The Luttrell psalter : two plates in colour and one hundred and eighty-three in monochrome from the Additional manuscript 42130 in the British Museum : with introduction by Eric George Millar, Assistant Keeper in the Department of Manuscripts
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Physical description:
[10], 61, [3] pages, [99] leaves of plates (2 folded) : illustrations, facsimiles ; 46 cm
Type:
Facsimiles
Illustrated works
Place:
England
Date:
1932
Notes:
Half-title.
Title printed in red and black.
Leaves selected for their decoration; 183 facsmiles on 97 leaves.
Continuous reproduced text is limited to Psalms, LXXVIII, 62-CXIX, 36 in Latin Vulgate (Gallican) version.
A manuscript of the East Anglian school, written and illuminated about 1340 for Sir Geoffrey Louterell, or Luttrell, of Irnham in Lincolnshire.
"The present publication, while not 'complete' in the sense of reproducing the manuscript from cover to cover, may nevertheless claim to be virtually so; it contains on the scale of the original everything that is of interest in the volume, while the six gatherings which constitute the most important port of the book (ff. 145-214b) are reproduced in their entirety."--Introduction.
Colophon: Letterpress and collotypes printed in Great Britain at the University Press, Oxford by John Johnson, printer to the University.
"Index of the principal subjects illustrated in the ms.": pages [59]-61 (1st group).
Topic:
Illumination of books and manuscripts, English Search this
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval Search this
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) Search this
