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Psalter
Binder: Proctor, Robert
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, i parchment flyleaf glued to modern paper + 137 fols. + i parchment flyleaf glued to modern paper, 154 x 128 (125 x 103) mm, 19 long lines, ruled in black ink, written below top line, leaves lost between fols. 133 – 134.
BINDING: 1995, alum-tawed skin over cushioned wooden boards, by Robert Proctor, Fitzwilliam Museum; previous binding preserved: contemporary, alum-tawed skin over cushioned wooden boards, sewn on three supports, traces of four bosses on each cover, remains of one strap on upper cover.
CONTENTS: fol. 1r Easter table (addition); fols. 1v – 133r Psalter, Gallican, with Canticles, Te Deum, and Quicumque vult; fols. 133v – 136v Litany (incomplete) with collects; fol. 137r – 137v Hours of the Virgin (beginning of Matins only).
ORNAMENTATION: Full-page framed initials with foliage infill on gold, green and red grounds for Psalms 1 and 101 (fols. 1v, 85v); identical initials including dragons [9 – 19 ll.] for Psalms 38, 51, 52, 68, 80, 97, 109 (fols. 35r, 45r, 46r, 58r, 71v, 83r, 97r), Hours of the Virgin (fol. 137r), and Canticle of Isaiah (fol. 123r); alternate gold and blue initials [4 – 7 ll.] with blue or red pen-flourishing for remaining Psalms, Canticles, and Litany; blue, red and tan one-line verse initials.
History note: Howell Wills (1854 – 1901), his manuscript A.III.94 (label on verso of front flyleaf); purchased for the Museum at his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 11-17 July 1894, lot 1461.
Method of acquisition: Bought (1894) by Wills, Howell
13th Century, Early#
Circa
1200
CE
-
Circa
1225
CE
Support
composed of
parchment
Text
Height 125 mm
Width 103 mm
Page
Height 154 mm
Width 128 mm
Accession number: MS 238
Primary reference Number: 169751
Project ID: 95
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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