John Taylor Arms

The manuscript leaf on the left was once a part of a missal, or a bound collection of texts, instructions, and music used by priests during religious services. The Beauvais Missal was in used in the Beauvais Cathedral in France for several hundred years before it entered a private collection. It was eventually sold to an American art dealer in the 1920s, making its way across the Atlantic around the same time that American artist John Taylor Arms traveled to France, where he made the etching of the Beauvais Cathedral seen here on the right.