Binding from Franciscan Liturgical Psalter

Description Provenance Credit

Description This binding is not orginal to its manuscript, but rather it was created and added to the manuscript in the 16th century in Flanders.

Provenance [Made for Franciscan use in Cologne, late thirteenth century, Ripuarisch dialect points to Cologne region]; Augustinian nuns of St. Cecilia, Cologne, late 15th or 16th century; Susanna Koull, 17th century; L.S. Olschki [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, by purchase [L.S. Olschiki, no. 24][date of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters

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Creator

Flemish (Binder)

Period

16th century

Medium

beech boards covered in brown calf leather, blind-tooled Renaissance motifs with corner and edges of binding restored, one sixteenth-century brass clasp remaining and red, white and blue parchment Turk head fore-edge markers
(Manuscripts & Rare Books)

Accession Number

W.111.binding

Measurements

H: 5 1/16 × W: 3 13/16 in. (12.9 × 9.7 cm)

Geographies

Germany (Place of Origin)
Flanders (Place of Binding)

Location Within Museum

Not On View

Initial D with Woman Holding an Ointment Jar; Hybrid Creature in Margins	Title
late 13th century	Period
W.111.24R	Accession

Initial D with David Pointing to His Eye Before the Face of God; Dog in Margins	Title
late 13th century	Period
W.111.69R	Accession

Initial D with Pilgrim Below the Face of God; Hybrid Animal in Margins	Title
late 13th century	Period
W.111.93R	Accession

Initial Q with David Enthroned with Sword and Orb; Owl and Man Blowing Horn in Margins	Title
late 13th century	Period
W.111.108V	Accession

Initial D with Fool Holding a Club and Eating a Loaf of Bread; Rooster in Margins	Title
late 13th century	Period
W.111.113V	Accession