Bryn Mawr College, MS 37
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS16538
- Shelfmark:
- MS 37
- Title:
- Castle Liturgical Psalter
- Place:
- Spain
- Date:
- 1585-1599
- Language:
- Latin
- Material:
- Parchment
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 118; 455 x 325 mm bound to 495 x 350 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Castle, Ethelinda Schaefer
- Note:
- Foliation in brown ink skipped for fol. 115; fols. 115-118 corrected underneath in pencil
Text very worn and much repaired with large sections of text replaced with newer leaves; many places patched with newer pieces of parchment
Binding: Contemporary brown leather cover boards, edges covered with nailed-on, now-rusted iron; brass boss centered on back and front cover; two rusted iron clasps on front and back, with fasteners missing
Layout: Single column, eighteen lines, each line of text with double rulings: a pair of lines, in lead, enclosing the body of the text, centered between a second pair of lines ruled in ink; double vertical and horizontal bounding lines in ink as well as double vertical bounding lines in lead; leaves with musical notation: single column, six lines of five-line staves, with vertical bounding...
Script: Gothic -- textualis
Script: Written by multiple scribes
Decoration: One five-line initial beginning the text and smaller simple initials in red marking sections throughout; staves in red with square, black neumes; rubrication throughout; guide letters for rubricator visible inside or beside most initials
Provenance: Written in Spain in the last part of the sixteenth century; unidentified catalogue entry (no. 63) glued to inside front cover; early provenance unknown; given to Bryn Mawr College in 1972 in the bequest of Ethelinda Schaefer Castle - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/BMC_MS37.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/BMC_MS37/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
