Word: psalter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brother John Tikytt (or Tikyll), Prior of the Augustinian Monastery of Wyrkesopp, England, was engaged, about the year 1310, in limning a psalter. He finished 90 pages, with elaborate titles in gold and colors for each psalm, a miniature for each page, and a small painting at the bottom of each column of text. Then after sketching in his decorations for 23 more pages, this skillful illuminator died under circumstances unknown to history...
Last week Brother Tikytt's psalter appeared in Manhattan as a principal item in an auction of the library of the Marquess of Lothian at the American Art Association Anderson Galleries, Inc. Not in two decades, it was claimed, had such an important sale of manuscripts and incunabula occurred...
Bidding on the Tikytt psalter began at $20,000 and rose rapidly to $61,000, for which it was bought by plump little Dr. Abraham S. Wolf Rosenbach of Philadelphia, who usually manages to skim off the cream, of most U. S. book auctions...
...Holy Rosary, instituted in 1883 by Pope Leo XIII. In the Middle Ages, when Mary-churches (Chartres, Rheims, Rouen, Paris, Amiens) were built throughout Europe, when monks and nuns were transcribing Mary-legends, when warriors carried banners of the Blessed Virgin, the Rosary-"Our Lady's Psalter"- made its appearance. Simple folk, illiterates or busy ones could substitute 150 Ave Marias or Pater Nosters for the customary recitation of 150 psalms...
Editorialized the London Times: "[Banker Morgan put England] under a special debt of gratitude. . . . Other Americans have taken treasures away; Mr. Morgan has given." (He gave funds for the British Museum to obtain the Bedford Book of Hours and the Luttrell Psalter...