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Add MS 17392
- Record Id:
- 032-002027639
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002027639
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000050.0x00008e
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100055979356.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 17392
- Title:
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Psalter with gloss in Latin
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-229v: Psalter, with interlinear and marginal glosses embedding extracts from the Parva glossatura (The Small Gloss) of Anselm of Laon (b. 1050, d. 1117) and his school; followed by Canticles (ff. 152r-229v), beginning of Psalms: 'Beatus vir qui non abiit in consilio impiorum'; beginning of the glosses: 'Hic ostenditur immunis ab omni malo [...] Psalmus iste bipartitus est: de beato vire et ultionibus impiorum agens'.
ff. 230r-231r: A series of glosses on the Psalms.
Decoration:
Large historiated or decorated initials at the ten-fold divisions of the Psalms: Psalm 1, of David and Christ (f. 1r); Psalm 26, excised (f. 38r); Psalm 38 (f. 60v); Psalm 51, of David and Goliath (f. 81r); Psalm 52 (f. 82r); 68 (f. 104r); Psalm 80 (f. 129v); Psalm 97 (f. 152r); Psalm 101 (f. 155r) and at the beginning of the Canticles (f. 220r). Large initials with penwork decoration in yellow, red, green, or blue. Display capitals in yellow, red or blue, some with penwork decoration. Small initials in blue, green, or red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002027639
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002027639
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100055979356.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1150
- End Date:
- 1174
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 260 x 175 mm (text space: 160 x 150 mm, in 3 columns).
Foliation: ff. 231 ( + 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + at the end).
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
Added, late 12th century, 'incipit psalterium' (f. 231v).
Added, 18th century, chant with musical notations in the margin (f. 99v).
Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller. Purchased by the British Museum from him, 8 July 1848 for £6.16.6: inscripted (f. [iii] verso).
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the manuscripts of the British Museum in the years 1848-1853 (London: the British Museum, 1868), p. 12.
Howard Helsinger, 'Images on the Beatus Page of some Medieval Psalters', Art Bulletin, 53 (1971), 161-76 (p. 176).
Walter Cahn, 'St. Albans and the Channel Style in England', in The Year 1200: A Symposium (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975), 187-230 (p. 203 n. 24).
Walter Cahn, Studies in Medieval Art and Interpretation (London: Pindar Press, 2000), p. 118.
Scot McKendrick and Kathleen Doyle, Bible Manuscripts: 1400 Years of Scribes and Scripture (London: British Library, 2007), p. 97, fig. 84.
Kathleen Doyle and Charlotte Denoël, Medieval Illumination: Manuscript Art in England and France 700-1200 (London: British Library, 2018), also published as Enluminures Médiévales: Chefs-d'oeuvre de la Bibliothèque nationale de France et de la British Library, 700-1200 (Paris : BnF Éditions, 2018), pp. 18, 164.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.