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Psalter: MS 35-1950

Object information

Current Location: Gallery 32 (Rothschild)

Titles

Psalter

Categories

Notes

History note: Jehane de Wasiers, nun of the Augustinian Abbey of Prémy near Cambrai; her sixteenth-century ownership inscriptions, A Sr Jehanne de Wasiers Religieuse de Premye au pres de Cambray (pastedown of upper cover); Che sautiere est a lusaige de Sor Jehane de Wasiers et luy a este donne sy on le trove ont luy renche par charite a labay de Premy au pres de Cambray (fol. iv verso); F. J. Malotain de Villerode; his eighteenth-century signature (fol. v recto); acquired by the book-seller, Théophile Belin of Paris from Jean de Longeville of the Château de Lavigny, Jura, who had inherited it from his mother; purchased by Henry Yates Thompson (1838-1928) in February 1912; his bookplate on pastedown of upper cover; his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 3 June 1919, lot 2; purchased by Thomas H. Riches (1856-1935); his bequest, 1935 (received in 1950).

Place(s) associated

  • France ⪼ France

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Riches, Thomas Henry

Project

  • Cambridge Illuminated

Identification numbers

Accession number: MS 35-1950
Primary reference Number: 239404
Project ID: 3552
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Audit data

Created: Friday 15 November 2019 Updated: Monday 17 July 2023 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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