Indiana University Bloomington, Ricketts 26

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS553

Shelfmark:

Ricketts 26

Title:

Psalter

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

c.1400

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Binding: Bound in early eighteenth-century English mottled calf, red speckled edges, paper endleaves; in a green cloth case.
Figurative details, ff.119: 8 large illuminated initials in coloured leafy designs on illuminated panels with three-quarter bar branching borders (the first with a full border), on fols. 7r (psalm 1), 22v (psalm 26), 32v (psalm 38), 42r (psalm 52), 51r (psalm 68), 62r (psalm 80), 72r (psalm 97) and 83r (psalm 109).
Other decoration, ff.119: Rubrics in red, versal initials in red or blue; 2-line psalm initials in blue with red penwork.
Script, ff.119: Gothic Textura.
Layout, ff.119: Collation: i#^7# [first blank (not included in foliation), of 8, a second blank ii canceled], ii–xv#^8# [last blank], with horizontal catchwords mostly in simple cartouches, some contemporary leaf signatures; ruled in brown, apparently in ink, 23 lines, written-space 154 mm. by 98 mm.; written in brown ink.

Former Owner(s):

C. L. Ricketts, bought from Sotheran’s, London, in 1912; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.

Coella Lindsay Ricketts WIKIDATA

C. L. Ricketts, bought from Sotheran’s, London, in 1912; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.

Henry Sotheran Ltd. WIKIDATA

Associated Agent(s):

Thomas Chauncey, obit.

Thomas Chauncey WIKIDATA

Note:

Bibliography: De Ricci 1935, p. 622.
ff.119: A few early additions.
ff.119: Latin.
ff.1r-117v: Calendar (fol. 1r), of standard Sarum (southern English) use; the psalms (fol. 7r), canticles (fol. 103v) and litany (fol. 113r), ending on fol. 117r. A few responses from the Office of the Dead are added in a fifteenth-century hand on fols. 117r-v. Various late medieval anniversaries were once entered in black ink in the Calendar but most have been erased: one remains, in red ink...

Institutional Record:

https://archive.org/details/Ricketts26_40

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/images_Ricketts26_40/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Indiana University Bloomington