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Arundel MS 83
- Record Id:
- 040-002039364
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002039280
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000395.0x000252
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Arundel MS 83
- Title:
- Psalter and Hours (the 'Howard Psalter') and Psalter (the 'De Lisle Psalter')
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
The manuscript is composed of at least two formerly independent volumes:
ff. 1r-116v: A Psalter and Hours, known as the 'Howard Psalter' (Arundel MS 83 I).
ff. 177r-135v: A calendar and the Speculum theologiae, a collection of diagrams attributed to John of Metz, that originally formed part of a Psalter, known as the 'De Lisle Psalter' (Arundel MS 83 II).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Arundel Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002039280
040-002039364 - Is part of:
- Arundel MS 1-550 : Arundel Manuscripts
Arundel MS 83 : Psalter and Hours (the 'Howard Psalter') and Psalter (the 'De Lisle Psalter') - Contains:
- Arundel MS 83, ff 1r-116v : Psalter and Hours (the 'Howard Psalter')
Arundel MS 83, ff 117r-135v : Calendar and prefatory cycle of miniatures and diagrams (the 'De Lisle Psalter')
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- 032-002039280[0084]/040-002039364
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Arundel MS 1-550
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A parchment codex, 135 folios.
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Arundel_MS_83 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1303
- End Date:
- 1345
- Date Range:
- c 1308-c 1340
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Foliation: ff. 135 (+ 9 unfoliated paper flyleaves: 4 at the beginning and 5 at the end; 1 original parchment leaf after f. 105; modern paper interleaves preceding miniatures).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding. Rebound in 1963; gilt edges.
- Custodial History:
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Provenance:
Lord William Howard (b. 1563, d. 1640), antiquary and landowner, the younger son of Thomas Howard (b. 1538, d. 1572), 4th Duke of Norfolk, who perhaps first bound them together, probably because of their similar series of diagrams: inscribed 'William Howarde 1591' (Arundel MS 83 I, f. 3r), and 'William Howarde 1590' with the usual sketch of a rampant lion (Arundel MS 83 II, f. 117r); bequeathed to his nephew, Thomas Howard.
Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd Earl of Arundel, 4th Earl of Surrey, and 1st earl of Norfolk, art collector and politician.
Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th Duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.
The Royal Society, London: its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.' (f. 2r).
Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831.
- Information About Copies:
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- Publications:
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Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: British Museum, 1834-1840), I, part 1: The Arundel Manuscripts, pp. 22-23.
Walter de Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Illustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster and Sons, 1879), p. 8.
George F. Warner, Illuminated Manuscripts in The British Museum, Series I-IV (London: British Museum, 1903), pl. 31.
Christopher Wordsworth and Henry Littlehales, The Old Service-Books of the English Church, 2nd edn (London: Methuen & Co., 1910), pl. VIII.
J. A. Herbert, Illuminated Manuscripts (London: Methuen, 1911), p. 224, pl. XXXIII.
John Bradley, Illuminated Manuscripts, 2nd edn (London: Bracken Books, 1920), p. 274, no. 6.
Schools of Illumination: Reproductions from Manuscripts in the British Museum, 6 vols (London: British Museum, 1914-1930), III (1921), pls 1-4.
[J. A. Herbert], British Museum: Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series 3, 3rd edn (London: British Museum, 1925), pls 23-25.
Eric. G. Millar, English Illuminated Manuscripts of the XIVth and XVth Century (Paris: Van Oest, 1928), pls 7-13.
Guide to an Exhibition of English Art (London: British Museum, 1934), no. 122.
F. Saxl, 'A Spiritual Encyclopedia of the Late Middle Ages', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 5 (1942), 82-134.
Arthur Watson, The Early Iconography of the Tree of Jesse (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1934), p. 70 n. 1.
Peter Brieger, English Art 1216-1307, Oxford History of English Art, 4 (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1957), pp. 224, 273, pl. 88b.
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 51.
Margaret Rickert, Painting in Britain: the Middle Ages, 2nd edn (London: Penguin Books, 1965), pp. 132-33, 137, 139, 151, 239 n. 13, 241 n. 44, 45, pl. 134.
Lilian M. C. Randall, Images in the Margins of Gothic Manuscripts (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966), p. 29.
Illuminated Manuscripts Exhibited in the Grenville Library (London, British Museum, 1967), no. 21.
Lucy Freeman Sandler, 'A Follower of Jean Pucelle in England', Art Bulletin, 52, 4 (1970), 363-72 (pp. 364-72, pls. 6-10).
Peter Brieger, ‘England’, in Art and the Courts: France and England from 1259 to 1328, The National Gallery of Canada, 1972 (Ottowa: National Gallery, 1972), pp. 28-49 (pp. 32, fig. 26).
Lucy Freeman Sandler, The Peterborough Psalter in Brussels and other Fenland Manuscripts (London: Harvey Miller, 1974), pp. 98-99, 128, 137.
Lucy Freeman Sandler, 'An Early Fourteenth-Century English Breviary at Longleat', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 39 (1976), 1-20 (pp. 11-14).
François Avril, L'enluminure à l'époque gothique 1200-1420 (Paris: Famot, 1979), pp. 95-96.
M.-T. d'Alverny, 'Alain de Lille: problèmes d'attribution', in Alain de Lille, Gautier de Châtillon, Jakemart Giélée,Actes du colloque de Lille, ed. by Henri Roussel and François Suard (Lille: Presses universitaires de Lille, 1980), pp. 27-46 [on the text De sex alis cherubim].
Richard Marks and Nigel Morgan, The Golden Age of English Manuscript Painting 1200-1500 (London: Chatto & Windus, 1981), pl. 22.
Brunsdon Yapp, Birds in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1981), pl. 27.
Lucy Freemen Sandler, The Psalter of Robert de Lisle in the British Library (London: Harvey Miller, 1983).
John E. Murdoch, Album of Science: Antiquity and the Middle Ages, ed. by I. B. Cohen (New York: Scribner's Sons, 1984), nos 21, 45, 58, 276.
Lucy Freemen Sandler, Gothic Manuscripts 1285-1385, Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles (Harvey Miller: London, 1986), no. 38 and 51.
Paul Binski, The Painted Chamber at Westminster (London: Society of Antiquaries of London, 1986), pp. 79-80.
The Age of Chivalry: Art in Plantagent England 1200-1400, ed. by Jonathan Alexander and Paul Binski (London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1987), no. 569 [exhibition catalogue].
François Avril and Patricia Danz Stirnemann, Manuscrits enluminés d’origine insulaire VIIe-XXe siècle (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1987), p. 137.
Christopher Norton, Dominican Painting in East Anglia: The Thornham Parva Retable and the Musée de Cluny Frontal (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1987), pl. 79.
M. A. Michael, 'Oxford, Cambridge and London: Towards a Theory for 'Grouping' Gothic Manuscripts', Burlington Magazine, 130 (1988), 107-15 (p. 113).
Judith H. Oliver, Gothic Manuscript Illumination in the Diocese of Liège (c. 1250 - c. 1330), Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts from the Low Countries, 2-3, 2 vols (Leuven: Uitgverij Peeters, 1988), I, 76 n. 68.
Jennifer O'Reilly, Studies in the Iconography of the Virtues and the Vices in the Middle Ages (New York: Garland, 1988, print of an unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Nottingham, 1972), pp. 375-76..
Francis Wormald, Collected Writings, ed. by J. J. G. Alexander, T. J. Brown, and Joan Gibbs, 2 vols (London: Harvey Miller, 1984-1988), II: Studies in English and Continental Art of the Later Middle Ages, p. 86.
Adelaide Bennett, 'A Book Designed for a Noblewoman, in Medieval Book Production: Assessing the Evidence, ed. by Linda l. Brownrigg, Proceedings of the Second Conference of The Seminar in the History of the Book to 1500, Oxford, July 1988 (Los Altos Hills, California: Anderson-Lovelace, 1990), pp. 163-81 (p. 179 n. 11).
Nigel Morgan, 'Texts and Images of Marian Devotion in Fourteenth-Century England', in England in the Fourteenth Century: Proceedings of the 1991 Harlaxton Symposium, ed. by. Nicholas Rogers (Stamford: Watkins, 1993), pp. 30-53 (p. 41).
Paul Binski, Westminster Abbey and the Plantagenets: Kingship and The Representation of Power, 1200-1400 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995), pp. 171-73, 181.
Robert W. Scheller, Exemplum: Model-Book Drawings and the Practice of Artistic Transmission in the Middle Ages (ca. 900 - ca. 1450), (Amsterdam: University Press, 1995), p. 209 n. 10.
Paul Binski, Medieval Death: Ritual and Representation (London: British Museum Press, 1996), p. 171.
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997), no. 82.
Nicolas Bell, Music in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2001), p. 47.
Christopher de Hamel, The British Library Guide to Manuscript Illumination: History and Techniques (London: British Library, 2001), pl. 30.
Mary Coker Joslin and Carolyn Coker Joslin Watson, The Egerton Genesis (London: British Library, 2001), pp. 31, 163, 167, 192, 199.
Susanne Rischpler, Biblia Sacra figuris expressa: Mnemotechnische Bilderbibeln des 15. Jahrhunderts, Wissensliteratur im Mittelalter, 36, ed. by Horst Brunner and others (Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2001), p. 43.
Lucy Sandler, ‘John of Metz, The Tower of Wisdom’, in: The Medieval Craft of Memory: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures, ed. by Mary Carruthers and Jan M. Ziolkowski (Philadelphia, 2002), pp. 215–25.
C. M. Kauffmann, Biblical Imagery in Medieval England 700-1500 (London: Harvey Miller, 2003), p. 230.
Paul Binski, Becket’s Crown: Art and Imagination in Gothic England 1170-1300 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004), pls 146, 157.
Maidie Hilmo, Medieval Images, Icons, and Illustrated English Literary Texts: From the Ruthwell Cross to the Ellesmere Chaucer (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004), p. 185 n. 89.
Lucy Freeman Sandler, The Lichtenthal Psalter and the Manuscript Patronage of the Bohun Family (London: Harvey Miller, 2004), p. 159 n. 87.
The Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West, ed. by Paul Binski and Stella Panayotova (London: Harvey Miller, 2005), pp. 80, 191.
Treasures of the British Library, ed. by Nicolas Barker and others (London: British Library, 2005), p. 125.
Greg Buzwell, Saints in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2005), p. 27.
Richard Ovenden, ‘The libraries of the antiquaries (c. 1580-1640) and the idea of a national collection’, in The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland, ed. by Elisabeth Leedham-Green and Teresa Webber, 3 vols (Cambridge: University Press, 2006), I: To 1640, pp. 527-61 (pp. 541-43).
Deirdre Jackson, Marvellous to Behold: Miracles in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2007), pl. 3.
Scot McKendrick and Kathleen Doyle, Bible Manuscripts: 1400 Years of Scribes and Scripture (London: British Library, 2007), p. 129, fig. 116.
Mary J. Carruthers, 'Ars oblivionalis, ars inveniendi:The Cherub Figure and the Arts of Memory', Gesta, 48:2 (2009), 99-117.
Lucy Freeman Sandler, 'The Howard Psalter in the British Library and the Hours of the Passion in Fourteenth-Century English Manuscripts', in Tributes to Adelaide Bennett Hagens: Manuscripts, Iconography, and the Late Medieval Viewer, ed. by Pamela A. Patton and Judith K. Golden (Turnhout: Brepols, 2017), pp. 259-95.
Kathryn A. Smith, ‘Moralizing the Mass in the Butler Hours’, Manuscript Studies, 4, 2 (Fall 2019), 187-230 (pp. 201-203, 220, fig. 6).
Christian Heck, 'Imitatiopietatis, quête du ciel et carré logique dans l’iconographie dominicaine (Toulouse, ms. 418)', in La Bibliothèque des dominicains de Toulouse, ed. by Emilie Nadal et Magali Vène (Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Midi, 2020) pp. 90-105 (p. 100, fig. 7-6).
Lucy Freeman Sandler, 'Religious Instruction and Devotional Study: The Pictorial and the Textual in Gothic Diagrams', in The Visualisation of Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. by Marcia Ann Kupfer, Jeffrey Howard Chajes, and Adam S. Cohen (Turnhout: Brepols, 2020), pp. 429-48 (pp. 432-35, 441-44).
- Exhibitions:
- Opus Anglicanum: Masterpieces of English Medieval Embroidery, V&A, London, 1 October 2016 - 5 February 2017
The Middle Ages, (online), 26 March 2015- - Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- De Lisle Psalter. Exhibited: Opus Anglicanum: Masterpieces of English Medieval Embroidery, V&A, London, 10 October 2016 - 5 February 2017.