University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 739

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DS ID:

DS1641

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 739

Title:

Psalterium cum canticis.

Place:

Netherlands

Netherlands TGN

Date:

[14--]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Dutch

Dutch WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 143 leaves : parchment ; 163 x 120 (106 x 72) mm bound to 173 x 127 mm

Note:

Decoration: Red and blue used for capitals and rubrics.
Translation from the Latin Vulgate, with notes in the margin, headed by Intheb, Theb, etc., which offer translations of the Hebrew version , along with occasional Scriptural cross-references (Webber).
Title from spine.
Incipit (canticles): Dat Canticum van Ezechias den conine van iuda doen hy sieck lach vander pestilentien, f. 127v; explicit: god ewelick sonder eynde. Amen, f. 139r.
Ms. codex.
Incipit (verse, January): Snijt vleys voer onsen coninck ian, f. 3r; explicit (verse, December): Leest wel wildy ewich vrolick wesen, f. 14v.
Origin: Written in the southern Netherlands (in the regional dialect), 15th century (Webber).
Binding: Vellum.
Foliation: Parchment, 143; i-ci, [i], cii-cxlii, contemporary foliation in Roman numerals, upper right recto [folio between f. 101-102 is unnumbered, last 3 f. blank].
Layout: Written in one column of 27 lines, frame-ruled in ink.
Script: Written in a gothic script, in two different hands.
Incipit (table of psalms): Om te vinden die XV psalmen die men leset voer alle gheloinghe sielen, f. 15r.
Sold by Laurence Witten, 1961.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Dutch

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

litanies (prayers)

Manuscripts

Texts

devotional calendars

psalters (books)

Psalters

Catholic Church

Dutch poetry

Canticles

Early works

Liturgics

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9927039843503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3xs5jj2z/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania