[Psalterium]
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Type of record: Archive
Title: [Psalterium]
Other titles: Psalter (Leeds University Library. Brotherton Collection MS 24); Bible
Classmark: BC MS 24
Publication city: [Low Countries]
Date(s): [ca. 1450-1500]
Language: Dutch
Size and medium: 1 v. (i, 287, i leaves) (2 columns, 24-26 lines; frame ruled)
Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/vwyn6ts5
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/372702
Collection group(s): Medieval Manuscripts
Description
Decoration: initials in gold on halved blue and red grounds patterned with white penwork. The initials extend into bar borders, usually along one side only, with further decoration in the margings in designs of flowers, leaves, beasts, and simple gold balls.
Written in textualis semi-quadrata; some minims have applied feet, but most are rounded off.
Principal contents: ff. 2r-10v Calendar; ff. 14r-180r Psalter; ff. 180r-194v Six ferial canticles; ff. 194v-207r Litany; ff. 207r-272r Communion of Saints; ff. 272v-287r Hymns.
From the library of Lord Brotherton.
See for a fuller description: N. R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983) pp. 58-60.
Features
Bindings
Bound in contemporary calf bearing a pattern of fillets, over wooden boards. One of the two metal clasps survives. Small, red and green balls are attached to the fore-edge to mark divisions of the text.
Provenance
Ker notes a 15/16th-century inscription 'totten nonnen te nazareth int geyn' on f. 1v to suggest ownership by the Augustinian canonesses at Oudegein, near Jutfaas, in the province of Utrecht. On f. 1r is a marking 'N° 8' in an 18th-century (?) hand.
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