The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 851

Metadata

DS ID:

DS9742

Shelfmark:

mssHM 851

Title:

Choir psalter

Place:

Poland

Poland TGN

Date:

16th century

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. i + 129 : parchment, music ; 385 x 595 mm

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Gothic.
Layout: 18(-2, 8; no loss of text) 2-86 96(-6; no loss of text) 108(-8; no loss of text) 116(-2; no loss of text) 12-156 166(-6; no loss of text) 176(-6; text missing between ff. 99-100) 18-216 224 232. Ruled space, 445 x 300 mm; 16 long lines ruled in dry point.
Music: Square notation on 4-line red staves; ff. 125-129v, 5-line.
Decoration: On f. 47, following the psalms for matins, a large miniature, ca. 140 x 270 mm., of a friar at his desk copying Ps. 102; on f. 48v, following the Te deum, a large miniature enclosed in a scroll frame, ca. 150 x 350 mm., of putti in a procession, the chariot being drawn by a cat, while some putti ride a goose, a snail or stick horses, and others play bagpipes or engage in mock...
Other Decoration: The initial on f. 68v, in more sober design and colors, has been cut from another manuscript and pasted in.
Assigned Date: s. XVI.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 12/13/2009.
Written in Poland in the sixteenth century for a Franciscan convent. Date and source of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.

Keyword:

illuminations (paintings)

Psalters

manuscripts (documents)

historiated initials

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861970

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens