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(Queen Mary Master) (c. 1310/20): Queen Mary's psalter. Miniatures and drawings by an English artist of the 14th century reproduced from royal MS. 2 B. VII in the British Museum. With introduction by Georg Warner.

 

London, Trustees of the British Museum / Horace Hart, 1912. Folio. [vi] + 94 pp. + 316 collotype plates.

 

Publisher’s half red morocco, cloth sides, top edge gilt, else uncut. A very attractive copy, with no foxing.

 

Provenance: Ulf Cederlöf (1948-2021), chief curator of prints and drawings at the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.

 

Facsimile of the Psalter named for Queen Mary Tudor (1516-1558), daughter of King Henry VIII, but produced centuries earlier, possibly for Isabella of France (1295-1358), Queen of England and consort of Edward II. The manuscript was produced in England, probably in London or East Anglia c. 1310/20, by a single artist now known as the 'Queen Mary Master.'

Queen Mary's psalter

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