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Provenance
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Monsieur du Vassy (?), possibly Tours, late 17th century [1]. Clermont-Gallerande Family, late 17th or 18th century [2]. Acquired by Ambroise Firmin-Didot, Paris, ca. 1875 [3]; Firmin-Didot Sale, Paris, June 9-15 1881, no. 63; purchased by member of Didot family. Purchased by Henry Yates Thompson, England, 1896 [4]. Acquired by Léon Gruel, Paris; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, after 1907; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
[1] Pasted onto front pastedown: deed inscribed with partly extant date identified as 1682, bearing two stamps citing Tours and price of 10 sous; below, partly effaced, two names added later, lower one 'Monsieur du Vassy' (?).
[2] Armorial bookplate of count of Clermont-Gallerande family pasted on top of deed, 17th or 18th century.
[3] Made available to Gaston Paris for printed edition of 1879-80
[4] Thompson Collection Number: Ms. 43
Exhibitions
| 2016-2017 | Jerusalem 1000–1400: Every People Under Heaven. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. |
| 2002 | The Book of Kings: Art, War, and the Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Academy Art Museum, Easton; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton; The Mitchell Gallery, Annapolis; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown. |
| 1998 | Mything Persons: Historic Figures in Legends of East and West. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
| 1995-1996 | Medieval Games of Love and War. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
| 1993 | Travel in Medieval Manuscripts. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
| 1992 | Royalty in Medieval Miniatures. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
| 1991 | Tales in the Telling: Secular Narrative Illustration in the Medieval Book. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
| 1982 | God's Minstrel: St. Francis of Assisi. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
Conservation
| Date | Description | Narrative |
|---|---|---|
| Loan Consideration | examined for loan | |
| 10/29/1985 | Treatment | repaired |
| 7/9/2016 | Treatment | binding stabilized; media consolidation; splits mended; tears repaired |
| 2/2/2017 | Treatment | inpainted; repaired; stabilized; tears repaired |
Measurements
Overall: 14 7/16 x 10 3/16 in. (36.7 x 25.8 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.142