Psalter-Hours of Brother Guimier
This unusually large Psalter-Hours was created in the last quarter of the thirteenth century in the Thérouanne region of northeastern France, considered Flanders at the time. Illuminated throughout with elaborate decorated and historiated initials, the manuscript also contains...
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[1] [2] Dominus Henricus Iordanus, France, late 16th century (?) [3]; given to Iohannes Guimier, France, 1590 [3]. Unknown English owner, England, 2nd half 19th century [4]. Acquired by Léon Gruel, Paris, late 19th-early 20th century [5]; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1903; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] Likely created for the use of Thérouanne for a male supplicant as indicated on fol. 151r, though the form of the collect changes from male to female[2] Obituary added in calendar for March 18 in a 14th century hand: ""domini Iamberti de tolneere annon lvi""[3] Dated inscription on fol. 1r indicates the gift[4] Notes and inscriptions, e.g. fol. 194r ""v r second of April, 1889"" (erased but still visible, upside down)[5] Bookplate inscribed ""No 129""
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