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The Metamorphoses of a Late Fifteenth-Century Psalter (Harl. MS. 1892)

The Metamorphoses of a Late Fifteenth-Century Psalter (Harl. MS. 1892)

Yvard, Catherine

The Electronic British Library Journal (2011)

Abstract

This article examines in detail a psalter for the use of Sarum executed in Rouen c. 1490-1500, to which a series of unexpected additions have been made. These include sections painted in the style of the Netherlandish Dark Eyes Masters and added leaves in various hands copied after engravings by Martin Schongauer. The original content of the manuscript has thus been enhanced and re-shaped through a process of customization and recycling, which was not uncommon practice in England at the time, as it can also be observed in the so-called Hours of the Earls of Ormond (Harl. 2887).

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