[Glossed psalter]

Timespan:

Medieval, 500-1500

Date:

1100

Description:

The Book of Psalms with extensive, mostly unattributed, interlinear and marginal glosses, followed by canticles with glosses.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Rebound and given the title Lectionnaire (f. 1r) in France in the 18th century (Quaritch).; Sold at auction at Christie's, 2 June 1999, lot 33.; Offered at auction at Sotheby's, 7 December 2004, lot 34.; Sold by Bernard Quaritch Ltd., cat. 1348 (2007), no. 11.

Relation:

Video orientation: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1502729; The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278; Collation model: http://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/113

Subject:

Psalters -- Specimens; Learning and scholarship -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500; Learning and scholarship; History; Psalters

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); commentaries; psalters (books); glosses (annotations); canticles; Manuscripts, Medieval; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

109 leaves : parchment; 134 x 90 (95 x 48) mm bound to 141 x 100 mm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; 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. Link to collation model at end of record.; 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).; Origin: Written in northern France, probably Laon, circa 1100.; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Additional support from the Walter J. Miller Trust.; Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 1058