Accession number
PML 198155
Published
Paris : Gruel-Engelmann, 1875.
Credit line
Purchased on the Henry S. Morgan Reference Fund, 2019.
Notes
Printed entirely by chromolithography.
"Noms des collaborateurs. Engelmann et Graf imprimeurs chromolithographes, 12, rue de l'Abbaye à Paris, Ed. Moreau, peintre miniaturiste, A. Pralon, dessinateur chromolithographe, Gruel-Engelmann, editeur, 35, rue Boissy d'Anglas à Paris. 1875"--Colophon.
25 miniatures derived from Walters Art Museum manuscript W.425, produced in Brussels, ca. 1520-30, then in the possession of Léon Gruel.
Page 107 with space for inscription of owner's name in printed prayer.
"Noms des collaborateurs. Engelmann et Graf imprimeurs chromolithographes, 12, rue de l'Abbaye à Paris, Ed. Moreau, peintre miniaturiste, A. Pralon, dessinateur chromolithographe, Gruel-Engelmann, editeur, 35, rue Boissy d'Anglas à Paris. 1875"--Colophon.
25 miniatures derived from Walters Art Museum manuscript W.425, produced in Brussels, ca. 1520-30, then in the possession of Léon Gruel.
Page 107 with space for inscription of owner's name in printed prayer.
Description
160 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : all color illustrations ; 14 cm
Provenance
Marguerite d'Orsetti (1913-2012) and Alvar de Torcy (1913-1986), married 1942, inscription on page 107; Morgan Library & Museum, purchased from The Veatchs, Jan. 2019.
Binding
19th-century French gilt-tooled morocco, with red silk doublures by Léon Gruel.
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