Psalter
Accession number:
MS M.338
Title:
Psalter
Created:
Tournai, Belgium, ca. 1200.
Binding:
English 13th-century pink stamped and gilt leather over boards, in brown box case, with hinges of two clasps remaining.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), 1908.
Description:
209 leaves (1 and 2 columns, 38 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 335 x 238 mm
Provenance:
Beauvais Cathedral (15th-century Catalogue, no. 40, paper ticket on reverse of upper cover of manuscript reads: Beauvais Inv. 1408....1869); Comte de Troussures; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from the Comte de Troussures in 1908; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. commentary and gloss on Psalms 1-50; written and illuminated in Tournai, ca. 1200.
Decoration: 50 historiated initials, some marginal illustrations; Flemish Gothic style.
Artist: Ingeborg Psalter atelier.
Simon de Tournai's commentary on the Psalms in French, and Psalms 1-50 in Latin with interlinear translation in French.
Scribe: Probably executed by Danish scribes.--Cf. Liebman (1982), p. 52.
Script:
textura
Language:
Latin and old French
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