Magna Glossatura in Psalmost (DS524) (Q2534)

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Magna Glossatura in Psalmost (DS524)
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    Magna Glossatura in Psalmost
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    Given by Rudolf, priest of Lindau, to a monastery, doubtless the Premonstratensian imperial abbey of Weissenau (founded in 1145, suppressed in 1803), where it was by the time of the eighteenth-century inscription on fol. 1r, Bibliothecę Weissenaw probably one of the two twelfth- to thirteenth-century Psalter commentaries noted by M. Gerbert on his visit to Weissenau in 1760 (Lehmann 1918, p. 408).
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    ; many manuscripts from Weissenau were appropriated by the last abbot, Bonaventura Brem (1755-1818), who retired to Schloss Liebenau, whence they were bought c. 1842 by Georg von Waldburg-Zeil, S.J. [1823-1866), for the Jesuit College at Fribourg-en-Suisse, but were dispersed in 1854 before the presentation had been made; bound in London, c. 1860.
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    probably not lot 106 in the Savile sale, Sotheby’s, 6 February 1861 (as suggested by de Ricci); Sir Thomas Brooke (1830-1908), by 1891; his sale, Sotheby’s, 24 November 1913, lot 13; bought from W. M. Voynich in January 1917 by C. L. Ricketts, and acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
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    s. XIII(in); 1200-1215
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    Binding: Bound in nineteenth-century blind-stamped brown morocco by Charles Tucket, c. 1860, according to de Ricci, paper pastedowns, text block broken away from binding; in a dark brown cloth case.
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    Figurative details, ff. 1-288r: 17 large initials in many colours on stepped panelled grounds (two illuminated and historiated, fols. 1v and 213r, five illuminated but with animals or other decoration, fols. 3r (two initials), 96v (two initials) and 190v, three historiated but without gold or silver, fols. 45v, 73r and 186v, and seven in small painted or leafy designs, fols. 97v, 125v, 158v...
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    Other decoration, ff. 1-288r: Headings in dark red, authorities in dark red in margins keyed into the text with pairs of dark red dots, one-line verse initials and 2-line psalm initials throughout in red, opening letters of major psalms in red and blue capitals.
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    Script, ff. 1-288r: Gothic Textura.
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    Layout, ff. 1-288r: Collation: i–xxxvi#^8#, with contemporary numerical signatures on last versos, one catchword (fol. 144v, end of quire xviii); 2 columns, ruled in plummet for 43 lines but the text broken into consecutive blocks of text written on alternate ruled lines) and commentary (written on the ruled lines themselves), each column 264 mm. by 82 mm. with 11 mm. between each column...
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    Manuscript note: Donor inscription of Rudolf of Lindau on f. 45v. on book in historiated initial.
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    Bibliography: Brooke 1891, II, p. 542; Rothschild 1930, p. 194; Lehmann 1932, p. 2; De Ricci 1935, p. 621; Swarzenski 1943, pp. 60 and 64, fig. 87; Miner 1949, p. 12, no. 25, pl. 20; Randall 1964, pl. on front cover; Krämer 1989-90, pp. 494 and 818; Michon 1995, pp. 468 and 480, fig. 18; Wenzel 1996, pp. 89 and 122; Burmeister 1999, passim; Holcomb, Dale and Janis 2008, p. 180.
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    ff. 1-288r: Some thirteenthcentury additions or corrections (e.g., fols. 115v, 205v and 214r–v). Scribe identification is based on de Hamel (2010, p.60) "two related manuscripts from Weissenau, very probably by the same scribe and artist, are Amiens, Bibliothèque municipale, ms Lescalopier 30 (Ambrose,Hexaemeron), and Cologny/Geneva, Fondation Bodmer, MS Lat. 127 (Legendary). Both include rare...
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    ff. 1-288r: Latin.
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    f. 1v-288r: fol. 1v, prologue: Cum omnes prophetas (Stegmüller no. 6637; Migne, PL 191: 55).
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    Incipit, f. 1v-288r: vox est, Omnis spiritus laudet dominum.
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