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Source Description
This fragmentary psalter was made in the thirteenth century in southern Germany. Several quires are missing from the beginning and end of the book, resulting in the loss of a large portion of the psalms, as well as most of the Office of the Dead. The manuscript itself has no decoration outside of slightly enlarged red initials. However, an ornate gilded and jewel-encrusted cover was added to the original wood boards in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century, and it is a product of that era. The only original medieval elements within this pastiche are the thirteenth-century enamels, which are of Cologne origin.
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Document identity
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1250
label
Fragmentary Psalter
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object
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Source metadata
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1250
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object
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normalized
title
Fragmentary Psalter
description
This fragmentary psalter was made in the thirteenth century in southern Germany. Several quires are missing from the beginning and end of the book, resulting in the loss of a large portion of the psalms, as well as most of the Office of the Dead. The manuscript itself has no decoration outside of slightly enlarged red initials. However, an ornate gilded and jewel-encrusted cover was added to the original wood boards in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century, and it is a product of that era. The only original medieval elements within this pastiche are the thirteenth-century enamels, which are of Cologne origin.
provenance
Acquired by Léon Gruel, Paris, late nineteenth or early twentieth century; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
date
1200-1300 (Gothic)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
illuminated manuscripts
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1
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1
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import
dimensions
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cm
width
21
height
15
dimensionsRaw
Overall H: 8 1/4 x W: 5 7/8 in. (21 x 15 cm); Folio H: 8 1/4 × W: 5 13/16 in. (20.9 × 14.7 cm)
Source extras
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German; Christian
RelatedObjects
91608
7355
med
ink and pigments on parchment bound between original wood boards covered with nineteenth- or early twentieth-century gilded metal pastishe with original champlevé enamel panels
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6211
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MSS
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none
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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