Psalter (fragment).

Description

Title: Psalter (fragment).
Published / Created: [1200-1299]
Publication Place: England,
Abstract: Manuscript fragment from an illuminated Psalter. The first leaf contains Psalm 47: 12-45 through Psalm 48:16; the second contains Psalm 53:5 through 54:13 (Vulgate numbering).
Description: Decoration: Two larger illuminated initials with birds perched on them. Smaller initials alternating between gilt with green penwork and blue with red penwork. Decorated line fillers, red and blue penwork, gilt.
Layout: single columns of 20 lines.
Script: gothic book hand.
Whitby Abbey; Lt.-Col. Moss. John Grant. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
Extent: 2 l. : parchment ; 240 x 180 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Format: text
Genre: Decorated initials
Manuscripts, Medieval--England--13th century.
Marginalia
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Geographic): Whitby (England)
Subject (Name): Whitby Abbey.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven.
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library.
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
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 (Fragment). Takamiya MS 80.