Accession number
MS M.34
Object title
Psalter (MS M.34).
Created
Netherlands, probably Utrecht, ca. 1290.
Binding
Previously bound in 18th-century English calf; now full tan morocco by Marguerite Duprez Lahey.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1900.
Description
264 leaves (1 column, 15 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 110 x 80 mm.
Provenance
Owned (ca. 1860?) by F.S. Ellis; John Allan sale (New York, 1865, no. 2411); Theodore Irwin (Cat., 1887, no. 2300); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) with the Irwin Collection in 1900.
Notes
Ms. psalter for the use of Utrecht; written and illuminated in the Netherlands, probably Utrecht, ca. 1290.
Decoration: 7 full-page miniatures, 9 historiated initials.
Decoration: 7 full-page miniatures, 9 historiated initials.
Script
textura (littera gothica textualis quadrata)
Language
Latin
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