Lewis Psalter (DS4532) (Q21096)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis E 185, Lewis E 185)
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Lewis Psalter (DS4532)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis E 185, Lewis E 185)

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    physical description
    Extent: i+191+i; 228 x 165 mm bound to 238 x 175 mm; parchment
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    note
    Fol. 1, with the Beatus initial for Psalm 1 on its verso side, has been removed from its original position preceding fol. 32r and now forms a flyleaf
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    Prayer to Saint Martial on fol. 2r, written in a fifteenth-century cursive hand, reads: Sanctus Martialis discipulus Chri[sti] virgo. / Crux enim domini armatura v[est]ra invicta contra satanam galea / custodiens caput. Lorica protegens pectus, clipeus tela maligni / repellens; gladius iniquitatem et angelicas insidias p[ervers]sae potestat[is] / sibi propinquare sinens nullo modo. Hoc solo...
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    Note on fol. 32r, written in a late-sixteenth-century hand (the phrase can be attributed to Louis de Blois [1506-1566]) : Psalmodia, carmen est celeste: et eos a quibus colitur sedulo, ex hominibus in angelos transfigurat
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    Prayer entitled "Oratio" on fol. 191v, consisting of the Collects for the fifth and seventh Sundays after Trinity, written in a fifteenth- or sixteenth-century hand, reads: Da nobis q[uaesumu]s domine [deus noster] ut et mundi cursus nobis pa[ci]fice tuo ordine / dirigatur : et ecclesia tua tranquilla devotione la[e]tetur. / Deus virtutum cui[u]s totium quod est optimum : infere pecto / ribus...
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    Binding: Seventeenth-century, French, black morocco over wooden boards with two clasps; "PSALMODIA" stamped in gold on spine
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    Layout: One column of twenty lines, ruled in red; written area: 148 x 84 mm, edges trimmed
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    Script: Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata
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    Decoration: Twenty-five full-page miniatures (prefatory cycle + initial B), twenty-four roundels in calendar, eight large (+/- eight lines) historiated initials, smaller (three-line) historiated initials beginning each of the 150 psalms (as well as divisions in Ps. 118) and canticles throughout, flourished and illuminated initials, illuminated line endings with marginal extensions throughout...
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    Related resource: A Catalogue Forming a Portion of the Library of Robert Hoe (New York, 1909), pp. 162-164.
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    Related resource: De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York,: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2028, no. 21.
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    Related resource: Free Library of Philadelphia, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (Philadelphia: The Library, 1937), p. 200-204, no. 185.
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    Related resource: Walters Art Gallery. Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, January 27-March 13 (Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1949), pp. 21-22, no. 52, pl. 26.
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    Related resource: Branner, Robert, "Le Premier évangélaire de la Sainte-Chapelle," Revue de l'Art 3 (1969), pp. 37-48, esp. p. 45.
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    Related resource: Haussherr, Reiner, Bible moralisée: Faksimile-Ausgabe im Originalformat des Codex Vindobonensis 2554 der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek (Graz: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt; Paris: Club du Livre, 1973), vol. 2, pp.29-31.
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    Related resource: Branner, Robert, Manuscript Painting in Paris during the Reign of St. Louis: A Study of Styles (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977), pp. 61, 208.
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    Related resource: Luba, Eleen, The Illustration of the Pauline Epistles in French and English Bibles of the Thirteenth Century (Oxford: Clarendon, 1982), p. 134.
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    Related resource: Peterson, Elizabeth A., "Accidents and Adaptations in Transmission among Fully-Illustrated French Psalters in the Thirteenth Century," Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 50 (1987), pp. 375-84.
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    Related resource: Wolf 2nd, Edwin, ed. Legacies of Genius: A Celebration of Philadelphia Libraries, A Selection of Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries, 1988), p. 35, no. 1.
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    Related resource: Oliver, Judith H., Gothic Manuscript Illumination in the Diocese of Liège, c. 1250-c.1330, Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts from the Low Countries, vol. 2 (Leuven, Belgium: Uitgeverij Peeters, 1988), vol. 1, p. 151, note. 23.
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    Related resource: Peterson, Elizabeth A., "Iconography of the Historiated Psalm Initials in the Thirteenth Century French Fully-Illustrated Psalter Group" Ph.D. Dissertation., University of Pittsburgh, 1991.
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    Related resource: Alexander, Jonathan J. G., Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work, (New Haven: Conn., and London: Yale University Press, 1992), p.p. 163-64, note 15.
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    Related resource: Peterson, Elizabeth A., "The Textual Basis for Visual Errors in French Gothic Psalter Illustration," in The Early Medieval Bible: Its Production, Decoration, and Use, ed. Richard Gameson, Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 177-204.
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    Related resource: Fitzgerald, Wilma, Ocelli Nominum, (Toronto: Pontifical Institute for Medieval Studies, 2000), p. 78.
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    Related resource: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections, edited by James R. Tanis (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001), pp. 51-53, no. 10.
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    Related resource: Büttner, F. O., "Der Illuminierte Psalter im Westen," in The Illuminated Psalter: Studies in the Content, Purpose, and Placement of its Images, ed. F. O. Büttner (Turnhuot: Brepols, 2004), p. 35 (n189); 68 (n21).
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    Related resource: Bräm, Andreas, "Neapolitanische Trecento-Psaltierien," in The Illuminated Psalter: Studies in the Content, Purpose, and Placement of its Images, ed. F. O. Büttner (Turnhout: Brepols, 2004), pp. 197-199.
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    Related resource: Sandler, Lucy Freeman, "Word Imagery in English Gothic Psalters," in The Illuminated Psalter: Studies in the Content, Purpose, and Placement of its Images, ed. F. O. Büttner (Turnhout: Brepols, 2004), 392 (n22).
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    Related resource: Peterson, Elizabeth A., "Scholastic Hermeneutics in Historiated Initials of 13th-Century French Psalters," in The Illuminated Psalter: Studies in the Content, Purpose, and Placement of its Images, ed. F. O. Büttner (Turnhout: Brepols, 2004), pp. 349-360.
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    Related resource: Vidas, Cristina, The Christina Psalter (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2006), pp. 36-38.
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    Related resource: Stahl, Harvey, Picturing Kingship: History and Painting in the Psalter of Saint Louis (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008), p. 290.
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    Related resource: Frońska, Joanna, "Memory and the Making of Images: A Case of a Legal Manuscript," Manuscripta: A Journal of Manuscript Research 54, no. 1 (2010), p. 3, n. 6 (article pp. 1-20).
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    Related resource: Klancher, Nancy, The Taming Of The Canaanite Woman (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013), p. 289.
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    Related resource: Frońska, Joanna, "The Memory of Roman Law in an Illuminated Manuscript of Justinian's Digest," in Memory and commemoration in medieval culture, ed. Elma Brenner, Meredith Cohen, and Mary Franklin-Brown (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013), p. 164, n. 9 (article pp. 163-79)
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    Related resource: Bartlett, Robert, Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things? Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015), p. 419.
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    Provenance: Limoges (fifteenth century) ?, Henry Gee Barnard (1789-1858) of Cave Castle, Howden, Yorkshire; Clarence Sweet Bement, Philadelphia (1843-1923); Robert Hoe, New York; sale, Anderson Auction Company, New York, 1912, II, lot 2507; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia (through A. S. W. Rosenbach); given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
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    acknowledgements
    Contributor: Diane Biunno
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    Cataloger: Nicholas Herman
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    Cataloger: Amey Hutchins
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    Funder: Council on Library and Information Resources
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    date added
    4 December 2023
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    date last updated
    4 December 2023
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