Accession number
MS G.43
Object title
Psalter (MS G.43).
Created
England, perhaps Canterbury, ca. 1180.
Binding
Tan pigskin by J.P. Gray and Son, Cambridge, 1917.
Credit line
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.
Description
136 leaves (1 column, 22 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 253 x 173 mm
Provenance
Possibly Ely, thirteenth century; "Alice H.," late fifteenth or sixteenth century; Maggs Brothers Ltd., London; purchased by Sir Sydney Cockerell from Maggs, August, 1916; he removed a defective leaf (an initial was cut out) that was later sold by Quaritch (cat. 1036, 1984, no. 63, for $1,200) and is now in the collection of Lucy Freeman Sandler; Cockerell sale (Sotheby's, 3 April 1957, lot 3), for £2,800 to Arthur Rau, Paris; sold to William S. Glazier (1907-1962), New York; deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library by the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection in 1963.
Notes
Ms. psalter, written and illuminated in England, perhaps Canterbury, ca. 1180.
A leaf removed from the codex by Cockerell and given to his secretary is in the collection of Dr. Lucy Freeman Sandler, New York (London, Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., cat. 1036, no. 63)--Cf. Twenty-first report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986.
Decoration: numerous illuminated initials, many with anthropomorphic, zoomorphic or grotesque decoration, 6 marginal grotesques.
A leaf removed from the codex by Cockerell and given to his secretary is in the collection of Dr. Lucy Freeman Sandler, New York (London, Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., cat. 1036, no. 63)--Cf. Twenty-first report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986.
Decoration: numerous illuminated initials, many with anthropomorphic, zoomorphic or grotesque decoration, 6 marginal grotesques.
Script
textura primitiva.
Language
Latin
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