Object type
Manuscripts
Date
Production: 1504
Artist
French School
Subject(s)
Bearers of the Cross
Ceremony
Knights Hospitaller
Knights of Malta
Religion and Devotion
Associated person
Charles Aleman De Rochechenard (active c. early 16th century)
Dimensions
Height x width x depth: 353 x 260 x 75mm
Materials and technique
Vellum bound manuscript with ink and gold leaf
Production place
France
References
Alliott, Eustace A. The Rhodes Missal: A Illustrated Commentary. London: Order of St John, 1980.

Hatzaki, Myrto. The Nativity Stories. Nicosia: A.G. Leventis Gallery, 2014.
Pages 26, 30, 96
Catalogue number 10
Provenance
In 1504, the Missal was gifted to Amaury d’Amboise, the Grand Prior of France who had just been elected Grand Master of the Order, by Charles Aleman de Rochechenard, the Prior of St Gilles in France.

Purchased in 1929 by the Order of St John, funded by subscriptions, from antiquarian bookseller Leo S. Olschki.
Exhibition history
The Nativity Stories, A.G. Leventis Gallery, 5 December 2014-2 March 2015

Antiques and Fine Art Fair, British Antiques Dealers Association, 25 March 2009-31 March 2009

Holy City, Holy War: Devotion to the Sacred in Crusader Jerusalem, Museum of the Order of St John, 2 September 2017-22 December 2017
Catalogue number
K100
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