Accession number
MS M.176
Object title
Psalter (MS M.176).
Created
Paris, France, ca. 1380.
Binding
French brown calf, ca. 1600, bound for N.L.C. (Nicolas Le Camus).
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902.
Description
100 leaves (2 columns, 30 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 180 x 120 mm
Provenance
Nicolas Le Camus "notaire", owner in 1562 (see also Pierpont Morgan Library. MS M.129); Elizabeth Lecamus; no. 2632 in a French 18th-century catalogue; Sotheby's sale (London, June 1, 1894, no. 123) to Robson; 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. 25; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) with the Bennett Collection in 1902; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. psalter for the use of Paris (calendar); written and illuminated in Paris, France, ca. 1380.
Decoration: 1 historiated initial.
Decoration: 1 historiated initial.
Script
textura
Language
Latin
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