Bryn Mawr College, MS 28

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS16530

Shelfmark:

MS 28

Title:

Chew psalter

Psalter

Chew Psalter

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

1475-1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

Parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: ii+64+ii; 252 x 184 mm bound to 259 x 192 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Gray, Howard

Howard Gray WIKIDATA

Chew, Samuel C. (Samuel Claggett), 1888-1960

Samuel Claggett Chew WIKIDATA

Chew, Lucy Evans

Lucy Evans Chew WIKIDATA

Note:

The codex was re-bound incorrectly; fols. 9-10 should follow fols. 11-12
Binding: Modern parchment with vellum cords
Layout: Two columns, thirty-eight lines, ruled in red ink with single vertical and horizontal bounding lines, full length; written area: 173 x 110; Calendar five columns, thirty-four lines, single bounding lines in red
Script: Bâtarde
Decoration: Six-line initials in grisaille made of acanthus patterns or dragon grotesques infilled with the same patterns beginning some psalms; other psalms introduced by similar two-line initials, verses by similar one-line initials and line fillers; calendar headed with two-line KL monograms in blue shaded monochrome, similar in design; rubrication in red throughout
Provenance: Written in France in the fifteenth century probably in Rouen as indicated from the saints in the calendar and the litany; given that the feast of Our Lady of the Snows (5 Aug.) was introduced at Rouen in 1454 by Guillaume d'Estouteville (Leroquais, LH I.206), the manuscript belongs to the second half or, more probably, the end of the fifteenth century.; in upper margin of fol. 1r...

Keyword:

Psalters

Grisaille painting

France

biblical

Fifteenth century

French (culture or style)

grotesques

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/BMC_MS28.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/BMC_MS28/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Bryn Mawr College