M.72, The Morgan Library & Museum

Holding institution title: Psalter

Holding institution classification: Psalter

Holding institution location: New York, NY

URL: https://www.themorgan.org/manuscript/112429

URL2: N/A

Digitization status: Partially digitized

Date: 1270-1280

Language(s): Latin

Use:

Country of production: Belgium

City or region of production: Ghent

Illumination contents: Feasting, Holding a candle, Pruning vines, Holding flowering branch, Falconing, Gathering firewood, Mowing, Reaping, Plucking grapes, Sowing, Gathering acorns, Slaughtering a pig, Annunciation, Nativity, Adoration of the Magi, Baptism of Christ, Entry into Jerusalem, Flagellation of Christ, Crucifixion, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Nahum, Micah, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, Resurrection of Christ and Harrowing of Hell in initial B, Noli me tangere, St. Stephen in initial D, Incredulity of Thomas, St. Lawrence in initial D, St. Bartholomew in initial Q, Ascension of Christ, Beheading of St. John the Baptist in initial D, Pentecost, St. Nicholas in initial S, Death and Coronation of the Virgin, St. Nicholas in initial E, St. Dominic and friars blessed by hand of God, St. Martin, St. Francis preaching to birds, St. Peter in initial D, Last Judgment, Coronation of the Virgin in initial D

Text contents: Calendar, Psalter, Canticles, Litany

Hours intercalated?:

Personalization: A fleur-de-lis and heraldic initials are visible in the border of f. 14v.

Scribe:

Illuminator: Tweede Groep

Patron:

Materials: Vellum

Binding original?: No

Binding description: Formerly in red velvet; rebound by Marguerite Duprez Lahey in red morocco; lettered: Psalterium Davidis; in brown morocco case lettered: Psalterium Davidis, French-Paris-C. MCCL.

Folio height (in centimeters): 15.7

Folio width (in centimeters): 11.5

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