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Binding from On Christian rulers
This earlier binding was removed, preserved, and is housed separately from the manuscript. Decorated with red and yellow brocade, it was made by Gruel (probably after 1906) to replace a leather binding with a clasp and a pastedown from a thirteenth-century Gospel.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
[Fol. 117 (originally rear pastedown) has 13th century office of Matins for Saint Catherine (with neumes)]; Gustav Ritter von Emmich; Gustav Ritter von Emmich Sale, Vienna, March 15, 1906, no. I, pl. VIII; Gruel and Engelmann Collection [no. 609]; Leon Gruel, Paris; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Germany, Westphalia (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 6 3/4 x W: 4 1/4 in. (17.1 x 10.8 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters
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.12.binding
