Accession number
MS G.2
Object title
Psalter (MS G.2).
Created
France, possibly Arras, 1260-1280.
Binding
19th-century English morocco in leather case.
Credit line
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.
Description
214 leaves (1 column, 17 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 154 x 104 mm
Provenance
Sir Thomas Brooke of Huddersfield; Reverend W. Ingham Brooke; his sale, London, Sotheby's, Mar. 7, 1913, lot 15; London, Sotheby's, July 22, 1936, lot 562; purchased in Jan. 1937 from Maggs Brothers Ltd., London. for William S. Glazier (1907-1962), New York; deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library by the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection in 1963.
Notes
Ms. psalter; written and illuminated in Artois, France (possibly Arras), between 1260 and 1280.
Artist: related to the Master of the Pontifical of Cambrai in Toledo (see, A. Stones, Gothic Manuscripts 1260-1320 : Part I, London, 2013, I, p. 63).
Revised: 2017
Decoration: 1 full-page and 9 smaller historiated initials, all with marginal extensions; numerous filigree initials; numerous geometric line endings.
Artist: related to the Master of the Pontifical of Cambrai in Toledo (see, A. Stones, Gothic Manuscripts 1260-1320 : Part I, London, 2013, I, p. 63).
Revised: 2017
Decoration: 1 full-page and 9 smaller historiated initials, all with marginal extensions; numerous filigree initials; numerous geometric line endings.
Script
textura.
Language
Latin;
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