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Source Description
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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28153
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Psalter, with Office of the Dead and Litany
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title
Psalter, with Office of the Dead and Litany
description
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
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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ca. 1270-1280 (Gothic)
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illuminated manuscripts
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cm
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22.4
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16.6
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Folio H: 8 13/16 × W: 6 9/16 in. (22.4 × 16.6 cm)
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ink and pigments on parchment bound between velvet
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