Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Ferial psalter.

Authors

• Catholic Church

Other related names

• Benediktinerinnenabtei St. Walburg (Eichstätt, Germany), former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1057
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9940876113503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123490362
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3dz03577

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin, with later additions in German

Origin

Date

1350?

Place

Trento (Italy)

Summary

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.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• 1. ff.1r-8v: Antiphons and hymns added in the 16th century.
   
• 2. ff.9r-13v: Calendar with 17th-century necrology.
   
• 3. ff.14r-229r: Ferial psalter.
   
• 4. ff.229v-245r: Canticles.
   
• 5. ff.245r-248r: Athanasian creed.
   
• 6. ff.248r-252v: Litany.
   
• 7. ff.252v-271v: Prayers and hymns.
   

Extent

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

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.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Late 16th-century blind-stamped pigskin with two brass clasps.

Layout

Written in 16 long lines (psalter).

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.

Script

Calendar and main text written in a Gothic hand; first quire of antiphons and hymns, additions to calendar, and marginalia in later hands.

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.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• devotional calendars
• illuminated manuscripts
• Psalters
• Prayers
• Devotional literature
• Death registers
• Canticles
• Finding tabs
• Manuscripts, Latin--14th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Specimens
• Prayers
• Devotional literature

Keywords

• 14th century
• Psalter
• Devotion
• Illumination
• Italy
• Christian
• Italian

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Antiphons and hymns [16th century], f. 1r
• fol. 9r — Calendar with 17th c. necrology, f. 9r

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Engraving of Saint Christopher [pasted in], Inside front cover