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AAT Object Form/FunctionBibles

AAT Object Form/FunctionIlluminated Manuscripts

Place CreatedFrance, Europe

Date13th Century

MediumIlluminated manuscript leaf

Credit LineArt History Department Fund

Dimensions11 7/16 x 7 15/16 in. (29.1 x 20.2 cm)

Object number1970.100

Exhibition HistoryCandler Library Exhibition, Emory University, June 1972
Illuminations-Drawings-Prints Thirteenth Century to the Twentieth Century, Selected Works from the Collection of the Department of the History of Art, Emory University, Autumn 1974
A Preview of the Collections, Schatten Gallery, February 15 - April 4, 1982
Old Master Drawings and Prints from the Museum Collection, Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, March 12 - June 7, 1986
Selected Drawings from the Permanent Collection, Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, July 19 - October 29, 1989
God Spoke the Earth: Stories of Genesis in Prints and Drawings, Michael C. Carlos Museum, September 13 - December 7, 2014
Published References"Acquistions," Art Journal 35 (Spring 1976).
Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, A Preview of the Collections (Atlanta: The Museum, 1982), 16.

ProvenanceSaid to be ex coll. Galfridus Arnoldus, purchased from Thomas Picardus, Paris, France, 14th Century. Ex coll. Emory University Art History Department, purchased from Ferdinand Roten Galleries, Baltimore, Maryland, 1970. Transferred to Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, ca. 1981.

MarkingsRecto BL: "100-161-4" Verso BR: "70-100"

Status

Not on view

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