[Ferial psalter]

Name:

Catholic Church

Date:

1350

Description:

Ferial psalter, containing the psalms divided into eight sections: seven for the psalms for matins through the week and the eighth containing all the psalms for vespers, accompanied by indications of invitatories, antiphons, hymns, short chapter readings, and concluding with canticles, a litany and prayers. The eight sections are marked with illumination or penwork. The psalter is preceded by antiphons and hymns added in the 16th century and a 14th-century liturgical calendar including the feast day of Saint Vigilius, Bishop of Trent, and 17th-century entries for the deaths of members of the community of the Benedictine abbey of Saint Walburga.

Language:

Latin; German

Provenance:

Formerly held by the Abbey of Saint-Walburga, Eichstätt, Bavaria, in the 16th and 17th century (calendar additions, 9r-13v).; Sold by Les Enluminures (Chicago & Paris), 2007.; Benediktinerinnenabtei St. Walburg (Eichstätt, Germany), former owner.

Relation:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278

Subject:

Catholic Church -- Prayers and devotions -- Early works to 1800; Catholic Church; Psalters -- Specimens; Psalters

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); codices (bound manuscripts); devotional calendars; illuminated manuscripts; psalters (books); prayers (compositions); devotional literature; death registers; canticles; Manuscripts, Medieval

Physical Description:

272 leaves : parchment; 116 x 75 (80 x 55) mm bound to 125 x 95 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Table of contents: 1. ff.1r-8v: Antiphons and hymns added in the 16th century.; Table of contents: 2. ff.9r-13v: Calendar with 17th-century necrology.; Table of contents: 3. ff.14r-229r: Ferial psalter.; Table of contents: 4. ff.229v-245r: Canticles.; Table of contents: 5. ff.245r-248r: Athanasian creed.; Table of contents: 6. ff.248r-252v: Litany.; Table of contents: 7. ff.252v-271v: Prayers and hymns.; Collation: Parchment and paper, 272; 1⁶ 2-22¹² 23⁶; quires 3-23 signed i-xxii in red on last verso, except quire 18 (xvi), where the lower margin of the last leaf has been repaired; [1-10; 10-271]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto, with two leaves marked 10; the foliation references in this record use the pencil foliation as it appears in the manuscript.; Layout: Written in 16 long lines (psalter).; Script: Calendar and main text written in a Gothic hand; first quire of antiphons and hymns, additions to calendar, and marginalia in later hands.; Decoration: One historiated initial and one inhabited initial, painted, with white tracery and painted ascenders and descenders with grotesques in the margins (King David, f. 15v; f. 182v); four 4- to 6-line painted initials in blue and red with openwork foliate motifs, decorated with red and blue penwork and grotesques (ff. 46v, 106r, 132v, 156v); two 2- to 3- line painted initials with red and blue penwork (ff. 67r, 86r); numerous 1- and 2- line initials alternating between red and blue; rubrics in red; hand-colored engraving of St. Christopher pasted onto front pastedown.; Binding: Late 16th-century blind-stamped pigskin with two brass clasps.; Origin: Probably written in Trento (based on liturgical calendar), circa 1350.; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Latin, with later additions in German.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 1057