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Livre de prières tissé d’après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle
1887
Medium/Technique
Silk-woven book
Dimensions
Overall: 19.2 x 16 x 3 cm (7 9/16 x 6 5/16 x 1 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Francis Warden Fund
Accession Number2015.3054
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Description(Lyon: R. P. J. Hervier, designer; J.A. Henry, fabricator; for A. Roux, 1886-87); this copy perhaps woven on commission in 1889 for Thomas Wardle. [4]; 6; 44; [4]; 43 numbered pages, plus 6 printed preliminary pages, plus 4 pages front and back of mounted silk, unprinted, text block; one half-page, three full-page illustrations, in addition to various styles of decorative borders and initials throughout on every page, woven entirely in silver-gray and black silk.
Provenance1887, Thomas Wardle (b. 1831 – d. 1909), Leek, England; by descent within the family to his great-grandson; 2015, sold by Thomas Wardle’s great-grandson to Brattle Book Shop, Boston; 2015, sold by Brattle Book Shop to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 28, 2015)