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Psalter (MS M155).

Accession number
MS M.155
Object title
Psalter (MS M155).
Created
Liège, Belgium, ca. 1290-1305.
Binding
Flemish 16th-century stamped calf, with 2 clasps, in a red morocco case lettered: Psalterium Davidis - Flemish MS on vellum c. 1340.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902.
Description
168 leaves (1 column, 19 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 160 x 110 mm
Provenance
First owner a woman presumably named Margaret of the family des Pres, Seigneurs of Colonster, their arms (fol. 75): lozengy azure and argent, on a chief argent three martlets gules; Manuel John Johnson, astronomer, owned before 1859; his sale (London, 1862, no. 52) to Edwin H. Lawrence; his sale (London, 1892, no. 534) to Quaritch; William Morris; purchased in 1897 by Richard Bennett from Morris's estate; Catalogue of manuscripts and early printed books from the libraries of William Morris, Richard Bennett, Bertram, fourth Earl of Ashburnham, and other sources, no. 29; 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 Liège, Belgium, ca. 1290-1305.
Decoration: 12 historiated initials.
Artist: attributed by Judith Oliver to Hand 2 of British Library MS Add. 28784--Cf. Gothic manuscript illumination in the diocese of Liege, c. 1250-c. 1330.
Script
textura
Language
Latin
Century
Classification