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| Keywords: William de Brailes - Bible Pictures by William de Brailes - Walters W106 - Top Exterior Closed.jpg Walters manuscript W 106 is an exquisite volume comprising twenty-four leaves of Bible Pictures by W de Brailes an English artist active in Oxford in the middle of the 13th century Seven leaves from the same set of images are now in the Musee Marmottan in Paris These 31 leaves are all that remain of an image cycle that once contained at least 98 miniatures and which was the longest cycle of Bible miniatures surviving from the 13th century in England In all probability these Bible Pictures were actually prefatory matter to a Psalter now in Stockholm National Museum Ms B 2010 De Brailes also composed and wrote the captions that accompany many of the images W de Brailes is one of only two English artists of the 13th century whose name we can associate with surviving works Eleven manuscripts have been indentified that contain miniatures in his hand De Brailes has a quirky and chatty style and he was extremely gifted at turning Bible Stories into paint ca 1250 Medieval ink and pigment on parchment bound between shaped millboard covered in worn red velvet with ivory Folio cm 13 2 9 5 ; Box cm 15 56 12 38 4 45 ; Ivory plaque cm 8 5 accession number W 106 26909 Léon Gruel Paris date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters Baltimore June 6 1903 by purchase see The Diaries of George Lucas Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1903 Pages from Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts from the 10th to the Early 15th Centuries University Art Gallery University of California Berkeley Berkeley 1963 Medieval Art 1060-1550 University Art Gallery South Bend 1974 Splendor in Books The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore; Grolier Club New York 1977-1978 Illuminated Manuscripts Masterpieces in Miniature The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1984-1985 Jewish Heroes in Christian Books The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1986 The Nativity in Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1987-1988 From Romanesque to Gothic Illumination in Transition The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1990 Royalty in Medieval Miniatures The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1992 The Bible Before Luther The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1992-1993 Bookish Business Henry Walters and Leon Gruel The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1993 Manuscript Sleuthing Discoveries of a Curator The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1995 To Hell and Back Medieval Images of the Afterworld The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1995 Mything Persons Historic Figures in Legends of East and West The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1998 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 place of origin Oxford England United Kingdom Walters Art Museum license 3D Walters MS W106 - Bible Pictures by William de Brailes Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist review Reliefs of the nativity of Jesus Christ | ||||
