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Source Description
Binding is non-original. Possibly fourteenth century; beech boards covered with alum-tawed pigskin(?); pastedowns made from leaves of a thirteenth-century psalter litany; blind-tooled fillet decoration in a diaper pattern on boards, particularly visible on the lower board; brass clasp added in the fifteenth century(?); spine lettered in an eighteenth-century script, reading "Psalterium Msc. pergam. cum canticis et symbolis"
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Document identity
localId
90564
label
Binding from Psalter of St. Mary of Strasbourg
core
obj
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citationUrl
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8
Source metadata
id
90564
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Binding from Psalter of St. Mary of Strasbourg
description
Binding is non-original. Possibly fourteenth century; beech boards covered with alum-tawed pigskin(?); pastedowns made from leaves of a thirteenth-century psalter litany; blind-tooled fillet decoration in a diaper pattern on boards, particularly visible on the lower board; brass clasp added in the fifteenth century(?); spine lettered in an eighteenth-century script, reading "Psalterium Msc. pergam. cum canticis et symbolis"
provenance
Made for use in the Diocese of Constance after 1224; Used by the church of St. Mary of Strasbourg, 14th century; Owned by Dominicans in the 15th century(?); Martin Bassonier, 15th century, [mode of acquisition unknown; signature on back pastedown]; Bénigne-Charles Févret de Saint Mémin (1770-1852), France, [mode of acquisition unknown, bookplate on front pastedown]; Léon Gruel collection, Paris, late 19th or early 20th century, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, before 1931, [acquired from Gruel, mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
possibly 14th century
citationUrl
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CC0
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en
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illuminated manuscripts
bindings
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8
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8
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
20.2
height
14.1
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 7 15/16 x 5 9/16 in. (20.2 x 14.1 cm); Folio H: 7 5/8 x W: 5 3/8 in. (19.4 x 13.7 cm)
Source extras
style
Gothic
med
Possibly fourteenth century; beech boards covered with alum-tawed pigskin(?); pastedowns made from leaves of a thirteenth-century psalter litany; blind-tooled fillet decoration in a diaper pattern on boards, particularly visible on the lower board; brass clasp added in the fifteenth century(?); spine lettered in an eighteenth-century script, reading ""Psalterium Msc. pergam. cum canticis et symbolis""
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