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Add MS 37472, f 1
- Record Id:
- 040-003389675
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002053831
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100051439104.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165366789.0x000007
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- Add MS 37472, f 1
- Title:
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Picture leaf from a Psalter
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
A leaf with part of a prefatory cycle of miniatures, formerly part of a Psalter that is now Trinity College, Cambridge, MS R.17.1 (the 'Eadwine Psalter'). Other leaves from the same manuscript are now New York, Pierpont Morgan Library M 724 and M 521, and London, Victoria and Albert Museum MS 661 (see Dodwell, Canterbury School (1954).
Decoration:
24 square miniatures in colours on blue, green and yellow grounds with decorated frames in red or blue, in four rows of three on both the recto and verso folio, the second and last five miniatures on the verso being divided horizontally into two compartments.
The subjects of the miniatures are:
f. 1r, first row: the Annunciation to the Shepherds, the Magi pointing to the star, the Magi before Herod;
f. 1r, second row: the Jews before Herod; the Magi riding; the Adoration of the Magi;
f. 1r, third row: the Angel warns the Magi, the Presentation in the Temple, the Angel warns Joseph;
f. 1r, fourth row: the Flight into Egypt, the Massacre of the Innocents, Herod's death;
f. 1v, first row: the Baptism of Christ, the Wedding at Cana, the wine is brought;
f. 1v, second row: the three Temptations of Christ;
f. 1v, third row: Christ healing the Leper, Christ healing a man (above), Christ washing his hands at supper with the Disciples (below), foxes in holes (above), Christ teaching a man with a scroll (below);
f. 1v, fourth row: Christ calming the storm (above), Christ casting out demons (below), Christ healing the paralysed man, Christ at supper with the disciples (above), Christ healing Jauirus's daughter (below).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002053831
040-003389675 - Is part of:
- Add MS 37472 : Seven cuttings from illuminated manuscripts
Add MS 37472, f 1 : Picture leaf from a Psalter - Hierarchy:
- 032-002053831[0001]/040-003389675
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 37472
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 parchment folio in a window mount
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165149155.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1125
- End Date:
- 1149
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 290 x 300mm.
Foliation: foliated as 'f. 1' and kept in a box with six other cuttings, Additional MS 37472, ff. 2-7.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Mounted in a double-sided window mount and boxed.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England, S. (Canterbury).
Provenance:
This leaf, MS M. 724, and six other prefatory leaves were probably removed from the Eadwine Psalter between 1584, when Richard Arkinstall gave the Psalter to Cambridge University, and its rebinding, before Thomas Nevile (d. 1615) gave it to Trinity College, where it is today.
William Young Ottley (b. 1771, d.1836), four leaves were acquired him: his sale at Sotheby's on 12 May 1838, lots 130-133. One leaf was purchased by the Department of Prints and Drawings of the British Museum.
Transferred to the British Museum Department of Manuscripts, 26 February 1907.
- Publications:
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Georg Swarzenski, Die Salzburger Malerei, 2 vols (Leipzig: Hiersemann, 1913), I, 135 n. 3.
[J. A. Herbert], British Museum: Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series 3, 3rd edn (London: British Museum, 1925), pl. 11.
Eric. G. Millar, English Illuminated Manuscripts from the Xth to the XIIIth Century (Paris: Van Oest, 1926), p. 114.
M. R. James, 'Four Leaves of an English Psalter, 12th century', Walpole Society, 25 (Oxford, 1937), pl. 7.
C. R. Dodwell, The Canterbury School of Illumination (1954), pp. 99-102.
T. S. R. Boase, English Art 1100-1216, Oxford History of English Art, 2 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957), pp. 109-10, 289, pl. 95a, 95b.
Otto Pächt, C. R. Dodwell, and Francis Wormald, The St. Albans Psalter (Albani Psalter) (London: Warburg Institute, 1960), pp. 75, 158 n. 3, 169.
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. 33.
Florens Deuchler, Der Ingeborgpsalter (Berlin: de Gruyter & Co., 1967), p. 43.
C. M. Kauffmann, Romanesque Manuscripts 1066-1190, Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 3 (London: Harvey Miller, 1975), no. 66.
English Romanesque Art 1066-1200, Hayward Gallery, London 5 April-8 July 1984 (London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1984), no. 48.
The Eadwine Psalter: Text, Image, and Monastic Culture in Twelfth-Century Canterbury, ed. by Margaret Gibson, T. A. Heslop, and Richard W. Pfaff, Modern Humanities Research Association, 14 (London: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992), pp. 25-27, 36-37, 40, 195, pls 9-10, 15a, 15d, 15f, 16b, 17a.
Debra Hassig, Medieval Bestiaries: Text, Image, Ideology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), p. 219 n. 8.
Walter Cahn, Romanesque Manuscripts: The Twelfth Century (London: Harvey Miller, 1996), II, 71, 130.
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997), no. 32.
C. M. Kauffmann, Biblical Imagery in Medieval England 700-1500 (London: Harvey Miller, 2003), pp. 111, 114-16, 227.
Scot McKendrick and Kathleen Doyle, Bible Manuscripts: 1400 Years of Scribes and Scripture (London: British Library, 2007), p. 91, fig. 78.
John Munns, 'The Artists of the Eadwine Psalter Leaves', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 14.2 (2009), 115-26, online at http://www.jstor.org/stable/41429183 [accessed on 28.11.2017].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)