Psalter

Accession number: 
MS M.558.1
Title: 
Psalter
Created: 
Milan, Italy, second quarter of 15th cent.
Credit: 
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), 1912.
Description: 
1 leaf (cutting), matted : vellum, ill. ; 94 x 106 mm
Provenance: 
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Vladimir G. Simkhovitch in 1912; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes: 

Ms. single leaf, perhaps from a psalter; written and illuminated in Milan, Italy, in the second quarter of the 15th century.
Musical notation: on verso, 4-line stave in red ink, with square notes.
Text on verso: sanctam.
Decoration: 1 historiated initial with three martyrs.
Artist: Girolamo da Milano, the Olivetan Master.
Matted with Pierpont Morgan Library. MS M.558.2.

Script: 
textura
Language: 
Latin
Century: 
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