Pictured: The Art of the Dominican and Franciscan Orders in Renaissance Italy. Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville. 2014-2015.

Provenance Bentivoglio Family, Bologna [arms added on every page of illumination in 15th century]; Sale, London, 1880; Quaritch [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Yates Thompson, 1895, by purchase [bookplate inscribed "no. 4 and ytr.e.e. Quaritch June 14, 1895"]; Sale, 1919; Quaritch, 1919, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters