Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Livre de Prières. Tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle
(Manuscripts and Rare Books)
This work was woven in silk, using the Jacquard loom method of punch cards. Approximately 106,000 cards per leaf were used in this highly complex application. This extremely rare volume, which is the only successful example of an entirely woven book, is often regarded as the first book produced by a computer, since Jacquard's process is viewed as an early precursor to the computer. The printed silk was mounted on paper pages and then bound.
Exhibitions
| 2015-2016 | Henry Walters, Léon Gruel, and the Reinvention of the Medieval Manuscript . |
| 2013-2014 | Bookbindings from the Gilded Age. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. |
Geographies
France, Lyon (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 6 11/16 × W: 5 5/8 × D: 1 1/16 in. (16.99 × 14.29 × 2.7 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Ms. Jane Ridder, 1974
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.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
92.123