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THE INGOLDISTHORPE PSALTER, in Latin and French, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Bruges c.1465] 144 x 104mm. 275 leaves, apparently COMPLETE, final leaf a bifolio from a 14th-century Breviary with one- and two-line initials in blue flourished with red or red flourished with blue, 16 lines in black ink written in a gothic bookhand between two verticals and 17 horizontals ruled in red, justification: 101x 63mm, rubrics in red, some line-endings in blue and red, text capitals touched yellow, one- and two-line initials of blue flourished with red or in red flourished with dark blue, three-line initials of burnished gold with grounds and infills in red and blue with white decoration, ONE SMALL MINIATURE and ELEVEN HISTORIATED INITIALS between seven and five lines high with staves of gold patterned with black on grounds of black patterned with white or staves of black patterned with white on gold grounds, ff.61 and 62 doodles of two mustachioed men (ff.1-8, 105-118 and 272-4 extensive stains, slight water staining to lower outer corner and edge of bottom margin of all folios, some smudging to most illuminated and historiated initials). 17th-century English black panelled calf over wooden boards ruled and stamped in blind, with central crowned thistle (rebacked, extremities rubbed). A TIPTOFT MANUSCRIPT WITH GRISAILLE ILLUMINATION BY WILLEM VRELANT PROVENANCE: 1. The illumination shows the Psalter to have been made in Bruges and southern Netherlandish saints, such as Vedast and Amand (6 February), Gildard and Medard (8 June), Bertin (5 September), Lambert (17 September) and Bavo (1 October), are commemorated in the Calendar. British saints, however, predominate, showing that the book was made for the English market. In March, for instance, are David (1), Chad (2), Edward Martyr (18), Cuthbert (20). The Litany includes Gildard and Medard from the Netherlands and Alban, Swithin and Edith from England. 2. Joan Tiptoft, Lady Ingoldisthorpe (1425-1494), possibly the book's commissioner: Praye ffor the sowle of my Lady Ingoldesthorp appears on f.274v in a 15th- or early 16th-century hand. Joan Tiptoft was born in 1425, the daughter of John, created Lord Tiptoft and then Earl of Warwick, and Joyce, daughter and co-heiress of Edward, Lord Charleton, and Eleanor Holand; in 1435 Tiptoft married Joan to his ward Sir Edmund Ingoldesthorp of Borough Green, Cambridgeshire (d.1456). Lady Ingoldisthorpe was eventual co-heiress to her parents, when her brother, John Tiptoft, second Earl of Worcester, was executed in 1470. In her will, made shortly before her death in 1494, she asked to be buried in Blackfriars, London, where her brother lay (G.E.C., Complete Peerage ; J. Roskell, L. Clark and C. Rawcliffe, The History of Parliament. The House of Commons 1386-1421 , 1992, II, pp.475-477, IV, pp.620-628; J. Wedgwood, The History of Parliament. Biographies of Members of the Commons House 1439-1509 ,1936, p.493; W. Palmer, A History of the Parish of Borough Green , 1939, pp.59-60, 91-92). The second Earl of Worcester, who studied at Padua 1459-1461, had amassed a considerable collection of humanist manuscripts intended for the universities of Oxford and Cambridge to raise the standard of Latin in England ( Duke Humfrey's Library and the Divinity School , Bodleian Library, 1988, pp.70-80). His sister Joan's liking for fine books was met by Bruges, the traditional supplier of illuminated liturgical manuscripts to the English market; the second husband of their elder sister, Philippa, was Edward Grimston, who had been painted in Bruges by Petrus Christus in 1446. 3. Parish church of the Holy Trinity, Much Wenlock, Shropshire, before the Reformation: feasts of St Milburga (23 Feb) and her invention (25 June) Inventio S. Milburge maius duplex in hac ecclesia parochiali Guenloc , f.6v, added to the Calendar; Milburga's cult centred on her relics in the Cluniac Priory at Wenlock, Shropshire. Joan, Lady Ingoldisthorpe, held some of her mother's family lan