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Initial "P" (Primum quidem)
Englishca. 1130 (Medieval)
The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, United States
Green vine-scrolls ascend and weave in and out of this letter "P," as if climbing a trellis. Two dragons roar at one another from within the upper part of the letterform.
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Details
- Title: Initial "P" (Primum quidem)
- Creator Nationality: English
- Date Created: ca. 1130 (Medieval)
- Physical Dimensions: w27.4 x h37 cm
- Type: illuminated manuscripts; folios (leaves)
- Rights: Acquired by Henry Walters, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
- External Link: The Walters Art Museum
- Medium: ink and pigments on cream-colored parchment of medium thickness
- Provenance: Priory scriptorium of Rochester Cathedral, England, 12th century [possible reference in catalog in Textus Roffensis, Rochester Cathedral Library Ms. A.3.5, fol. 230r; more certain reference in 1202 library catalog in British Library Ms. Royal 5 B.XII, fol. 2r]; Leon Gruel, Paris, before 1931 [mode of acquisition unknown, no. 1138]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, before 1931, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
- Place of Origin: Rochester Priory in Rochester, England, United Kingdom
- ExhibitionHistory: The Illuminated Initial. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1991-1992; To Arrest the Ravages of Time: Caring for Art at the Walters. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1996
- Artist: English
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