Accession number
MS M.934
Object title
Psalter (MS M.934).
Created
Paris, France, between 1495 and 1498.
Binding
Full royal blue velvet, gold clasps, gauffered gilt edges, by Simier; in full midnight blue morocco box-case, leather lined.
Credit line
Gift; Herbert H. Lehman; 1968.
Description
229 leaves (1 column, 28 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 263 x 192 mm
Provenance
Probably owned by King Charles VIII (1483-1498); Théophile Belin of Paris (offered this ms. to J.P. Morgan (1837-1913) in 1910 but it was refused); Gabriel Wells; Frank Altschul, purchased from Wells Apr. 14, 1927; Herbert H. Lehman.
Notes
Ms. psalter; calendar for the use of Paris; written and illuminated in Paris, France, ca. 1495-1498.
Decoration: 9 large miniatures, 171 small miniatures, 24 calendar illustrations.
Artist: Chief Associate of Maître François and the Master of Philippe of Guelders.
The artist Franç̧ois le Barbier [père] had a son François le Barbier [fils] who took over his father's atelier until his own death in 1501. Maître François and his chief associate have been proposed as this father-son team, the son finishing manuscripts begun by his father and following the same compositional schemes. The Master of Jacques de Besançon has also been suggested as the head of this atelier (see François Avril and Nicole Reynaud, Les enluminures du Louvre: Moyen Âge et Renaissance, Paris, 2011, p. 206).
There are depictions of Charles VIII wearing the collar of the Order of Saint Michael on fols. 7r and 9r.
Revised: 2017
Decoration: 9 large miniatures, 171 small miniatures, 24 calendar illustrations.
Artist: Chief Associate of Maître François and the Master of Philippe of Guelders.
The artist Franç̧ois le Barbier [père] had a son François le Barbier [fils] who took over his father's atelier until his own death in 1501. Maître François and his chief associate have been proposed as this father-son team, the son finishing manuscripts begun by his father and following the same compositional schemes. The Master of Jacques de Besançon has also been suggested as the head of this atelier (see François Avril and Nicole Reynaud, Les enluminures du Louvre: Moyen Âge et Renaissance, Paris, 2011, p. 206).
There are depictions of Charles VIII wearing the collar of the Order of Saint Michael on fols. 7r and 9r.
Revised: 2017
Script
littera rotunda
Language
Latin and French
Resources
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Classification
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