Indiana University Bloomington, Ricketts 23

Metadata

DS ID:

DS541

Shelfmark:

Ricketts 23

Title:

Breviary, Psalter

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

s. XIV(in); 1307-1315

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Binding: Not bound.
Other decoration, ff. 1-6: Extensive rubrics in red, versal initials in alternating blue with red penwork and burnished gold with red or pale blue penwork; 2- to 3-line initials throughout in burnished gold on red and blue panel grounds with white tracery.
Script, ff. 1-6: Liturgical textura.
Layout, ff. 1-6: 2 columns, ruled in red ink, 32 lines, each column 145 mm. by 37 mm. with 6 mm. between columns; traces of different sequences of old folio numbers in ink and in pencil (now mostly erased).

Former Owner(s):

Benedictine abbey of Saint Peter, Chertsey, Surrey; C. L. Ricketts, who bought 27 leaves from Leighton, Catalogue of Manuscripts, 1912, no. 49 (now Ricketts MS 47) and 6 further leaves from Tregaskis (now Ricketts MS23); acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.

Church of St Peter, Chertsey WIKIDATA

Benedictine abbey of Saint Peter, Chertsey, Surrey; C. L. Ricketts, who bought 27 leaves from Leighton, Catalogue of Manuscripts, 1912, no. 49 (now Ricketts MS 47) and 6 further leaves from Tregaskis (now Ricketts MS23); acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.

Coella Lindsay Ricketts WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript note: See also Ricketts 47. See also Ricketts 23. The Chertsey Breviary dates from the abbacy of John of Rotherwick. When complete, it had well over 500 leaves, with a Calendar, the Temporal, a ferial Psalter, and the Sanctoral. In the early nineteenth century, many of the prettiest initials, fragments of illuminated borders and a few whole leaves were cut out and were acquired by...
Bibliography: De Ricci 1935, pp. 621 and 625; J. R. Graver in ‘Catalogue’ 1988, pp. 9-13, no. 3; Michael and Morgan 1993, p. 33.
ff. 1-6: The initials for psalms 38, 68 and 80, which were part of this section, are on Bodleian MS Lat. liturg. d. 42, fols. 22–24. The main scribe of Bodlean, MS Lat. liturg. e. 6. (which includes most of the Chertsey Breviary's Calendar, with the anniversaries of the deaths of the abbots of Chertsey as far as Abbot Bartholomew, Rotherwick’s predecessor, who died on 15 July 1307) they...
ff. 1-6: Latin.
ff. 1-6: Psalter, with psalms 31: 9 to 36: 14, psalms 82: 9 to 85: 2, psalms 87: 13 to 88: 29 and psalms 91: 13 to 94:4.

Holding Institution:

Indiana University Bloomington