Accession number
MS M.237
Object title
Psalter of the Virgin (MS M.237).
Created
England, ca. 1400.
Binding
English Russia leather, ca. 1840; lettered: Psalt. MS Illum.; in blue morocco case lettered: English Psalter, circa 1390.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description
44 leaves (1 column, 10 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 110 x 70 mm
Provenance
Bought by YTMO...TUS? de Hadham Parva (15th century inscription on last leaf.); no. 18 in a library (ca. 1800), Andrew Fountaine sale (London, 1902, no. 695) to Leighton; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Pearson in 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. psalter of the Virgin, followed by a litany; written and illuminated in England, ca. 1400.
Decoration: two illuminated borders.
Decoration: two illuminated borders.
Script
textura
Language
Latin
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