Miniature book
On display
Silver and silver-gilt book the covers engraved with folliage. Inside on silver leaves are engraved eighteen scenes mainly from the life of Christ. The book has two clasps and suspension rings top and bottom, as well as five fictive rivets on each side.
Details
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Title
Miniature book
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Associated place
Nuremberg (probable) (probable place of creation) -
Date
1512 -
Material and technique
silver, silver-gilt; engraved
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Object type
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Dimensions
3.8 cm (height)
2.8 cm (length) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Bequeathed by Michael Wellby, 2012.
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Museum location
Second floor | Gallery 53 | European Goldsmiths' Work -
Museum department
Western Art
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Accession no.
WA2013.1.27
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Further reading
Heinrich Kohlhaussen, Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst des Mittelalters und der Dürerzeit 1240 bis 1540 (Berlin, 1968), 434, 421, 424-5, illus. 615-6
Wilson, Timothy, Winterbottom, Matthew, Treasures of the Goldsmith's Art: The Michael Wellby Bequest to the Ashmolean Museum (Ashmolean Museum University of Oxford, 2015)
