Layout: 1 column, 30 lines Decoration: Versal initials in alternating blue and gold highlighted with contrasting penwork (blue on gold and red on blue), with elaborate line-fillers of different designs in gold, red, and blue. Decoration: Larger initials opening individual Psalms in pink or blue with white highlights set against burnished gold grounds, some with extenders terminating in vines or buds. Decoration: Fol. 60.1: 6-line historiated initial "D" inhabited by King David in orange, green, and red robes kneeling and pointing to his mouth while looking up to the face of God in the upper right portion of the initial, all against a dark-blue tesselated background highlighted in black and white. Decoration: The letter itself in blue with fine white highlights enclosed in a red box with white highlights framed in burnished gold. A bar border in red and blue extends from the outer corners of the box the length of the column, terminating in a foliage sray in the top and bottom margins Corrections to text block added in darker black ink after erasure Psalm numbers in margins in early modern ink, occasionally revised in pencil Ruled in plummet Provenance: Fols. 60.1-60.9 donated by Michael Greenberg (Chicago, IL) in 1982, formerly Spec.Rare.CMS.113, I-2, 1982.002.000-9 Provenance: Fol. 60.3a donated by Helge Frank (Chicago, IL) in January 2017 Provenance: For a fuller discussion of the parent manuscript's history and provenance, see: Eric J. Johnson and Scott Gwara. "“The Butcher’s Bill”: Using the Schoenberg Database to Reverse-Engineer Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Books from Constituent Fragments." Provenance: Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, vol. 1 no. 2, 2016, p. 235-262 (esp. pp. 249-252). https://doi.org/10.1353/mns.2016.0015. The original parent manuscript was used in the fourteenth century in the Church of St. Botulph, Iken, Suffolk; see: Eric J. Johnson and Scott Gwara. "“The Butcher’s Bill”: Using the Schoenberg Database to Reverse-Engineer Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Books from Constituent Fragments." Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, vol. 1 no. 2, 2016, p. 235-262 (esp. pp. 249-252). https://doi.org/10.1353/mns.2016.0015. Incipit: Fol. 60.1: pro peccato meo Fol. 60.2: Confundantur et reuerantur Fol. 60.3: Custodi animam meam quoniam Fol. 60.3.1: Et quid domine repellis oracionem meam Fol. 60.4: Visitabo in virga iniquitates eorum Fol. 60.5: Et interfecta est terra in sanguinibus Fol. 60.6: Confessio et magnificencia Fol. 60.7: ultus sum in eos Fol. 60.7.10: Quia apud dominum misericordia Fol. 60.8: Laudate eum in sono tube Fol. 60.9: Per sanctum baptismum tuum Fol. 60.10: tuam ut nostre congregacionis Explicit: Fol. 60.1: domini spes eius ; et non Fol. 60.2: et humiliabit calumpniatorem Fol. 60.3: et mane oracio mea praeveniet te Fol. 60.3.1: prophanaverim : et mandata mea Fol. 60.4: sumus in omnibus diebus nostris Fol. 60.5: et descendunt usque ad abyssos Fol. 60.6: nares habent et non odorabunt Fol. 60.7: quia testimonia tua exquisivi Fol. 60.7.10: qui percussit primo Fol. 60.8: domino ; laudate et Fol. 60.9: sicut liberasti Iob de passio Fol. 60.10: et non alius et ocula mei conspecturi sunt . Sal... Fol. 60.1: Psalms 37:19-37:23, with the canticles "Confitebor tibi domine quoniam natus", "Eve deus salvator meus", "Quia fortitudo mea et laus mea", "Haurietis in aquas in gaudio de fontibus", "Notas facite in populis", "Cantate domine quoniam magnifice", and "Exulta et lauda habitacio Syon, and with Psalms 38:1-39:5 Fol. 60.2: Psalms 69:3-71:4 Fol. 60.3: Psalms 85:2-87:14 Fol. 60.3.1: Psalms 87:15-88:32 Psalms 60.4: Psalms 88:33-89:14 Fol. 60.5: Psalms 105:38-106:26 Fol. 60.6: Psalms 110:3-113:14 Fol. 60.7: Psalms 117:10-118:22 Fol. 60.7.10: Psalms 129:7-134:8 Fol. 60.8: Psalms 150:3-6, "Te Deum" and most of the "Benedicite" Fol. 60.9: conclusion of the Litany, along with ancillary texts such as the "Agnus dei" and text for the "Ordo commendationis animae from the Mass for the Dead Fol. 60.10: Text for the Office of the Dead, including the end of Vespers, the Dirige, and text from the first lesson in the firt Nocturn of Matins
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