University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1058
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS880
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 1058
- Title:
- Glossed psalter.
- Place:
- Laon?, France
- Date:
- [circa 1100]
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 109 leaves : parchment ; 134 x 90 (95 x 48) mm bound to 141 x 100 mm
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Origin: Written in northern France, probably Laon, circa 1100.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment, 109; 1-3⁸ 4⁸(-4, no loss of text) 5-7⁸ 8⁸(-5, no loss of text) 9-10⁸ 11¹⁰(gathering of 8 with additional bifolium sewn in) 12⁸ 13¹³ (gathering of 8 with 5 single leaves sewn in); modern pencil foliation, lower right recto.
Layout: Psalms written in 22 lines, marginal glosses written in up to 58 lines; ruled in drypoint for psalms and glosses.
Script: Written in a late Caroline minuscule script; opening words of psalms and some headings in glosses in majuscules.
Decoration: Large (three-quarters page) opening initial (f. 1v) added ca. 1250, divided brown and red with penwork infill and surround in brown and red; initials and versal capitals added to early pages (ff. 2-16) in red, probably 13th c., otherwise left blank.
Binding: 18th-century French calf gilt (Quaritch).
Sold at auction at Christie's, 2 June 1999, lot 33.
Rebound and given the title Lectionnaire (f. 1r) in France in the 18th century (Quaritch).
Offered at auction at Sotheby's, 7 December 2004, lot 34.
Sold by Bernard Quaritch Ltd., cat. 1348 (2007), no. 11. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940948533503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3bz6179x/manifest
- Holding Institution:
