Accession number
MS M.1086
Object title
Address and Presentation (MS M.1086).
Display Date
June 28, 1897.
Created
Cork, Ireland, June 28, 1897.
Binding
Originally mounted in a red leather album; now removed from the album and preserved in a solander box.
Credit line
Gift of Patricia and Thomas M. Carroll in honor of Robert Goodman and Benjamin Einhorn, 1978.
Description
8 leaves (1 column, 12-17 lines) : paper and card, ill. ; 327 x 230 mm
Provenance
Executed for presentation to the Right Reverend Monsignor O'Leary to commemorate his election to Monsignor by Pope Leo XIII; found discarded in an alley in New York City in 1978 by Robert Goodman, who entrusted it to his father-in-law Benjamin Einhorn, Professor of Art and Advertising at New York City Technical College; turned over by Einhorn to Thomas M. Carroll, Dean of the college, for the purpose of finding a permanent home for the object and where it could be exhibited; gift of Patricia and Thomas Carroll in honor of Robert Goodman and Benjamin Einhorn, in 1978.
Notes
Ms. illuminated address and presentation to the Right Reverend Monsignor O'Leary, P.P.V.f., Clonakilty, from his Parishioners, written and illuminated in Cork, Ireland, dated June 28, 1897.
Decoration: 1 illuminated title page, 7 illuminated borders with pictorial vignettes.
Decoration: 1 illuminated title page, 7 illuminated borders with pictorial vignettes.
Script
calligraphic runic script
Language
English
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