Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Psalter (MS G.2).

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.
Script
textura.
Language
Latin;
Century
Classification