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Title

Chew psalter

Other related names

• Gray, Howard, former owner
• Chew, Samuel C. (Samuel Claggett), 1888-1960, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2005078588.html)
• Chew, Lucy Evans, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 28
(Bryn Mawr, United States, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College Library)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/ms28.shtml

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

France

Summary

This is a French psalter from the fourth quarter of the fifteenth century. It includes a Calendar of Rouen, the Biblical Psalter, Twelve Ferial Canticles, and the Litany followed by Prayers, although there is some missing text and the psalms begin incompletely.

Notes

• The codex was re-bound incorrectly; fols. 9-10 should follow fols. 11-12
   

Extent

Ii+64+ii; 252 x 184 mm bound to 259 x 192 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil in both upper and lower corners recto

Collation

Structure uncertain

Support

Parchment

Binding

Modern parchment with vellum cords

Layout

Two columns, thirty-eight lines, ruled in red ink with single vertical and horizontal bounding lines, full length; written area: 173 x 110; Calendar five columns, thirty-four lines, single bounding lines in red

Decoration

Six-line initials in grisaille made of acanthus patterns or dragon grotesques infilled with the same patterns beginning some psalms; other psalms introduced by similar two-line initials, verses by similar one-line initials and line fillers; calendar headed with two-line KL monograms in blue shaded monochrome, similar in design; rubrication in red throughout

Script

Bâtarde

Provenance

• Written in France in the fifteenth century probably in Rouen as indicated from the saints in the calendar and the litany; given that the feast of Our Lady of the Snows (5 Aug.) was introduced at Rouen in 1454 by Guillaume d'Estouteville (Leroquais, LH I.206), the manuscript belongs to the second half or, more probably, the end of the fifteenth century.; in upper margin of fol. 1r "Bibliothecae B. M. Boni-portus" in ink; early provenance unknown; bequeathed to Samuel C. and Lucy Evens Chew by Howard Gray; given to Bryn Mawr College in 1962 by Samuel C. and Lucy Evans Chew
   

Genres

• Psalters

Keywords

• 15th century
• Psalter
• French
• France
• Grisaille
• Grotesques
• Biblical

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Calendar (September-December lacking)
• fol. 9r — Biblical Psalter (Psalms 1-10 and part of 11 lacking), followed by Twelve Ferial Canticles, Litany, and prayers

Decorations

• Flyleaf 1 recto — Notation in pencil
• Flyleaf 2 recto — Notation in pencil
• Flyleaf 2 recto — Print catalog clipping
• fol. 1r — Notation in ink
• fol. 15v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 20r — Zoomorphic initial D
• fol. 24v — Zoomorphic initial D
• fol. 34r — Zoomorphic initial E
• fol. 39v — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 40r — Manicule
• fol. 45r — Illuminated initial D
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Notation in pencil
• Flyleaf 2 recto — Notation in pencil
• Flyleaf 2 recto — Print catalog clipping