Harvard University, MS Typ 260

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10945

Shelfmark:

MS Typ 260

Title:

Psalms with the ordinary gloss

Date:

ca. 1150 - ca. 1200

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 235 leaves, bound : vellum ; 29 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Lacaita, C. C. 1853-1933

Charles Carmichael Lacaita WIKIDATA

Lacaita, Mary, -1924

Mary Lacaita WIKIDATA

Frost, H. Harvey

Henry Harvey Frost WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in brownish ink in three columns of constant width, the biblical text in the central column with the gloss (by Anselm of Laon) in smaller writing in the outside columns and between the lines of the biblical text. The biblical text is written in a rounded Italian 12th-century minuscule; the gloss in a more compressed and less rounded script.
F. 1v contains a large initial B in brushed gold and colors with white-vine decoration. Major divisions of the Psalms begin with similar smaller initials. Minor initials are orange-red uncials.
Bound in 18th-century Italian vellum.
In a tray case, 31 cm.
Bookplates of Charles and Mary Lacaita (sale, London, 20 July 1936, lot 189) and H. Harvey Frost.
Deposited by Philip Hofer, 1967; bequeathed, 1984.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990096775230203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/ids:53794259

Holding Institution:

Harvard University