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Add MS 89428
- Record Id:
- 032-003711338
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003711338
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100109390526.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100161512433.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 89428
- Title:
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A Psalter (the 'Lucas Psalter')
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 6r-11v: a calendar, with English saints;
ff. 12r-181r: the Psalter portion of a Breviary, possibly Use of Sarum, with hymns and antiphons;
ff. 181r-188r: the Litany, with English saints;
f. 188v: added liturgical text, with spaces left for initials.
Added musical notation in the upper margin of f. 13r.
Marginal notes on ff. 20r, 34v, 43r, 61r, 75r, 79r, 84v.
Decoration:
Attributed to the Master of Edward IV (active in Bruges, 1470-1500), with red roses and coats of arms added in England.
Historiated initials with partial scatter borders in colours and gold: God enthroned with angels, Psalm 1 (f. 12v); King David with his crown cast down before God, Psalm 26 (f. 40r); King David pointing to his mouth before courtiers, Psalm 38 (f. 56v); King David and a fool, Psalm 52 (f. 72r); King David in the water, Psalm 68 (f. 84v); a man playing bells, Psalm 80 (f. 102v); King David and a choir singing from a large open book, Psalm 97 (120r); God the Father and Christ enthroned and holding a clear orb, with Christ trampling the devil, and an added coat of arms, Psalm 109 (f. 140r).
Partial scatter borders in colours and gold with added roses in the initials: Psalm 51 (f. 69v); Psalm 101 (f. 122r).
Full scatter border in colours and gold with added red roses and a coat of arms (f. 12r).
Small initials in gold on pink and blue fields with white penwork. Line fillers in gold, pink and blue with white penwork. Occasional cadels.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003711338
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003711338
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100161512433.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1480
- End Date:
- 1490
- Date Range:
- 1480-1490
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Restrictions to access apply please consult British Library staff
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 350 x 210 mm (text space: 200 x 140 mm).
Foliation: ff. 1-202 (ff. 1-5, 189-202 and the front and back pastedowns are medieval parchment leaves, ruled in red).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Pre-1600. Wooden boards covered with red velvet, with brass corner guards, bosses and attachments for clasps.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Bruges.
Provenance:
Thomas Houchon Lucas of Suffolk (b. 1460, d. 1539), secretary to Jasper Tudor and Solicitor General under Henry VII, and his wife Elizabeth Kemys (d. by August 1528), who married in 1486 (or 1489): the added arms of Lucas and Morieux quarterly (f. 12r), and these arms impaling Kemys of Monmouthshire (f. 140r).
Thomas Philip, Earl de Grey, of Wrest Park (b. 1781, d. 1859): his bookplate on the inside upper cover.
Purchased by the British Library from Lord Lucas of Crudwell and Dingwall in 2020, with generous support from Art Fund (with a contribution from the Wolfson Foundation), the Bernard H. Breslauer Fund of the American Trust for the British Library and the British Library Collections Trust.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)