Binding from Psalter for Cistercian Female Supplicant

Description This binding is not original to the manuscript, but was added in the early 20th century by Léon Gruel. It replaced a previous binding that was described in the Rosenthal collection catalog as brown calfskin and decorated with a monogram "P P L" within a series of four "S"'s struck through with a vertical line.

Provenance Léon Gruel, Paris, early 20th century [2]; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, early 20th century; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931. [1] 1901 dealer catalog 27, no. 74 [2] Bookplate on the front flyleaf inscribed no. 63

Credit Purchased by Henry Walters, after 1902