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Book of Hours

Flemish (Artist)
early 14th century (Gothic)
ink and pigments on parchment bound between pasteboard covered with green velvet
(Medieval Europe , Manuscripts and Rare Books)

This fragmentary Book of Hours was created in Ghent ca. 1300 for the use of a woman with Dominican ties. Although quite a bit of text and imagery is missing, including the calendar and Office of the Dead, this tiny manuscript is lavishly decorated on nearly every page with marginal drolleries and grotesques, making it a rich and charming book even in its fragmentary state.

Provenance
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Gruel and Engelmann Collection, Paris, late 19th-early 20th century; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1903; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.

Exhibitions

1993 Bookish Business: Henry Walters and Leon Gruel. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore.
1988 Time Sanctified: The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore.
1982 God's Minstrel: St. Francis of Assisi. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore.

Conservation

Date Description Narrative
10/1/1958 Treatment other
6/26/1984 Treatment stabilized
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Belgium, Ghent (Place of Origin)

Measurements

Folio H: 2 11/16 × W: 1 7/8 in. (6.8 × 4.7 cm)

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Acquired by Henry Walters, 1903

Location in Museum

Not on view

Accession Number

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W.85

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