Accession number:
PML 29275
Published:
Hammersmith : Printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, 7 July 1896.
Description:
[2], 34 p. ; 30 cm.
Notes:
Ornamental initials; marginal decorations; printed in black, red, and blue.
"These poems are taken from a Psalter written by an English scribe, most likely in one of the Midland counties, early in the 13th century" -- colophon.
"... these poems ... were printed in 1579, in a 16mo volume with the title Psalterium divae virginis Mariae, rhythmice conscriptum a Reverendissimo domino Stephano, olim Archepiscopo Cantuariensi [i.e. Stephen Langton]" -- slip, dated 28 December 1896, pasted to end flyleaf.
Also sometimes attributed to John Peckham.
Binding:
Red morocco, gilt, by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson at the Doves Bindery, dated 1901; in red cloth box.
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