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Record Id:

032-002028644

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002028644

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000050.0x0003bf

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100165144628.0x000001

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Add MS 18144

Title:

Psalter

Scope & Content:

Illuminated Psalter with a Calendar, Canticles and Litanies.

ff. 2v-8r: Calendar, imperfect due to the loss of leaves.

ff. 17r-154r: Psalter, imperfect due to the loss of leaves.

ff. 154r-166v: Canticles.

ff. 166v: Litanies, ends imperfectly.

Decoration:

11 full-page framed miniatures in gold and colours: f. 8v: the Annunciation; f. 9r: the Nativity; f. 11r: the Baptism of Christ; f. 12v: the Entry into Jerusalem; f. 13r: the Last Supper; f. 14v: the Crucifixion; f. 15r: Christ in Majesty; f. 40v: the Temptation; f. 67v: the Resurrection; f. 83v: Pentecost; f. 59v: the Ascension.

10 calendar pages in gold and colours, with architectural frames each containing a sign of the Zodiac, an apostle and a labour of the month: ff. 2v-6v, 8r-9r.

Large framed initials, in gold and colours with foliate and sometimes zoomorphic ornament: ff. 41r, 54r, 66r, 68, 83v 100r, 112v, 123v (Psalms 26, 38, 51, 52, 68, 80, 101, 109). Originally, these initials probably marked a ten-fold division of the Psalms: the first Psalm of Matins for each day of the week (1, 26, 38, 52, 68, 80, 97), the first Psalm for Sunday Vespers (109) and the Psalms of the tripartite division (1, 51 and 101), however the leaves that would have contained the openings of Psalms 1 and 97 have been removed.

3-line initials at the opening of every Psalm and Canticle, in gold outlined in red with pen-work in red and blue.

Small text initials in red throughout.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002028644

Is part of:

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Hierarchy:

032-002028644

Container:

not applicable

Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

A parchment codex

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Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1200

End Date:

1224

Date Range:

1st quarter of the 13th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 250 x 180 mm (text space: 185 x 110 mm).

Foliation: ff. 168 (foliation starts at f. 2; ff. 7, 10, 16, 19, 33, 64, 74, 78, 94, 96, 102, 111, 119, 137 are modern parchment inserts; + 1 unfoliated modern flyleaf at the beginning and 3 unfoliated modern parchment flyleaves at the end).

Collation: Unclear. Numerous leaves excised leaving visible stubs after ff. 6, 9, 15, 18, 32, 63, 73, 77, 93, 95, 101, 110, 118, 136, 168, mostly replaced with modern parchment leaves.

Script: Gothic, written above top line.

Binding: Pre-1600. Red leather covers over wooden boards with leather straps and animal-headed metalwork clasps (one of two leather straps and clasp missing).

Custodial History:

Origin: Germany, East.

Hildesheim, Germany: a document in a 14th-century hand, used as a pastedown to the front board, refers to the diocese of Hildesheim: 'Malerten clericus Hildens dioc publicus Imperiali Auctoritate Notarius' (f. 1).

Thomas and William Boone (fl. 1815-1870), antiquarian booksellers, London: purchased from them by the British Museum, as recorded in the inscription ‘Purchased of Mess. Boone 11 May 1850’ (f. 2r).

Publications:

The British Museum Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts, 1848-1853 (London: British Museum, 1868), p. 81.

Walter De Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Illustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster and Sons, 1879), p. 7.

Arthur Haseloff, Eine Thüringisch-Sächsische Malerschule des 13. Jahrhunderts (Strasbourg: J.H.E. Heitz, 1897), pp. 353-359, plates 47-48.

Helmut Engelhart, Die Würzburger Buchmalerei im Hohen Mittelalter: Untersuchungen zu einer Gruppe Illuminierter Handschriften aus der Werkstatt der Würzburger Dominikanerbibel von 1246, 2 vols, Quellen und Forschungen zur Geschichte des Bistums und Hochstifts Würzburg, 34 (Wurzburg: Kommissionsverlag F. Schöningh, 1987), I, p. 119, II, plate 239.

Alfred Büchler, 'Zu den Psalmillustrationen der Haseloff-Schule II. Psalter mit eklektischen Programmen', Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, 54. H. 2 (1991), 145-80 (pp. 146, 168-69).

Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in The British Library (London: British Library, 1997), pl. 49.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)