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Binding from Saints' Lives

William, of Saint-Thierry, Abbot of Saint-Thierry (ca. 1085 - 1148?) (Author)
Jacques, de Vitry (ca. 1170-1240) (Author)
Hugo, of Saint-Victor (1096 (?)-1141) (Author)
Saint Hildegard (1098-1179) (Author)
German (Artist)
late 12th-early 13th century (Romanesque)
red velvet over sixteenth-century(?) boards, with a Limoges champlevé enamel crucifix applied to the upper board
(Manuscripts and Rare Books, Medieval Europe )

Binding is non-original. Red velvet over sixteenth-century (?) boards, with a Limoges champleve enamel crucifix applied to the upper board; bound by Leon Gruel, Paris, late nineteenth/early twentieth century.

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Cistercian abbey of Himmerode (in the diocese of Trier throughout the medieval period until 1802-1803) [thirteenth-century (?) inscription in top margin of fol. 1r reading "Liber fratrem monachorum sancte marie in hemenrode ordinis cisterciensis" with shelf mark B.viii in lower margin; fols. 71v and 139r with same inscription in a second, fourteenth-century(?) hand, reading "Liber monachorum Sancte Marie in himerode ordinis cisterciensis trevirensis dioces"]; Josef von Görres collection, Germany, 1802/3-1902 [nineteenth-century library number N.93 in top margin of fol. 1r]; Görres collection sale, Munich, 1902, Catal.libr.mss. lot 60, p. 12 ; Léon Gruel and Engelmann collection, Paris, 1902-1903 (bookplate no. 125); Henry Walters, Baltimore, June 9, 1903, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

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Germany, Trier, Cistercian abbey of Himmerode (Place of Origin)

Measurements

H: 12 5/8 x W: 8 13/16 in. (32 x 22.4 cm)

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Acquired by Henry Walters

Location in Museum

Not on view

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W.71.binding

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Saints' Lives

William, of Saint-Thierry, Abbot of Saint-Thierry (ca. 1085 - 1148?)
late 12th-early 13th century (Romanesque)
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