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Leaf from a Psalter(?): Annunciation (recto); Nativity (verso)

early 1200s
ink and tempera on parchment
Sheet: 19 x 15 cm (7 1/2 x 5 7/8 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1951.447
Location: not on view
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Description

Psalters were commonly used in monasteries and convents during the Middle Ages; the exact origin of this detached psalter leaf, however, is unclear. Stylistically it relates to a small number of manuscripts produced at Prüfening Abbey near Regensburg and to other examples associated with scriptoria at Augsburg from the early 1200s. Though its immediate source remains obscure, it is certainly South German.
Leaf from a Psalter(?): Annunciation (recto); Nativity (verso)

Leaf from a Psalter(?): Annunciation (recto); Nativity (verso)

early 1200s

Germany, Bavaria (possibly Prufening or Augsburg), 13th century

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