M.103, The Morgan Library & Museum

Holding institution title: Psalter

Holding institution classification: Psalter

Holding institution location: New York, NY

URL: https://www.themorgan.org/manuscript/77043

URL2: N/A

Digitization status: Partially digitized

Date: 1225-1275

Language(s): Latin

Use: Sarum (Office of the Dead), Calendar for the Cluniac Abbey of Reading, Berkshire

Country of production: United Kingdom

City or region of production: Reading

Illumination contents: Janus feasting, Aquarius, Warming before the fire, Pisces, Digging with a spade, Aries, Man sitting on bench, Taurus, Mowing, Leo, Harvesting grain, Virgo, Making wine, Libra, Sowing seed, Scorpio, Slaughtering hogs, Sagittarius, Baking bread, Capricorn

Text contents: Calendar, Canticles, Litany, Collects, Psalter (Psalterium salutationem Beatae Mariae Virginae), Office of the Dead

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Materials: Vellum

Binding original?: No

Binding description: Brown Russia gilt-tooled probably by Douglas Cockerell for William Morris, ca. 1895, in green morocco case lettered: Clare-Pembroke Psalter English c. 1220 from Reading Abbey.

Folio height (in centimeters): 24

Folio width (in centimeters): 17.5

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