Title supplied by cataloger. Collation: Parchment. a-b6, d10−1+1, f10 (signature "e" is not used), g12−1, h12, i10−1, k12−1, l12, m12−1, n10, o-p12−1, q12, r12−1, s12, t12−1, t-z12 (signatures "u" and "w" are not used), aa4, bb-ee8, 74−2(?); lacking all of quire [c], lacking single folios after fol. 12, 43, 62, 77, 99, 112, 132, 155, and 171 (these are the folios beginning the ten Psalter divisions); at least two folios... Layout: 1 columns, 18 lines. Writing lines light brown ink or plummet, prickings partially preserved at corners. Square notation on a four-line red staff. Script: Written in a Gothic bookhand, by two scribes, the second beginning at fol. 230, in black ink. Red rubrics. Decoration: Apparently lacking 10 initials, one beginning each of the major Psalter divisions on each of the missing folios. Psalm initials are gold on blue and salmon background; initials cut from fol. 102, 103, 114, and 138; verse initials alternate gold with blue filigree and blue with red filigree; line fillers are gold bars with blue and salmon patterning; a second artist begins at fol. 219. Origin: Written at, or for the use of, the Fontevrault Abbey of Cluniac monks and nuns in the early fifteenth century. This is indicated by the inclusion of the Dedication of Fontevrault Abbey in the calendar in red (31 August). The manuscript's use by a community of both nuns and monks (as was Fontefrault) is indicated by the rubric on fol. 227 for a prayer to be recited for recently deceased... Nineteenth-century pencil signature of one Rev. R. J. Bunck on fol. 1.
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