- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1499]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1194
- Image Count:
- 174
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, containing an incomplete Psalter with six illuminated initials. Supposedly created and used by a German nun in the last half of the fifteenth century, it has been considered an example of Nonnenarbeiten.
- Description:
- Binding: modern., Decoration: Rubricated. Some banners with texts in margins. Six illuminated initials with gold or silver decoration: decorated silver initial (3v); birds, silver decoration (14v); Jonah, gold decoration (24v); monk with textual banner, gold decoration (35v); Virgin Mary and child, textual banner, gold decoration (43r); animal blowing instrument, silver decoration (50v); trumpeter, textual banner, gold decoration (80v)., Engraved portrait bookplate? on front pastedown of Gerardus, dux Juliæ et Montium, Comes Ravensburgæ, Fundator ordinis anno 1444., Layout: single columns of 14 lines., and Script: Gothic book hand.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., Nuns as artists--Germany., Nuns--Books and reading--Germany., and Psalters.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Psalter (incomplete).
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