London, Victoria and Albert Museum 661 Pictorial Preface to a Psalter (with Cambridge Trinity College R. 17. 1 [85], London, British Library, Add. 37472(1) [165a], New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, M. 521 and M. 724 [332a])

Abstract

319a. London, Victoria and Albert Museum 661

Pictorial Preface to a Psalter

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

London, British Library, Add. 37472(1) [165a],

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

[Ker-, Gneuss -]

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 an introductory cycle of illustrations for the Psalter, along with the three leaves London, BL Additional 37472 (1) [165a] and New York Pierpont Morgan Library M. 521 and M. 724 [332a]. Likely removed from the "Eadwine Psalter" in the early 17c before the latter came to Trinity College, perhaps when bound in London. All four leaves were present in the W Young Ottley sale of 1838, this leaf as lot 132 (Ottley Sale Catalogue 1838), purchased by Lloyd for £2.2s; sold by N. P. Simes through Christie's London on 9 July 1886, lot 1095 (Kauffmann 1975: 95); the leaf was purchased by the Victoria and Albert Museum along with a number of other leaves in 1894 from Charles Fairfax Murray for £50, the date on the receipt marked 31 August. Transferred to the Department of Prints and Drawings on 8 June 1906. The leaf was originally identified referenced under the pressmark "816-1894".