Adimari Book of Hours

Exhibitions

• Illuminated Manuscripts: Masterpieces in Miniature. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1984-1985.
• The Nativity in Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1987-1988.
• Time Sanctified: The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1988.
• Manuscript Painting in the Renaissance. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1989-1990.
• Outdoor Space in Medieval Book Illumination. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1990.
• The Gothic Illuminators of Florence. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 1994-1995.
• A Renaissance Gem Revealed: Petrarch's Triumphs Disbound. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2002.
• Dressed in Gold: Books of the Italian Renaissance. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2005-2006.

Provenance The Adimari family, Florence, ca. 1448 [family coat of arms on fol. 15r]; Reverend Walter Sneyd, prior to December 16, 1903 [mode of acquisition unknown; Sale, Sotheby's, London, December 16, 1903, lot 555 [note on rear paste-down]; Charles Fairfax Murray, December 16, 1903, by purchase; C. W. Dyson Perrins, 1906; Sale, Sotheby's, London, December 1, 1959, lot 80; Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, December 1, 1959, by purchase.

Credit Museum purchase, 1959