Leaf from a Psalter, illuminated manuscript in Latin on vellum, [Southern Netherlands, 13th century]

Property from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Leaf from a Psalter

Illuminated manuscript in Latin on vellum. [Southern Netherlands (Flanders), 13th century (c.1220s–30s)]

Single leaf, c.250×170mm; written in a very fine regular early Gothic bookhand above top line with 23 lines per page (c.165×90mm); the text comprising Psalm 106:8-28; every verse with a gold initial, line-fillers alternately red or blue; paginated in ink 213, 214; stained in the lower fore-edge corner

LITERATURE:

Judith Oliver, Manuscripts Sacred and Secular from the Collections of the Endowment for Biblical Research and Boston University (Boston, 1985), no. 74.

Barbara A Shailor, ‘Otto Ege: Portfolios vs. Leaves’, Manuscripta 53 (2009), 13–27, col. pl. 2a–b.

Scott Gwara, Otto Ege’s Manuscripts (Cayce, SC, 2013), Handlist no. 125 and fig. 64, citing four leaves at three American institutions.

PROVENANCE:

(1) From same manuscript as lot 5 

(2) Possibly the 13th-century Bruges Psalter sold several times in our rooms from 18 March 1912, lot 130, to 11–12 April 1938, lot 304

(3) Otto Ege/Philip Duschnes

4) Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Gallery Purchase, 1940 (1940:355.16)