Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Psalter

Other related names

• Leighton, George F., former owner
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 189
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 1

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Ancient Greek (to 1453)

Origin

Place

Greece?

Summary

This manuscript is a thirteenth-century Greek psalter, in which the book of Psalms is followed by the nine Biblical Canticles and hymns. Illuminated headpieces appear in three places and the rubrics are in gold, with rubrics also added in red.

Notes

• Flyleaves of nineteenth-century parchment
   
• First two flyleaves almost completely detached
   

Extent

Iii+192+iii; 211 x 168 mm bound to 230 x 174 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1-10 (8), 11 (7, +7), 12-21 (8), 22 (4), 23-24 (8), 25 (6, -6)

Support

Parchment

Binding

Nineteenth-century levant morocco, blind tooled borders of interlaced cable pattern around circular gilt ornaments on the covers, gilt back and spine title, by Bedford

Layout

One column of twenty lines, with initials at the beginning of verses in a narrow column on the left margin; ruled in drypoint; written area: 157 x 115 mm

Decoration

Ornamental head piece on the first page in gold and colors with geometric pattern surmounted by two peacocks (fol. 1r), rubbed; two similar, slightly smaller head pieces, also somewhat rubbed, at Psalm 78 (fol. 88r) and the beginning of the Biblical Canticles (fol. 172r); initials and rubrication in gold; some later rubrication in red

Script

Greek minuscule

Provenance

• George A. Leavitt & Co., Cat. 330, March 3, 1880, no. 625; George F. Leighton, St. Louis (bookplate inside front cover); his sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, April 25, 1929, no. 88 (sale description bound in between second and third flyleaves); (directly to?) John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

Related resources

• 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. 2025, no. 1.
• 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 Free Library, 1937), p. 208, no. 189.

Keywords

• Psalter
• 13th century
• Greece
• Christian
• Illumination
• Scripture

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Psalter
• fol. 172r — Biblical Canticles
• fol. 188r — Hymns

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, George F. Leighton, St. Louis
• fol. 1r — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 88r — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 172r — Illuminated headpiece