James 1921: French, 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Two missing hinges (repaired).
Object Condition
Vertical cracks through the left wing. Repairs to the borders where the hinges once were.
Comments
The wings of this diptych are now part of the binding of a French 15th-century book of hours for the use of Rome (containing a number of Franciscan saints and saints related to the Rodez diocese).
Provenance
Collection of James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), 26th Earl of Crawford; purchased in 1901 with other manuscripts from the Bibliotheca Lindesiana by Enriqueta Rylands (b. 1843, d. 1908) for the John Rylands Library.
Bibliography
M. R. James, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Latin Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library at Manchester (Manchester, 1921), p. 111, pl. 104.
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