Accession number:
MS M.934
Title:
Psalter
Created:
Paris, France, between 1495 and 1498.
Binding:
Full royal blue velvet, gold clasps, gauffered gilt edges, by Simier; in full midnight blue morocco box-case, leather lined.
Credit:
Gift; Herbert H. Lehman; 1968.
Description:
228 leaves (1 column, 28 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 263 x 192 mm
Provenance:
Probably owned by King Charles VIII (1483-1498); Théophile Belin of Paris (offered this ms. to J.P. Morgan (1837-1913) in 1910 but it was refused); Gabriel Wells; Frank Altschul, purchased from Wells Apr. 14, 1927; Herbert H. Lehman.
Notes:
Ms. psalter; calendar for the use of Paris; written and illuminated in Paris, France, ca. 1495-1498.
Decoration: 9 large miniatures, 171 small miniatures, 24 calendar illustrations.
Artist: Chief Associate of Maître François and the Master of Philippe of Guelders.
Script:
littera rotunda
Language:
Latin and French
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