Psalter-Hours (Office of Liège)
ca. 1260-1275
6 1/2 x 5 3/4 in. (16.5 x 14.6 cm)
French artist
France
Object Type:
Manuscript
Medium and Support:
Ink, tempera, gold, on vellum
Credit Line:
Marion Stratton Gould Fund
Accession Number:
1953.68
Location: Currently on view
This manuscript includes a calendar with illuminations of the “labors of the month” and the zodiac; the Psalms; and various prayers and texts to be read at specific hours of the day.
[Gallery label text, June 2013]
Provenance
Leander van Ess (1772-1847), Marburg, Germany (his MS no. 105); purchased from him in 1823 by Sir Thomas Phillips (1792-1872), Cheltenham, England (his MS no. 490); owned by his estate until at least 1938; Vladimir G. Simkhovitch, New York; purchased from him by the Gallery in 1953
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Article Scope: Reproduction only.
Susan Dodge Peters, ed.
Memorial Art Gallery: An Introduction to the Collection.
New York, New York: Memorial Art Gallery in association with Hudson Hills Press, 1988.
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Article Title: A New Year's Greeting.
Article Scope: Article and reproduction.
Memorial Art Gallery.
Gallery Notes.
Rochester, New York: Memorial Art Gallery, 1935-1995.
Volume Number: 20,
Issue Number: 3.
Issue Date: January, 1955.
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Article Scope: Reproduction only.
Rochester Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester Handbook.
Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1961.
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Memorial Art Gallery.
ARTiculate.
Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2000--.
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Article Scope: Article and reproduction.
Peg Weiss, ed.
Medieval Art in Upstate New York.
Syracuse, NY: Everson Museum of Art of Syracuse and Onondaga County , 1974.
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Article Author: Oliver, Judith.
Article Title: The French Gothic Style in Cologne: Manuscripts Before Johannes Von Valkenburg.
Article Scope: Article and reproduction.
Miscellanea Neerlandica.
Leuven, Belgium: Peeters
Issue Date: 1987.
Page Number: 385,
Figure Number: 3
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Article Author: Oliver, Judith.
Article Title: Gothic Manuscript Illumination in the Diocese of Liege (c. 1250 - c. 1330).
Article Scope: Article.
Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts from the Low Countries.
Leuven, Belgium: Peeters
Volume Number: 2
Issue Date: 1988.
Page Number: 161-164
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Article Author: Walters, Barbara R..
Article Title: Introduction to the Mosan Psalters.
Article Scope: Mention.
Barbara R. Walters
and et al.
The Feast of Corpus Christi.
University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006.
Page Number: 432, 442
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Judith H. Oliver.
The Lambert-le-Bègue Psalters: A Study in Thirteenth-Century Mosan Illumination.
New York, NY: Columbia University, 1976.
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Article Scope: Entry and reproduction.
Judith H. Oliver.
Gothic Manuscript Illumination in the Diocese of Liege (c. 1250-c.1330).
Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters, 1988.
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