Work of Art Details
Initial I with Creation Scenes Artist: Miniaturist of Saint Alessio at Bigiano Folio Number: 9r Format: full-page historiated initial I Script: gothic rotunda Period: Medieval Country: Italy Style: Gothic Language: Latin Provenance: Bentivoglio Family, Bologna [arms added on every page of illumination in 15th century]; Sale, London, 1880; Quaritch [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Yates Thompson, 1895, by purchase [bookplate inscribed "no. 4 and ytr.e.e. Quaritch June 14, 1895"]; Sale, 1919; Quaritch, 1919, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest. Credit Line: Acquired by Henry Walters |
