Work of Art Record 49285

Record No

49285

Collection

The Gabriel Millet Collection

Inventory Number

Millet No.: 1.P449.2

Location

Italy, Palermo: Biblioteca Nazionale

Date

second half 12c.

Subject Headings

Peter the Apostle

Notes

New Testament-Psalter; The manuscript is traditionally associated with Costanza, wife of Peter of Aragon (1262-1302), but it may have belonged to an earlier Costanza. The manuscript has been misbound and the first nine quires are out of order. Two detached leaves, one with bust of Evangelist John at beginning of I John, and the other with Canticle: Moses II, are now in Philadelphia, Free Library, Lewis E 353.

Citations

Carr, A., Byzantine Illumination, 1150-1250 (1987), cat. 92; pp. 272-274

Palermo, Real Albergo dei Poveri, Federico e la Sicilia: Dalla terra alla corona, II. Arti figurative e arti suntuarie (1995), cat. 89; pp. 327-330; 5 color figs.

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