Accession number
MS M.505
Object title
Psalter fragment (MS M.505).
Created
France, between 1125 and 1175.
Binding
19th century vellum over paper boards.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1912.
Description
17 leaves (2 columns, 61 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 330 x 210 mm
Provenance
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Leo S. Olschki in 1912; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. leaves from a Biblical psalter; written and illuminated in France, probably in a Cistercian monastery, in the mid 12th century.
Decoration: 5 historiated and 3 floriated initials.
Decoration: 5 historiated and 3 floriated initials.
Script
minuscule
Language
Latin
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