MS 28 Chew psalter
Title
Chew psalterOther 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
Publisher
Bryn Mawr College LibraryLanguage
LatinOrigin
Fourth quarter 15th century
- Place
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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 mmFoliation
Modern foliation in pencil in both upper and lower corners rectoCollation
Structure uncertainSupport
ParchmentBinding
Modern parchment with vellum cordsLayout
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
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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- Text
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- URL
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- Text
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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
Images

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Decoration: Notation in pencil

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Decoration: Notation in pencil
Decoration: Print catalog clipping

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Section: Calendar (September-December lacking)
Decoration: Notation in ink

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Section: Biblical Psalter (Psalms 1-10 and part of 11 lacking), followed by Twelve Ferial Canticles, Litany, and prayers

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Decoration: Illuminated initial D

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Decoration: Zoomorphic initial D

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Decoration: Zoomorphic initial D

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Decoration: Zoomorphic initial E

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Decoration: Illuminated initial C

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Decoration: Manicule

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Decoration: Illuminated initial D

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Decoration: Notation in pencil

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Decoration: Notation in pencil
Decoration: Print catalog clipping

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