London, British Library, Additional 37472 (1) Pictorial Preface to a Psalter (with Cambridge Trinity College R. 17. 1 [85], London, Victoria and Albert Museum 661 [319a], New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, M. 521 and M. 724 [332a])

Abstract

165a. London, British Library, Additional 37472 (1)

Pictorial Preface to a Psalter

(with Cambridge Trinity College R. 17. 1 [85],

London, Victoria and Albert Museum 661 [319a],

New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, M. 521 and M. 724 [332a])

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HISTORY: A single illustrated leaf thought to be from the "Eadwine Psalter" (Cambridge, Trinity College R. 17. 1 (85]), dated to 1155-1160, from Christ Church, Canterbury, and forming part of a series of illustrations prefacing the Psalter, along with the single leaf, London, Victoria and Albert Museum 661 [319a], and the two leaves, New York, Pierpont Morgan Library M. 521 and M. 724 [332a]. Likely removed from the "Eadwine Psalter" before it came to Cambridge, Trinity College in the early 17c. See history of"Eadwine Psalter" (85]. All four leaves recorded in the W Young Ottley Sale of 1838; this leaf was lot 131 (Ottley Sale Catalogue 1838) and was bought by Tindall for £1; David McIntosh sold the leaf at Christie's, London, on 20 May 1857 as lot 771; bought by the British Museum (Kauffmann 1975: 95).