Psalter, [circa 1275-1299].

Description

Title: Psalter, [circa 1275-1299].
Contributor: Catholic Church
Published / Created: [circa 1275-1299].
Publication Place: [Flanders]
Abstract: Manuscript, on parchment, in Gothic script, produced in Flanders during the fourth quarter of the thirteenth century.
Description: Binding: dark brown calf skin over pasteboards (sixteenth or seventeenth century).
Decorations include a half-page initial on f. 43r (six other half-page initials have been cut from the manuscript) and illustrations of the labors of the months in the calendar.
On the calendar page for December, St. Thomas of Canterbury's name has been erased from its place, indicating English ownership at least in the sixteenth century.
The back flyleaf has, in two fourteenth century hands, a French song "Une bon chanson ay troue" and a Middle English carol "Mayde and moder, glade thou be."
Extent: 1 v. (157 ff.) 14 cm. x 10 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)
French
Latin

Format: text
Genre: Devotional literature
Hand coloring
Illuminated manuscripts
Illustrations
Marginalia
Psalters
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Catholic Church
Subject (Topic): Catholic Church--Liturgy--Texts
Psalters

Access: Public
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Citation: Psalter. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Orbis Record: 9413768
Object ID (OID): 11394852
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.osborn.a1.htm