Accession number
MS M.79
Object title
Psalter (MS M.79).
Created
France, Saint-Omer, late 13th century.
Binding
Previously in 19th-century tooled dark green morocco by David, lettered: Heures; in mottled boards; slip case by Marguerite Duprez Lahey; replaced by modern buckram clamshell binding in July, 2001.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902.
Description
190 leaves (1 column, 20 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 140 x 90 mm
Provenance
From the Musée Napoléon (stamp); Jean Paradis, Lyon (not in 1879 sale); William Morris; purchased from Morris's estate in 1897 by Richard Bennett; Catalogue of manuscripts and early printed books from the libraries of William Morris, Richard Bennett, Bertram, fourth Earl of Ashburnham, and other sources, no. 24; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) with the Bennett Collection in 1902; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. psalter; calendar and litany point to Saint-Omer where the manuscript was probably written and illuminated in the late 13th century.
Decoration: 8 large historiated initials on gold grounds and many small ones, 12 calendar illustrations contained within Gothic architectural frames, marginalia of all kinds.
According to Alison Stones this manuscript was illuminated in Saint-Omer between ca. 1290-1300. She points out a stylistic relationship to an earlier bible, Pierpont Morgan Library, Ms M. 969 (see, A. Stones, Gothic Manuscripts, 2013-14, I-2, 512-14, no. III-117).
Revised: 2017
Decoration: 8 large historiated initials on gold grounds and many small ones, 12 calendar illustrations contained within Gothic architectural frames, marginalia of all kinds.
According to Alison Stones this manuscript was illuminated in Saint-Omer between ca. 1290-1300. She points out a stylistic relationship to an earlier bible, Pierpont Morgan Library, Ms M. 969 (see, A. Stones, Gothic Manuscripts, 2013-14, I-2, 512-14, no. III-117).
Revised: 2017
Script
textura
Language
Latin
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