Art Institute of Chicago

Psalter

Unrecorded artist

1280/95 (20th century binding)

Attribution

Belgian (Ghent or Bruges)

Medium

Manuscript with 214 folios, 17 miniatures, ten historiated initials and two full page miniatures, with borders and initial letters in tempera and gold leaf, text pages ruled in graphite with Latin littera textualis formata inscriptions in black inks, on parchment, bound in modern red velvet over cardboard, with gilded and trimmed edges

Physical dimensions

Vellum: 13 × 11 cm (5 1/8 × 4 3/8 in.)

Credit line

Prints and Drawings Sundry Fund