(Q17228)
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28 November 2023
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Cistercian psalter : in ten parts : with calendar, canticles and litany : in Latin].
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Germany
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Austria
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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between 1200 and 1225
13. century
1200Gregorian
1225Gregorian
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Extent: 200 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 147 x 105 (95 x 70) mm bound to 17 cm
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Ms. codex.
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In Latin, with rubrics and additions in German.
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Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
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Secundo folio: [fol. 2, 15th-century] Dominicus diebus/ Invitatorium Adoremus/... [Psalter, fol. 23]...filius meus et tu.
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Collation: Parchment, fol. i (modern parchment) + 200 + i (modern parchment) ; 110+2 (15th-century) 28−2 (mid-13th-century, lacking 2 folios after fol. 18) 32+1 (fol. 19-21 added 15th century; fol. 19 is a singleton, fol. 20-21 a bifolium) 4-1510 168 1712 188 1912 206+1(fol. 188 is a singleton and was the original explicit of the manuscript) 2110 (added 15th century) 222 (blank bifolium, the...
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Layout: Single column, 19 lines. Bounding and writing lines in blind.
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Script: Written in a late romanesque bookhand, additions in various gothic cursives in brown ink with red rubrics
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Decoration: Minor Psalms begin with 3-line initials in green with red, or green, or red, throughout; verse initials mid-line in red capitals; some decorative orange line-fillers; decorative initials at major Psalm divisions, in two styles: 13-line white vine initials in red ink filled with colors at major Psalm divisions (Psalms 1, 38, 51 and 101), each followed by the first few words of the...
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Binding: Modern German light-brown blind-stamped and -ruled sheespkin, vellum pastedowns and conjugate flyleaves, spine in compartments, gilt-stamped title on spine: "PSALTERIUM/ VEL/ LECTIONARIUM/ LATINUM/ 14. JAHRH."; metal clasps intact.
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Origin: Written in Southern Germany or Austria in the early thirteenth century, with additions throughout the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries in Latin and German. The litany includes typical southern German/Austrian saints such as Oswald, Quirinus, Kilian, Udalricus, Columbanus, Gall and Othmar.
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Provenance: Early-modern monogram "JJS" inside rear cover; ownership stamp "SE" inverted on fol. 3.
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Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased in 1957 from Otto Haas, London.
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Call number: MS q Med.163.
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Former call number: MS 1588.
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4 December 2023
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