Initial T with a group of Benedictine monks singing before an altar from which issues water, 1430s

Provenance

Purchased in Madrid in 1849 by William Stirling-Maxwell [1818 - 1878], London (from an album with his device and bookplate as William Stirling). (Bernard M. Rosenthal, Inc., New York); purchased 1960 by Lessing J. Rosenwald; gift to NGA, 1964.

Exhibition History

1972

Mediaeval Manuscripts from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, University of Notre Dame, 1972, no. 24, repro.

1972

Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, TX, 1972.

1975

Medieval and Renaissance Miniatures from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1975, no. 46b, repro.

2009

Heaven on Earth: Manuscript Illuminations from the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 2009.

Bibliography

1975

National Gallery of Art. Medieval and Renaissance Miniatures from the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1975: no. 46, B.

1993

Anderson, Barbara C. "A Fifteenth-Century Illumination and the Work of Pedro de Toledo." The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 21 (1993): 21-23.

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