Carrow Priory, Norwich, 15th century [recorded in a 14th or 15th century inscription on fol. 1r]
John Baptist, 3rd Lord Caryll (1716-1780) [his bookplate recorded in 1902, but is no longer extant] [date and mode of acquisition unknown]
George Galway Mills [date and mode of acquisition unknown]
Mills Sale, London, February 24, 1800
Reverend David T. Powell [date and mode of acquisition unknown]
Powell Sale, London, July 31, 1848
4th Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878) [Appendix no. XXXIII, his bookplate] [date and mode of acquisition unknown]
Henry Yates Thompson, 1899 [his bookplate] [mode of acquisition unknown]
Quaritch, 1920, by purchase
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase
Exhibition history
Illuminated Manuscripts: Masterpieces in Miniature. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1984-1985. The Naked and the Nude. 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. The Psalms of David in the Middle Ages. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1996. 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. The Christmas Story: Picturing the Birth of Christ in Medieval Manuscripts. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2009-2010.
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