A psalter and hours executed before 1270 for a lady connected with St. Louis, probably his sister Isabelle of France, founder of the Abbey of Longchamp :
now in the collection of Henry Yates Thompson /
described by S.C. Cockerell in relation to the companion psalter of St. Louis in Paris ; with photogravures of all the miniatures by Emery Walker.

Description

Main Author

Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962.

Related Names

Walker, Emery, 1851-1933.
Thompson, Henry Yates, 1838-1928.

Language(s)

English

Published

London : Chiswick Press, 1905.

Subjects

Isabella psalter.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Gothic > Illumination of books and manuscripts, Gothic / France.

Note

For a more recent discussion of the ms. and different identification of the Isabella for whom it was made, cf. Manuscript painting in Paris during the reign of Saint Louis / Robert Branner. c1977.
The Isabella psalter is now in Cambridge University (Ms. Fitzwilliam 300).
Half title: The psalter and hours of Isabelle of France.

Physical Description

36 p., xxv leaves of plates : facsims. ; 29 x 37 cm.

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