Book of Hours or Psalter[?]

Description

Title: Book of Hours or Psalter[?]
Published / Created: s. XIII/XIV
Publication Place: England
Description: Abundant decoration consisting of line-fillers in gold and paint containing animal and hybrid bodies and ending in human or animal heads; 1- and 2-line initials, the latter ending on f. 1r in borders consisting of a horizontal bar in the upper and lower margin on which grotesques are painted: in the upper margin an animal (its head partly cropped) shooting a bird and in the lower margin a monkey looking at a hybrid.
f. 1r-v //Nam et testimonia tua meditacio mea est ... Et ne auferas de ore meo verbum veritatis usque//[quaque]. Ps. 118 :24-43
On parchment.
Ruled with lead for one column of 19 lines below top line (type 31, 170 x 105 mm). The horizontal ruling is double, lines being traced for the headlines as well as for the baselines.
Written in a narrow Northern Gothica Textualis Formata (Textus Rotundus).
Extent: 1 l.|245 x 170 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Beinecke MS 525.5
Collection Title: The Osborn collection of 12 fragments of illuminated manuscripts from the 14th to the 16th century

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Object ID (OID): 10520819
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.ms525.htm