Leaf from a Choir Psalter
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, 450 x 350 mm (360 x 247 mm), two musical staves ruled in red ink, 14-17 lines of text, ruled in pale brown ink.
CONTENTS: recto Ps. 97, Cantate domino, on verso, Ps. 98 1-5, Dominus regnavit …dominum deum; the initial introduces Ps. 97 for Matins of Saturday.
DECORATION: Historiated initial in graded pink, green and liquid gold on square grounds, extending to form partial foliate borders with spray-work and fruit and flower motifs: [C, 6 ll.] Four singers around a lectern.
ORNAMENTATION: verso Blue penwork initials [2 ll.] with extensive red pen flourishing using voided foliate motifs.
Alternate red and blue one-line verse initials with purple or red pen flourishing; text immediately following the historiated initials and the verse initials is written in display script, flourished in black filled with yellow wash.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
15th Century, third quarter#
Circa
1450
CE
-
Circa
1475
CE
Support composed of parchment
Accession number: Marlay Cutting It. 76
Primary reference Number: 181277
Project ID: 1416
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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