Script: Gothic characters in red, blue, and brown ink. Decoration: Ten large initials in raised gold and color; many smaller illuminated initials. Seven full page miniatures with raised gold backgrounds. Evidence of textile curtains is present at every miniature; loosely woven pieces of cream colored fabric are retained shrouding the crucifixion and the annunciation miniatures. Decoration: Calendar with elaborate borders and decoration in colors and raised gold. Two hundred eleven smaller miniatures on bottom margins. Binding: Oak boards covered with stamped red leather. Cover linings of vellum, that of the back cover being a 14th-century leaf. Edges painted in red and green. Clasps missing. Housed in a 20th-century red morocco case with gilt spine title reading "Psalterium Davidis." Leaves have been closely trimmed. Decorations and text well preserved. Provenance: Gift of Alfred Clark Chapin. Purchased on behalf of the Chapin Library from L.C. Harper, February 1, 1919. Hazlitt-Huth copy. Huth sale (London, July 18, 1917), No. 6009. Bought by Edwards and sold to L.C. Harper. Recto of second leaf inscribed: “Taschen von I. Kossel. R.” Illuminated psalter, almost certainly written and decorated by the Cistercian nuns of Medingen Abbey (Lower Saxony)
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