Psalter, with Office of the Dead and Litany

ca. 1270-1280 (Gothic)

16.6 cm 22.4 cm

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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...

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Possibly owned by a cleric, England, 14th century [1]. Russian ownership, ca. 19th century [2]. Acquired by Léon Gruel, Paris, late 19th-early 20th century [3]; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] obituary on fol. 4v and additional texts added at this time[2] imperial Russian ownership stamp with the word ""Expecto"" fol. 1r[3] Gruel's bookplate and no. 1448 on front pastedown
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