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Item #43152 The Tickhill Psalter and Related Manuscripts. A School of Manuscript Illumination in England during the early Fourteenth Century. Donald Drew Egbert.
The Tickhill Psalter and Related Manuscripts. A School of Manuscript Illumination in England during the early Fourteenth Century
The Tickhill Psalter and Related Manuscripts. A School of Manuscript Illumination in England during the early Fourteenth Century
The Tickhill Psalter and Related Manuscripts. A School of Manuscript Illumination in England during the early Fourteenth Century
The Tickhill Psalter and Related Manuscripts. A School of Manuscript Illumination in England during the early Fourteenth Century
The Tickhill Psalter and Related Manuscripts. A School of Manuscript Illumination in England during the early Fourteenth Century
The Tickhill Psalter and Related Manuscripts. A School of Manuscript Illumination in England during the early Fourteenth Century
The Tickhill Psalter and Related Manuscripts. A School of Manuscript Illumination in England during the early Fourteenth Century

The Tickhill Psalter and Related Manuscripts. A School of Manuscript Illumination in England during the early Fourteenth Century

Princeton, NJ. The New York Public Library and The Department of Art and Archaeology of Princeton University, 1940. Ex-Library First limited edition. Hardcover. 318/400 Elephant Folio. xi, 232 (1), cxii (i) plates. Original black clothe with gilt-stamped vignette on cover and gilt lettering on spine. Color frontispiece with printed tissue guard. Printer's device on title page. The Tickhill Psalter is an early 14th Century illuminated manuscript "almost entirely devoted to episodes of the life of [King] David... also the most significant example of a group of some eight richly illuminated manuscripts produced at the same general time, mostly in the same region of England..." It is attributed to prior John de Tickhill from the village Tickhill in the metropolitan county South Yorkshire in England and now kept in the New York Public Library.

Four hundred copies of this book were printed at the New York Public Library on all-rag paper manufactured by the Hurlbut Paper Company of South Lee, Massachusetts. The monochrome collotype plates were made by the Meridian Gravure Company of Meriden, Connecticut, and the colored frontispiece by Arthur Jaffé, Inc., of New York City. The type used for the text is Caslon Old Face. The related manuscripts described and reproduced in this book are The Psalter of Queen Elizabeth, The Grey-Fitzpayn Hours, The Welles Apocalypse, The Bardolf-Vaux Psalter, The Guisborough Breviary, A Part of the Ormesby Psalter, and The Brewes-Norwich Commentaries on the Liber Sextus. Contains appendices for all eight manuscripts and index at rear of text. Illustrated with 112 monochrome collotype plates at rear.
Binding with very light wear along edges, slight bump at lower right corner and library barcode at upper left corner of front cover. Library plate on inside front cover. Penciled numbers on title page and verso. Library sticker and numerical stamp on inside back cover. Some light staining along gutters front and back. Binding in overall very good, interior in near fine condition. vg to near fine. Item #43152

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