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Gradual (Carmelite Use)
View: f.40, open book

Gradual (Carmelite Use)

16th century with 18th–century A.D.ditions
Place of ManufactureSpain
Medium/TechniqueTempera, ink (some modern), and gold on parchment (ff. 1-39, paper pasted over older, reused parchment); bindings of black calfskin over boards, with bronze
DimensionsOverall (page dimensions): 63 x 40.5 cm (24 13/16 x 15 15/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Walter Gay
Accession number29.1027
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ClassificationsBooks and manuscripts
Collections
Provenance1929, Walter Gay (b. 1856 - d. 1937), Paris; gift of Walter Gay to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 5, 1929)
Detail: folio 1, recto
mid-13th century
Folios 133v-134r, historiated initial with Christ emerging from the tomb
Liberale da Verona
about 1450–75
Detail: folio 39, recto
Saint Augustine
mid-13th century
Pacino di Bonaguida
between 1303 and 1340
Book of Hours (variant of Use of Paris, and Use of Rome)
probably 1275–1300 (France), with additions in 1350–1400 (Italy)
Detail: folio 1, verso
late 13th century