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Title

Psalterium cum canticis

Call number

Ms. Codex 739
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9927039843503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63643088
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2703984

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Dutch

Origin

Date

14--

Place

Netherlands

Summary

Liturgical calendar, psalter, and canticles and prayers in Dutch.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from spine.
   
• Incipit (verse, January): Snijt vleys voer onsen coninck ian, f. 3r; explicit (verse, December): Leest wel wildy ewich vrolick wesen, f. 14v.
   
• Incipit (table of psalms): Om te vinden die XV psalmen die men leset voer alle gheloinghe sielen, f. 15r.
   
• Incipit (canticles): Dat Canticum van Ezechias den conine van iuda doen hy sieck lach vander pestilentien, f. 127v; explicit: god ewelick sonder eynde. Amen, f. 139r.
   
• Translation from the Latin Vulgate, with notes in the margin, headed by Intheb, Theb, etc., which offer translations of the Hebrew version , along with occasional Scriptural cross-references (Webber).
   

Extent

143 leaves : 163 x 120 (106 x 72) mm. bound to 173 x 127 mm

Foliation

Parchment, 143; i-ci, [i], cii-cxlii, contemporary foliation in Roman numerals, upper right recto [folio between f. 101-102 is unnumbered, last 3 f. blank].

Support

Parchment

Binding

Vellum.

Layout

Written in one column of 27 lines, frame-ruled in ink.

Script

Written in a gothic script, in two different hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Laurence Witten, 1961.
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Liturgy--Texts--Manuscripts
• Dutch poetry--Early works to 1800
• Psalters--Texts
• Canticles

Genres

• Codices
• Devotional calendars
• Litanies
• Psalters
• Manuscripts, Dutch--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Devotion
• Liturgy
• Christian
• Netherlands

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Seven penitential psalms, f. 1v
• fol. 3r — Calendar of Utrecht, f. 3r
• fol. 15r — Table of psalms, f. 15r
• fol. 17r — Text of psalms, f. 17r
• fol. 127v — Canticles, litanies, and collects, f. 127v