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Ferial Psalter

about 1300–50
Place of ManufactureSpain
Medium/TechniqueTempera and ink with gold on parchment; bindings of pigskin over boards with paper pastedowns
DimensionsOverall (page dimensions): 37.2 x 26.2 cm (14 5/8 x 10 5/16 in.)
Credit LineDenman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession number17.518
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsBooks and manuscripts
Collections
ProvenanceBy 1913, with Ludwig Rosenthal; by 1913, sold by Ludwig Rosenthal to Dr. Denman Waldo Ross (1853-1935), Cambridge, MA [see note 1]; 1917, gift of Dr. Denman Waldo Ross. (Accession date: February 15, 1917)

NOTES:
[1] From 1913 until it was accessioned, this manuscript was on loan to the MFA from Dr. Denman Waldo Ross.
Full view, open position
Ludolf von Sachsen
about 1450–75
Detail: folio 39, recto
Saint Augustine
mid-13th century
Book of Hours (variant of Use of Paris, and Use of Rome)
probably 1275–1300 (France), with additions in 1350–1400 (Italy)
View: f.1
16th century with 18th–century A.D.ditions
Detail: folio 1, verso
late 13th century
Folios 133v-134r, historiated initial with Christ emerging from the tomb
Liberale da Verona
about 1450–75