Accession number
MS M.440
Object title
Grosbois psalter (MS M.440).
Created
Liège, Belgium, 1261.
Binding
French calf, ca. 1580; simple gilt-tooled medallion in center with two clasps.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), 1910.
Description
253 leaves (1 column, 22 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 183 x 125 mm
Provenance
Owned (1600-1720) by various members of the Mollière family at Dijon; 18th-century armorial bookplate; perhaps the Quarré family of Burgundy (checky azure and argent on a chief argent a lion passant sable); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Léon Gruel in Dec. 1910; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. psalter-hours; calendar and Office of the Dead for Liège; written and illuminated in Liège, Belgium, in 1261 (the Easter Table on fol. 7r is marked on the year 1261).
Decoration: 8 full-page miniatures, 1 full-page and 17 smaller historiated initials; 6 marginal miniatures, 24 calendar medallions.
Textiles: cloth curtain covers miniature on fol. 207r.
Decoration: 8 full-page miniatures, 1 full-page and 17 smaller historiated initials; 6 marginal miniatures, 24 calendar medallions.
Textiles: cloth curtain covers miniature on fol. 207r.
Script
textura
Language
Latin and French, Walloon
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