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Initial E with David Playing Bells; Hybrid Creature in Margins

German (Artist)
late 13th century
ink and pigments on medium-weight, cream-colored parchment with laid paper flyleaves
(Medieval Europe , Manuscripts and Rare Books)

Provenance
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[Made for Franciscan use in Cologne, late thirteenth century, Ripuarisch dialect points to Cologne region]; Augustinian nuns of St. Cecilia, Cologne, late 15th or 16th century [who added folios 1-23 and 261; Susanna Koull, 17th century [her name on front pastedown, Koull-Binsfelt family obituaries in calendar]; L.S. Olschki; Henry Walters, by purchase [L.S. Olschiki, no. 24].

Exhibitions

2006 Schatzkammer: Henry Walters' German Manuscripts. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.
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Geographies

Germany (Place of Origin) Flanders (Place of Binding)

Measurements

Folio H: 5 1/16 × W: 3 13/16 in. (12.9 × 9.7 cm)

Credit Line

Acquired by Henry Walters

Location in Museum

Not on view

Accession Number

In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.

W.111.158R

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Franciscan Liturgical Psalter

German
late 13th century
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