Record ID:
77066
Accession number:
MS M.79
Title:
Psalter
Created:
France, possibly 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:
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; written and illuminated in France, perhaps Saint-Omer, late 13th century (before 1298).
Decoration: 8 large historiated initials on gold grounds and many small ones, 12 calendar illustrations.
Script:
textura
Language:
Latin
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