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Rochester Bible   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Anonymous (England)Unknown author
Title
Rochester Bible
Description

incipit epistula ad phylemonem. PAULUS VINCTUS JESU CHRISTI & timotheus frater, philemoni dilecto & adjutori nostro, & appie sorori carissime, & archippo commilitoni nostro, & ecclesie, que in domo tua est. Gratia vobis, et pax a deo patre nostro, et domino iesu christo.

Gratias ago deo meo, semper memoriam tui faciens in [orationibus meis]
Date between 1130 and 1140
date QS:P571,+1150-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1130-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1140-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
(Middle Ages
era QS:P2348,Q12554
)
Medium parchment
medium QS:P186,Q226697
Dimensions height: 37 cm (14.5 in); width: 27.4 cm (10.7 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,37U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,27.4U174728
institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number
W.18
Place of creation Rochester Priory in Rochester, England, United Kingdom
Object history
  • Christ Church, Canterbury (?)
  • Rochester Cathedral Priory (?)
  • Leon Gruel, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]
  • Henry Walters, Baltimore [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase
  • 1931: bequeathed to Walters Art Museum by Henry Walters
Exhibition history Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore. 1949. 2,000 Years of Calligraphy. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1965. In Remembrance of Creation: Evolution of Art and Scholarship in the Medieval and Renaissance Bible. Brandeis University Library, Waltham. 1968. Illuminated Manuscripts: Masterpieces in Miniature. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1984-1985. From Romanesque to Gothic: Illumination in Transition. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1990. The Book and the Author: Portraits of the Evangelists in Eastern and Western Manuscripts. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1990-1991. The Illuminated Initial. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1991-1992. The Bible Before Luther. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1992-1993. To Arrest the Ravages of Time: Caring for Art at the Walters. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1996. The Book of Kings: Art, War, and the Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Academy of the Arts, Easton, Easton; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton; The Mitchell Gallery, Annapolis; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown. 2002. The Saint John's Bible: A Modern Vision through Medieval Methods. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2009.
Credit line Acquired by Henry Walters
Source Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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