Creative Commons License
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Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Binding from Freising Gospels
(Manuscripts and Rare Books)
Binding is non-original. German or French nineteenth-century purple velvet over coarsely woven blue canvas over beech boards, with vestiges of old manuscript pastedowns (boards probably sixteenth-century)
Provenance
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Freising, Germany, ca. 865-875; Germany, 19th century; Leon Gruel and Robert Engelmann, Paris, late 19th-early 20th century [mode of acquisition unknown, no.78]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, February 19, 1917 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Germany, Freising (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 6 7/8 x W: 4 13/16 in. (17.5 x 12.2 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1917
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
W.4.binding
