Accession number
MS M.280
Object title
Psalter (MS M.280).
Created
Augsburg, Germany, ca. 1235-1250.
Binding
19th-century green morocco for T.O. Weigel; green silk interleaves, in green morocco slip case, labeled: Psalterium.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description
167 leaves (1 columns, 21 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 188 x 125 mm
Provenance
Adapted to Cistercian use for a nunnery in the diocese of Constance; owned (1571) by Magdalena von Breitten Landenberg (1540-1583), prioress of Kloster Lichtenthal in Baden; T.O. Weigel; his sale (Leipzig) July 12, 1898, no. 4); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Olschki in 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. psalter, calendar for Trier; written and illuminated in Augsburg, Germany, ca. 1235-1250.
Decoration: 17 full-page miniatures, 12 zodiac illustrations.
Decoration: 17 full-page miniatures, 12 zodiac illustrations.
Contents
fols. 1v-13r: Calendar and full-page miniatures -- fols. 13v-132r: Psalter -- fols. 132v-142r: Canticles, Te Deum, Athanasian creed -- fols. 143r-162r: Cistercian directory for the diocese of Constance (on paper and vellum, added in the 15th century).
Script
textura
Language
Latin
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