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Psalter (MS G.19).

Accession number
MS G.19
Object title
Psalter (MS G.19).
Created
England, probably Winchester, ca. 1300
Binding
Late 17th-century English, tooled brown calf over boards.
Credit line
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.
Description
200 leaves (1 column, 22 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 353 x 240 mm.
Provenance
Hyde Abbey, Winchester; Thomas de la Morne, seventeenth century; Robert Blagden Hale; Edward Sherwood Hale; H. Harvey Frost (1873-1969); purchased in July 1952 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, use of Hyde Abbey, Winchester (calendar and litany); written and illuminated in England, probably at Hyde Abbey, Winchester, ca. 1300.
Decoration: 22 calendar roundels (occupations of the months and signs of the zodiac), numerous illuminated initials, border figures on some pages.
Script
textura.
Language
In Latin;
Classification