Psalter.

Description

Title: Psalter.
Contributor: Catholic Church--Liturgy.
Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions.
Thomas, Alan G.--Ownership.
Published / Created: [1475-1499]
Publication Place: England,
Abstract: Manuscript, on parchment, in at least two hands, containing the text of the psalter, preceded by prayers and a calendar, and followed by canticles and a litany. The calendar is very detailed and includes dates of various English battles, the latest of which is the battle of Dunkirk (1483).
Description: Binding: contemporary binding of reversed skin over bevelled wooden boards; sewn on five double bands. Remains of clasps on the front board.
Decoration: Rubricated. Small initials throughout in red and blue with contrasting penwork; seven large illuminated initials with two-sided borders; large illuminated initial on the first leaf of the text of the Psalter.
Formerly owned by Alan G. Thomas. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
In Latin; a few notes in the calendar in Middle English.
Layout: single columns of 21 lines.
Note concerning the probable date of the volume in Latin, in a later hand (9v.)
Script: rounded gothic liturgical script.
Extent: 207 l. : parchment ; 224 x 160 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)
Latin

Format: text
Genre: Decorated initials
Manuscripts, Medieval--England--15th century.
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Catholic Church--Liturgy.
Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions.
Thomas, Alan G.--Ownership.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven.
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Psalters.
Psalters--England--Early works to 1800.

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Citation: A handlist of western Medieval manuscripts in the Takamiya collection / Toshiyuki Takamiya, in The Medieval book: glosses from friends & colleagues of Christopher de Hamel, ed. by Richard Linenthal, James Marrow and William Noel. 't Goy-Houten: Hes & De Graff, 2010, pp. 421-437.
Psalter. Takamiya MS 47.