The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1041

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9923

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1041

Title:

Psalter, with collects

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Artist:

Felice, Matteo, active 1467-1493

Matteo Felice WIKIDATA

Place:

Naples?

Naples TGN

Date:

between 1485 and 1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 194 : parchment ; 163 x 232 mm

Note:

Title from printed catalog
Support: Parchment.
Script: Humanistic.
Layout: 1-1810 198 206. Evidence of one catchword, f. 80v, horizontally in the inner corner. 20 long lines, ruled in ink with only the vertical bounding lines full length; written above the top line.
Decoration: Opening leaves, ff. ii verso and 1, decorated with large miniatures and historiated borders, probably by Matteo Felice, although they have been damaged and heavily repainted. Leaves of psalter divisions decorated across the top by a band of 3 small miniatures, presumably by the same artist, and generally of 2 OT types at the sides and the NT antitype in the middle, with a full...
Other Decoration: At psalter divisions, 3-line initials in white-patterned blue or dark pink against infilling of the other color with a colored acanthus leaf in the center, on a gold ground. To begin individual psalms, 3-line gold initials entwined in white vine stem, infilled in red and green, on a blue ground; 2-line initials for the collects in gold on white-patterned blue, red and green...
Assigned Date: s. XVex.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/31/2012.
Written in southern Italy, perhaps Naples, to judge from the style of the decoration; the presence of Onuphrius in the litany may also suggest a southern origin. The coat of arms in the lower border of f. 1 has been repainted and is now per fess, or and gules. A lengthy note in Italian accompanying the volume states that the artist "fu certamente senese o fiorentino" and that the book belonged...

Keyword:

Psalters

manuscripts (documents)

illuminations (paintings)

decorated initials

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862155

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52125/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens