Accession number:
MS M.505
Title:
Psalter
Created:
France, between 1125 and 1175.
Binding:
19th century vellum over paper boards.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1912.
Description:
17 leaves (2 columns, 61 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 330 x 210 mm
Provenance:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Leo S. Olschki in 1912; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. leaves from a Biblical psalter; written and illuminated in France, probably in a Cistercian monastery, in the mid 12th century.
Decoration: 5 historiated and 3 floriated initials.
Script:
minuscule
Language:
Latin
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