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2957  :  Psalter (Sarum)

Number

2957


Shelf Marks

  • Philadelphia, Free Library, Lewis E 182
  • John Frederick Lewis
  • London, Wilfrid Michael Voynich

Owners before c.1550

  • (England)

Commissioners

  • (English market)
    • Foreigner
    • Gender :

Country

USA


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Flanders
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1470; c.1480
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1470 - 1479

Physical description

Measurements

  • 165 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 250-274 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 270 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 194 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 19
  • Number of miniatures : 7
  • Number of historiated initials : 12
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Golden Fleece (follower)(large miniatures)
  • M Edward IV (small miniatures)

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : (red morocco)
  • Dating : Unknown


Content

Genre

liturgical

Authors

/

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Psalter (Sarum)

Languages

  • Latin

Bibliography

Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, (Master Edward IV)

Thomas Kren & Scot McKendrick, with contributions by Maryan W. Ainsworth, Mari-Tere Alvarez, Brigitte Dekeyser, Richard Gay, Elisabeth Morrison & Catherine Reynolds, Illuminating the Renaissance. The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe, exhib. cat., Los Angeles-London 2003, p.264 (erroneously ?)

Edwin Wolf, A descriptive catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia 1937, p. 196 (2 ill.)

James R. Tanis (ed.), Leaves of Gold. Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections, exhib. cat., Philadelphia 2001, no. 13

Online Informations and images

http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/LewisE182_4

Photo Archives

Leuven, Illuminare, Slides nos. 15681-697, 15724

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman