Following on from a
recent post, I have realised that lot 51 in the Boerner catalogue, later lot 32 in the Lanna-Prag catalogue, was later owned by Edouard Kann and Robert Lehman, and is now in The Met, NYC, where all this provenance is recorded.
But, to judge by their online description, The Met is apparently unaware that another of its leaves was also in the Boerner auction, as lot 17, where it was attributed to 13th-century France:
Like the
Psalter leaf now at Harvard, it was apparently unsold in the auction, and re-offered by Boerner in a fixed-price catalogue the following year:
It was given to The Met in 1939 by Sarah Gibbs Thompson Pell, and is now attributed to Swabia, c.1400:
The priest's scroll reads:
"Prespiter Albert(us) hui(us) libri tibi munus. | Dat pia virgo p(re)ces p(ro) me peto ferte sorores"
And the nun's reads "Mater mis(eri)c(or)die miserere mei. Liugardi."
The Met description and a web-search suggest that the leaf is unpublished, apart from the Boerner catalogues, which is surprising for such an interesting and unusual miniature.
Michael Gullick has contacted me to say that the second Met leaf above "was noticed in print in 'H. B. Wehle, 'The Bequest of Sarah Gibbs Thomson Pell' in Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 35 (1940) on p. 93", which I have yet to consult, but shows that it is not entirely unpublished.
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