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Object Details
Title:
Two Miniatures from a Psalter
Artist/Maker:
Unknown
Culture:
German
Place:
Würzburg, Germany (Place Created)
Date:
about 1240
Medium:
Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment
Object Number:
Ms. 4 (84.ML.84)
Dimensions:
Leaf: 17.7 × 13.6 cm (6 15/16 × 5 3/8 in.)
Object Description
In the 1200s, psalters, which contain the psalms attributed to King
Provenance
Provenance
1586
Elizabeth Kögl, German,
Source: Faint inscription dated 1586 on verso, legible under ultraviolet light reads: Die Erdierdig müetter Elisabet/ köglin hat dissen psalter an der...Anno 1586 n : o : +
before 1837/1839
Private Collection (Munich, Germany), sold to James Dennistoun, 1837/1839.
1837/1839 - 1855
James Dennistoun, Scottish, 1803 - 1855, by liberal provision in his trust-deed, Mr. Dennistoun provided for the whole of his manuscript collections being placed in the hands of his friend, Mark Napier, Esq., 1855.
Source: Dennistoun, James Wallis, James Irving, and Irving, Joseph. Some Account of the Family of Dennistoun of Dennistoun and Colgrain. Glasgow: For Private Circulation, 1906.
1855 - before 1870
Mark Napier, Scottish, 1798 - 1879, by inheritance to the grandaughter of James Dennistoun, Isabella (Dennistoun) Henson, wife of Hensley Henson, Bishop of Durham, after 1870.
Source: Dennistoun, James Wallis, James Irving, and Irving, Joseph. Some Account of the Family of Dennistoun of Dennistoun and Colgrain. Glasgow: For Private Circulation, 1906.
after 1870 - 1930
Isabelle Caroline Henson, Scottish, 1870 - 1949, sold to Lord Kenneth McKenzie Clark, 1930.
1930 - 1984
Lord Kenneth McKenzie Clark, British, 1903 - 1983 [sold, Lord Clark of Saltwood sale, Sotheby's, London, July 3, 1984, lot 77, to H.P. Kraus]
1984
Hans P. Kraus, Sr., American, born Austria, 1907 - 1988, sold to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1984.
Provenance Remarks: Prior to 1855 James Dennistoun traveled to Italy and assembled a series of illuminated manuscripts into an album, some of which are also apart of the Getty Collection. Though it is not known the extent of the size of the album, it is well documented that the majority of the manuscripts of his collection became part of the parcels handed to his friend, Mark Napier as part of the liberal provision in his trust-deed. As Napier was empowered to go over, select, and arrange the different objects of his collection, the manuscripts were then properly bound, indexed, and catalogued before being presented in a series of eleven volumes to the Faculty of Advocates on behalf of Dennistoun. As of 2020 the provenance reflects Napier retaining ownership of the manuscript until after 1870.
Bibliography
Bibliography
Dennistoun, James Wallis, James Irving, and Irving, Joseph. Some Account of the Family of Dennistoun of Dennistoun and Colgrain. Glasgow: For Private Circulation, 1906, pp. 45-46.
A Catalogue of an Extensive Library, Containing nearly 3000 Volumes of Standard Works in every Department of Literature [..] (Newcastle: J. Blackwell and Company, 1848), p. 46.
Swarzenski, Hanns. "Recent Literature, Chiefly Periodical, on Medieval Minor Arts: Pre-Carolingian, Carolingian, and Ottonian Periods." Art Bulletin 24, no. 3 (1942), pp. 297-98.
Brigstocke, Hugh. “James Dennistoun’s Second European Tour, 1836-1839.” The Connoisseur 184 (December 1973), p. 248, fig. 11, ill.
Sotheby's, London. Paintings and Works of Art From the Collections of the Late Lord Clark of Saltwood. July 3, 1984, lot 77, ill.
"Acquisitions/1984." The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 13 (1985), pp. 201-2, no. 123, figs. 123a-123b.
Engelhart, Helmut. Die Würzburger Buchmalerei im hohen Mittelalter. Quellen und Forschungen zur Geschichte des Bistums und Hochstifts Würzburg 34. 2 vols (Würzburg: Kommissionsverlag Ferdinand Schöningh Würzburg, 1987), vol. I pp. 98-151, 346-351, vol. II pl. 72.
Orsini, Jacqueline. Mary: Images of the Holy Mother (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2000), pl. 9.
Kren, Thomas. Illuminated Manuscripts of Germany and Central Europe in the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009), pp. 22-23, 67-69, ill.
Grosse Bibliotheken der Welt: Schätze des J. Paul Getty Museums, Los Angeles (Gütersloh and Munich: Faksimile Verlag, 2009), p. 14.
Scott, Margaret. Fashion in the Middle Ages (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011), pp. 13, 14-15, fig. 2.