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Psalter (Gallican) with glosses from the Glossa Ordinaria
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, i modern parchment flyleaf + 166 fols. + i modern parchment flyleaf, 150 x 248 mm (138 x 175 mm, main text 59 x 175 mm), 19 long lines of main text, written above top line, ruled in hard point
BINDING: nineteenth century, half leather and marbled paper over pasteboards
SECUNDO FOLIO: quare fremuerunt (fol. 3r)
CONTENTS:
fols. 1r-2r Preface to the Psalms, beginning Ebraice liber est intulatur liber ymnorum (Stegmüller 1950-1980, nos. 9794, 9848, 10474)
fols. 2r-156r Psalms 1-150 with glosses excerpted from the Glossa Ordinaria
fols. 156v-166r Canticles
fol. 166v Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae, excerpt from Book V, par. 6, 15-25 (thirteenth-century addition)
SCRIPT: Late Caroline minuscule
DECORATION:
Historiated initial in red penwork with foliage terminal and blue background: fol. 102v Psalm 109, [D, 5 ll.] Bust of a man.
ORNAMENTATION:
Zoomorphic inhabited initial in red, blue, green and beige on a bright blue and red ground, incorporating a dragon, beast head and gold interlace terminals, and a man clambering within foliage coils: fol. 2r Psalm 1, [B, 14 ll.]; red penwork initial containing a beast head and griffin: fol. 65r Psalm 68, [S, 4 ll.]; red or blue penwork initials [2-3 ll.], the larger ones marking the eightfold liturgical divisions of the Psalter, but also highlighted are Psalms 21, 33, 41, 50; red and blue display script.
History note: Guglielmo Libri (1802-1869); his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 28 March 1859, lot 841; Thomas Bateman (1821-1861); to his son and heir, Thomas William Bateman; his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 25 May 1893, lot 1411; Frank McClean (1836-1904); his bequest, 1904.
Bequeathed by Frank McClean
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1904) by McClean, Frank
12th Century
Production date:
circa
AD 1125
Support
composed of
parchment
Text
Height 138 mm
Width 175 mm
Page
Height 150 mm
Width 248 mm
Main Text
Height 59 mm
Width 175 mm
Penwork
Egg tempura
Illumination
Accession number: MS McClean 33
Primary reference Number: 207637
Project ID: 798
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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