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Life of Alphonso VI, King of Aragon and Naples (1416-1458)

Bartolomeo Sanvito (Italian, 1435/8-after 1518) (Scribe)
Giovanni della Casa (Italian) (Author)
ca.1460 (Renaissance)
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(Renaissance Europe , Manuscripts and Rare Books)

Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.

Piero de' Medici of Florence [made as a presentation copy]; Olschki [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase [early cat. no. 389, inv. no 2571]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Exhibitions

2014-2016 From Rye to Raphael: The Walters Story. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.
2005-2006 Dressed in Gold: Books of the Italian Renaissance. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.
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Geographies

Italy, Florence (Place of Origin)

Measurements

Folio H: 6 1/8 x W: 4 1/8 in. (15.6 x 10.5 cm); Closed H: 6 5/16 × W: 4 5/16 × D: 1/2 in. (16.1 × 11 × 1.3 cm); Open H: 3 9/16 × W: 5 7/8 × D: 6 5/16 in. (9 × 15 × 16.1 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.405

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