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Source Description
This binding from a 13th century psalter was added to the manuscript probably by Léon Gruel in the late 19th or early 20th century. This manuscript was created in Flanders ca. 1270-80. Originally a standard liturgical Psalter, it was converted in the fourteenth century for the use of an English owner, possibly a cleric, through the addition of a second litany focused on English saints and an Office of the Dead. The illuminations, composed of vignettes depicting labors of the months in the calendar and historiated initials within the psalms themselves, belong to the first phase of production and are characteristic of Psalter iconography from the Bruges-Ghent region during this period.
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Document identity
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93431
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Binding from Psalter with Office of the Dead and Litany
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Binding from Psalter with Office of the Dead and Litany
description
This binding from a 13th century psalter was added to the manuscript probably by Léon Gruel in the late 19th or early 20th century. This manuscript was created in Flanders ca. 1270-80. Originally a standard liturgical Psalter, it was converted in the fourteenth century for the use of an English owner, possibly a cleric, through the addition of a second litany focused on English saints and an Office of the Dead. The illuminations, composed of vignettes depicting labors of the months in the calendar and historiated initials within the psalms themselves, belong to the first phase of production and are characteristic of Psalter iconography from the Bruges-Ghent region during this period.
provenance
Likely created by Léon Gruel, Paris, late 19th-early 20th century; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
date
late 19th-early 20th century
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cm
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22.4
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16.6
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H: 8 13/16 × W: 6 9/16 in. (22.4 × 16.6 cm)
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red velvet
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6505
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none
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