The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1054

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9926

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1054

Title:

Psalter

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

between 1285 and 1299

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin and French

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 117 : parchment ; 138 x 203 mm

Former Owner(s):

Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909

Robert Hoe III WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Gothic.
Layout: 16(-3, 4) 2-912 1010 1110(-3, 7, 9, 10; + a leaf added at the end, f. 117). 23 long lines, except f. 116r-v in 2 columns of 23 lines, ruled in lead, double bounding lines on all 4 sides and across the middle of the text; additional single rule in the outer margin.
Decoration: Opening historiated initial, f. 5v, 12-line, in white-patterned blue, enclosing David playing his harp against a burnished gold ground; the initial is set on a diapered rose ground outlined by a narrow gold strip with colored swirled extensions; "-eatus vir" in gold letters on colored compartments, placed along the initial. Nine other historiated initials, 10- to 9-line, in pink or...
Other Decoration: 2-line initials in gold with white-patterned blue or pink infilling and ground of the other color; 1-line initials alternating red with blue flourishing or blue with red; line fillers in alternating series of red or blue curlicues.
Holes across the top of f. 5, presumably from a sewn-in protective cover for the opening initial.
Assigned Date: s. XIIIex.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/31/2012.

Keyword:

grotesques

psalters (books)

decorated initials

manuscripts (documents)

historiated initials

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862158

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:50629/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens