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16th century
Albrecht Dürer
Ryff, Walter Hermann
Overall: 312 x 195 mm (12 5/16 x 7 11/16 in.)
Illustrated books with woodcut illustrations
Classification: Illustrated books
Accession number: 2012.129
Provenance/Ownership History: Probably about the 18th century, the library of the Trinitarian Order, Vienna [see note 1]. By 1998, Ursus Rare Books, New York; 1998, sold by Ursus Rare Books to Marit Rausing and given to her former son-in-law, Joseph Koerner, London and Cambridge, MA; 2012, gift of Joseph and Margaret Koerner to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 25, 2012) NOTE: [1] According to an inscription on the first title page. The Trinitarian monasteries in Austria were suppressed in 1783, and their property was probably sold soon thereafter.
Gift of the Margaret K. Koerner and Joseph Leo Koerner family