Accession number
MS G.8
Object title
Psalter (MS G.8).
Created
Germany or Switzerland, between 1208 and 1228.
Binding
German blind-rolled and blind-stamped pigskin by "P.A.," possibly of Weingarten, dated 1570.
Credit line
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.
Description
144 leaves (1 column, 23 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 218 x 150 mm
Provenance
Hohenzollern Schlossbibliothek, Sigmaringen (ms. 11); purchased in Mar. 1949 from William H. Schab, New York, for William S. Glazier (1907-1962), New York; deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library by the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection in 1963.
Notes
Ms. psalter; written and illuminated in Germany or Switzerland, probably in the diocese of Constance, between 1208 and 1228.
Decoration: 9 full-page miniatures, 1 half-page miniature, 9 calendar roundels (signs of the zodiac), 3 large illuminated initials, numerous smaller illuminated initials and geometric line endings.
Decoration: 9 full-page miniatures, 1 half-page miniature, 9 calendar roundels (signs of the zodiac), 3 large illuminated initials, numerous smaller illuminated initials and geometric line endings.
Script
rotunda.
Language
Latin;
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