Psalter


Description

Title
Psalter
Published / Created
ca. 1325
Publication Place
England
Abstract
Manuscript on parchment of a sumptuously illuminated and exceptionally well preserved manuscript of East Anglian origin.
Description
Binding: Sixteenth century, perhaps at Oxford. Caught-up sewing on twelve tawed, slit strap supports, only four of them laced into beech boards, the others cut off at the edges of the spine. The spine is square and the bands prominent and defined. Covered in dark brown calf, blind-tooled with two concentric frames of medallion heads and arabesques, with thistles in the outer corners of the inner panel and an ornament with a cherub's head on it in the center. Nails for catches but no marks of them on the leather, stubs of two straps on the upper board.
Eight of the original ten historiated initials survive. The initials are pink and blue with white filigree and dots on f. 7r incorporating intertwining leaves in pink, blue, green and orange; the figures predominantly orange, and purple with some pink, blue and green, on elaborately tooled gold, set against square grounds, quartered blue and red, with diapering. Each initial with a lavishly ornamented full border incorporating spiraling foliage, large oak leaves, flowers, knots, grotesques, and quatrefoils framing additional figures. 2-line initials for Psalms, pink and/or blue, with white filigree and dots, filled with spiraling ivy, large leaves and dots, blue, green and orange, occasionally a fleur-de-lis, flower, or diaper pattern, on gold, against pink and blue grounds, with white filigree and dots, most connected to bar borders, pink, blue, orange and gold with floral, ivy and grotesque terminals. 1-line initials for verses, gold, thickly edged in black, against irregular pink and blue grounds with white filigree and dots. Many varied line fillers in red and blue.
Lower right corners of ff. 42 and 85 excised.
Script: Written in fine gothic bookhand.
Extent
ff. ii + 124 + ii : parchment ; 348 x 227 (263 x 162) mm.
Extent of Digitization
Completely digitized
Language
Latin

Collection Information

Call Number
Beinecke MS 417

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Format
mixed material
Genre
Calendars
Hand coloring
Historiated initials
Illuminated manuscripts
Illustrations
Psalters
Resource Type
Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name)
Cluniacs
Cluny (Benedictine abbey)
Majolus, Saint, Abbot of Cluny, ca. 906-994
Odilo, Saint, Abbot of Cluny, 962-1048 or 9
Subject (Topic)
Litanies

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Citation
Psalter. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. and Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 417.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
9747183
OID
2008130
More Information
https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.ms417.htm

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