Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger. Collation: Parchment and paper, 272; 16 2-2212 236; quires 3-23 signed i-xxii in red on last verso, except quire 18 (xvi), where the lower margin of the last leaf has been repaired; [1-10; 10-271]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto, with two leaves marked 10; the foliation references in this record use the pencil foliation as it appears in the manuscript. Layout: Written in 16 long lines (psalter). Script: Calendar and main text written in a Gothic hand; first quire of antiphons and hymns, additions to calendar, and marginalia in later hands. Decoration: One historiated initial and one inhabited initial, painted, with white tracery and painted ascenders and descenders with grotesques in the margins (King David, f. 15v; f. 182v); four 4- to 6-line painted initials in blue and red with openwork foliate motifs, decorated with red and blue penwork and grotesques (ff. 46v, 106r, 132v, 156v); two 2- to 3- line painted initials with red... Binding: Late 16th-century blind-stamped pigskin with two brass clasps. Origin: Probably written in Trento (based on liturgical calendar), circa 1350. Formerly held by the Abbey of Saint-Walburga, Eichstätt, Bavaria, in the 16th and 17th century (calendar additions, 9r-13v). Sold by Les Enluminures (Chicago & Paris), 2007.
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