Accession number
MS G.57
Object title
Sacramentary (MS G.57).
Created
France, ca. 860.
Binding
Red velvet with flap on spine revealing fragment of figured Byzantine silk, possibly from original binding.
Credit line
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.
Description
170 leaves (1 column, 26 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 290 x 215 mm
Provenance
Abbey of Saint-Amand-les-Eaux; Abbey of Notre-Dame de Chelles; purchased in Jan. 1960 from H.P. Kraus, New York, for 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. sacramentary, with the Alcuinian preface and supplement; written and illuminated in northern France, probably in the Abbey of Saint-Amand-les-Eaux, ca. 860.
Decoration: 3 full-page illuminated interlace initials, 8 illuminated borders.
It has been proposed by Henry Bober that the manuscript was created in the scriptorium of the Abbey of Saint-Amand-les-Eaux. Following this, Ermentrude, wife of Charles the Bald, gave it to the royal Abbey of Notre-Dame de Chelles, where she was abbess--Cf. The Glazier Collection of illuminated manuscripts, p. 96.
Decoration: 3 full-page illuminated interlace initials, 8 illuminated borders.
It has been proposed by Henry Bober that the manuscript was created in the scriptorium of the Abbey of Saint-Amand-les-Eaux. Following this, Ermentrude, wife of Charles the Bald, gave it to the royal Abbey of Notre-Dame de Chelles, where she was abbess--Cf. The Glazier Collection of illuminated manuscripts, p. 96.
Script
uncial and Caroline minuscule.
Language
Latin
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