Accession number
MS M.98
Object title
Psalter (MS M.98).
Created
France, Beauvais or, more probably, Paris, ca. 1276-1285.
Binding
19th-century dark brown tooled morocco over wooden boards with 2 clasps; lettered: Psalterium Davidis.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), 1902.
Description
164 leaves (1 column, 21 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 226 x 160 mm
Provenance
W. Bragge Collection (Leeds exhibition, 1868, no. 562); his sale (London, 1876, no. 368) to S. Addington; his sale (London, 1886, no. 462) to Ellis; sold (June 10, 1888) by Ellis to C. Fairfax Murray; Charles Butler; William Morris (1834-1896; purchased from Butler, probably before 1894); Richard Bennett (1849-1930; purchased from Morris's estate, 1897); Catalogue of manuscripts and early printed books from the libraries of William Morris, Richard Bennett, Bertram, fourth Earl of Ashburnham, and other sources, no. 23; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) with the Bennett Collection in 1902; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. psalter; written and illuminated in Beauvais or Paris, France, last quarter of 13th century before the death in 1285 of Philippe III the Bold, King of France, probably referred to in a prayer on fol. 163v (see, Alison Stones, Gothic Manuscripts, 2013-14, I-1 p. 82).
Artists: Charlemagne Master (fol. 1) and Cholet style.
Decoration: 8 historiated initials and line endings with animals, fish, hybrids and foliate ornament.
Revised: 2017
Artists: Charlemagne Master (fol. 1) and Cholet style.
Decoration: 8 historiated initials and line endings with animals, fish, hybrids and foliate ornament.
Revised: 2017
Script
textura
Language
Latin
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