Accession number
PML 29218
Published
London, Printed for the Trustees [of the British Museum] 1932.
Credit line
Gift; The British Museum; 1932.
Notes
Pages selected for their decoration.
Continuous reproduced text is limited to Psalms, LXXVIII, 62-CXIX, 36 in Latin Vulgate (Gallican) version.
"Index of the principal subjects illustrated in the ms.": p. [59]-61 (1st group)
Inscription stamped in gilt on inner upper board: "Replica of inscription placed inside | the front cover of the original MS.| This great monument | of fourteenth century England | was saved for the British Nation | by the generosity of an American citizen | John Pieront Morgan | who advanced the entire purchase money | thirty thousand guineas | lending it to the trustees of | the British Museum | without interest for one year | A.D.MCMXXIX".
Continuous reproduced text is limited to Psalms, LXXVIII, 62-CXIX, 36 in Latin Vulgate (Gallican) version.
"Index of the principal subjects illustrated in the ms.": p. [59]-61 (1st group)
Inscription stamped in gilt on inner upper board: "Replica of inscription placed inside | the front cover of the original MS.| This great monument | of fourteenth century England | was saved for the British Nation | by the generosity of an American citizen | John Pieront Morgan | who advanced the entire purchase money | thirty thousand guineas | lending it to the trustees of | the British Museum | without interest for one year | A.D.MCMXXIX".
Description
61, 183 p. illus., facsims. 46 cm
Provenance
Personal presentation copy for J.P. Morgan with a letter to that effect from Cosimo Gordon Lang tipped in.
Binding
Modern brown morocco stamped in blind and gilt, for J.P. Morgan. In drop-spine case.
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