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Title

Castle Liturgical Psalter

Other related names

• Castle, Ethelinda Schaefer, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 37
(Bryn Mawr, United States, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College Library)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/ms37.shtml

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Spain

Summary

This is a late sixteenth-century Spanish liturgical psalter. It contains the Psalms of the Sunday Office of Matins through None with antiphons and responses throughout the year. There is musical notation for the Te Deum and for the Hymns, antiphons, and responses at Prime and Terce.

Notes

• Foliation in brown ink skipped for fol. 115; fols. 115-118 corrected underneath in pencil
   
• Text very worn and much repaired with large sections of text replaced with newer leaves; many places patched with newer pieces of parchment
   

Extent

118; 455 x 325 mm bound to 495 x 350 mm

Foliation

Contemporary foliation in red, in upper right corner, recto, mostly lost or obliterated due to repairs and rubbing; later foliation in brown ink in either lower right or lower left corner, recto

Collation

1 (10, -2 -8), 2-5 (8), 6 (4), 7-9 (8), 10 (10, -8), 11-14 (8), 15 (10, -1)

Support

Parchment

Binding

Contemporary brown leather cover boards, edges covered with nailed-on, now-rusted iron; brass boss centered on back and front cover; two rusted iron clasps on front and back, with fasteners missing

Layout

Single column, eighteen lines, each line of text with double rulings: a pair of lines, in lead, enclosing the body of the text, centered between a second pair of lines ruled in ink; double vertical and horizontal bounding lines in ink as well as double vertical bounding lines in lead; leaves with musical notation: single column, six lines of five-line staves, with vertical bounding lines in hardpoint or lead; written area: 402 x 230 mm

Decoration

One five-line initial beginning the text and smaller simple initials in red marking sections throughout; staves in red with square, black neumes; rubrication throughout; guide letters for rubricator visible inside or beside most initials

Script

Gothic -- textualis

Written by multiple scribes

Provenance

• Written in Spain in the last part of the sixteenth century; unidentified catalogue entry (no. 63) glued to inside front cover; early provenance unknown; given to Bryn Mawr College in 1972 in the bequest of Ethelinda Schaefer Castle
   

Genres

• Psalters

Keywords

• Psalter
• 16th century
• Christian
• Spanish
• Spain
• Musical notation
• Liturgy

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Psalter; incipit: Adoremus Dominum qui fecit nos; explicit: Versus. loquebantur variis linguis apostoli, alleluia. Resp. Magna

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Unidentified catalogue entry (no. 63) glued in
• fol. 1v — Five-line red initial A
• fol. 6r — Six-line red initial B
• fol. 69r — Six-line red initial D
• fol. 88v — Six-line red initial L
• fol. 107v — Six-line red initial M