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Metadata

DS ID:

DS30525

Shelfmark:

ege-42

Title:

Ege leaf 42: Psalter, Germany, 1499

Psalter

Place:

Germany;Würzburg

Germany TGN

Würzburg TGN

Date:

1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

Vellum (parchment)

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf; Vellum (parchment); 44 cm x 29.5 cm

Former Owner(s):

Ege, Otto F.

Otto Ege WIKIDATA

Benedictine monastery of St. Stephan (Würzburg, Germany)

St. Stephen's Abbey, Würzburg WIKIDATA

Note:

Script: Gothic
Decoration: initials (layout features); pen-flourished initials; rubrics; rules (layout features); musical notation; long-line format;
The following text is based on the original seller's label. 42. VELLUM LEAF FROM A MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT
GERMANY (Würzburg)
Late XVth Century
Latin Text
Angular Gothic Script, Gothic Notation
Psalter
(Psalterium)
FROM THE COLLECTION OF OTTO F. EGE.
This leaf from the Book of Psalms was written in the Benedictine monastery of St.Stephan in Würzburg and dated 1499 A.D. The book hand closely resembles the fine early gothic types called lettre de forme and used by Fust and Schoeffer in their superb Psalter issued in 1457
It is known that these printers also used this type to print the Canon of the mass which was frequently sold as a replacement for the soiled and worn out manuscript pages of that text
A close examination indicates that the scribe apparently tried to imitate printing type characters in many instances
In just the same way, the first printers had copied in their designs the current local book hand
The line of music giving the "free" melody of the psalm here retains the early XIIth century staff, with the C-line colored yellow and the F-line red
These note forms are frequently called Hufnagelschrift or horse-shoe nail notation because of their resemblance to hobnails.
Fifty original leaves from medieval manuscripts, Western Europe, XII-XVI century

Keyword:

Psalters

Manuscripts

Institutional Record:

http://media.library.ohio.edu/digital/collection/p15808coll19/id/199

IIIF Manifest:

https://media.library.ohio.edu/iiif/2/p15808coll19:199/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Ohio University