Accession number:
MS G.25
Title:
Psalter
Created:
England, perhaps London, ca. 1225.
Binding:
19th century red velvet.
Credit:
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.
Description:
182 leaves (1 column, 20 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 330 x 222 mm
Provenance:
André Hachette; his sale, Paris, Librairie Giraud-Badin, Dec. 16, 1953, lot. 33; purchased there by Arthur Rau, Paris 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 England, perhaps London, ca. 1225.
Decoration: 6 full-page miniatures, 2 historiated initials, 1 large interlace initial surrounded by 10 historiated roundels, 8 large interlace initials, most with animals and figures, numerous illuminated initials.
Script:
textura.
Language:
In Latin;
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