Two East Anglian Psalters at the Bodleian Library Oxford. The Ormesby Psalter MS Douce 366 / described by S. C. Cockerell. The Bromholm Psalter MS Ashmole 1523 / described by Montague Rhodes James.
Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell (1867-1962)
Category
Books
Date
1926
Materials
Collection
Shaw's Corner, Hertfordshire
NT 3084813
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii, 46 p., [45] leaves of plates : facsims., (4 col.; incl. front.) ; 41 cm. Affixed to first free endpaper: manuscript note on leaf bearing device of University Pitt Club, with description of Butler Priory coats of arms, signed J.M.D. Rendall"; inscribed at head "The Athenaeum / Pall Mall / always finds me / Jn." Provenance: endpaper inscribed "To Charlotte F. Shaw from Sydney C. Cockerell 8 March 1930". Binding: twentieth-century quarter grained calf, with burgundy cloth boards, gold lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell (1867-1962), author Montague Rhodes James, OM (1862-1936), author