Harvard University, MS Typ 311

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DS ID:

DS11145

Shelfmark:

MS Typ 311

Title:

Psalter

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Date:

ca. 1225-ca. 1250

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1, 154 leaves, bound : vellum ; 23 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Saint-Riquier (Monastery : Saint-Riquier, France)

Saint-Riquier WIKIDATA

Abbaye de Dommartin

Abbaye de Dommartin WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in an angular gothic book hand in black ink in one column. Initial letters of verses are alternately gold and blue with pen-work decoration. The verses finish with line-filler ornaments in blue, red and gold.
Initial letters of the Psalms are illuminated in gold and colors. The following are historiated: Pss 1, 26, 38, 51, 52, 68, 80, 97, 101, 109.
The calendar contains a historiated initial and one other miniature for each month.
Bound in 19th-century blind-tooled brown calf.
In a red morocco pull-off case, 25 cm.
Written for the Abbey of Centula, or Saint Riquier, near Abbeyville in northern France. For the evidence from the calendar and litany, see Meyvaert and Huglo.
Abbaye de Dommartin (1700; note on front flyleaf, erased; see Marks in the Fields, 102).
Deposited by Philip Hofer, 1967; bequeathed, 1984.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Hymns, Latin

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990097533600203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:3867882

Holding Institution:

Harvard University