Collection ID: 0006 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Psalter

Other related names

• Leigh, Thomas, -1848, former owner
• Probert, Charles K., 1820-1887, former owner
• Harris, J. Rendel (James Rendel), 1852-1941, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/34585917)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Rendel Harris 42
(Haverford, United States, Haverford College, Quaker & Special Collections, Rendel Harris)

Alternate identifiers

• https://archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/repositories/5/archival_objects/24169

Publisher

Quaker & Special Collections

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

England?

Summary

This manuscript is a psalter, probably copied in England in the fifteenth century. It is simply decorated throughout with small illuminated initials and penwork decoration in the margins. It had more elaborate pages with illuminated borders at major divisions, but only one of these is still present in the manuscript (fol. 40r), with at least twelve leaves having been removed (after fols. 5, 26, 52, 65, 81, 94, 109, 122, 152, 156), including the first two leaves of the Psalter after the calendar. The first leaf of the manuscript, containing the calendar pages for January and February, is also missing. The calendar is for Sarum before the introduction of the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus (late fifteenth century). The Psalms are in numerical order and are followed by antiphons, versicles, and responses for devotional use. Later readers added Psalm numbers (1-109, 1010-1050) and minor corrections in the margins. The Psalms are followed by the Canticles, the Athanasian Creed, a Litany, and several prayers in the same script as the Psalter. The beginning of the Office of the Dead is written in another hand on the final leaves of the volume (fols. 169v-170v). The parchment pastedowns have part of Psalm 2, all of Psalm 3, and part of Psalm 4 written on them in a cursive hand from the seventeenth century or later, with the nineteenth-century inscription of former owner Charles K. Probert written over that text on the front pastedown.

Extent

170; 105 x 70 mm bound to 110 x 75 mm

Foliation

Occasional modern foliation in pencil, 1-11, 21, 31, etc., upper right recto; foliation does not reflect missing leaves

Collation

1 (6, -1), 2 (8, -1 -2), 3 (8), 4 (8, -8), 5-7 (8), 8 (8, -3), 9 (8), 10 (8, -1), 11 (8), 12 (8, -2), 13 (8, -8), 14 (8), 15 (8, -8), 16 (8, -1 -2), 17 (7, +7), 18 (8, -1), 19-20 (8), 21 (8, -8), 22 (8, -5), 23 (11, +2)

Signatures

Quires 16, 17, 21, and 23 are signed 15 (fol. 110r), 16 (fol. 116r), 2 (trimmed 20, fol. 146r), and 22 (fol. 160r); the first quire, containing the calendar, probably was not signed or counted

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal, lower center last verso, simply framed in red ink

Binding

Brown velvet over wood boards

Layout

One column of nineteen lines; frame-ruled in ink with double horizontal bounding lines; pricking visible on some leaves (for example, fols. 53-57); written area: 63 x 40 mm

Decoration

One page with an illuminated border in gold, blue, pink, and green, and a five-line illuminated initial in pink and blue on gold ground (fol. 40r), other similar decorated pages marking major divisions having been removed from the manuscript; a small number of four- and five-line initials mark divisions with the Psalms and the beginning of the Canticles (fols. 96r, 119v, penwork decorations in the outer margins of all pages in red, blue, purple, and occasionally green (fols. 77r, 130r, 139v) ink, with gold dots and bars; two-line initial in gold with purple flourishing at the beginning of the first verse of each psalm; one-line initials at the beginning of subsequent verses alternate between blue flourished with red and gold flourished with purple; rubrication in red

Script

Gothic--textura

Provenance

• Gift of Rev. Thomas Leigh to Charles K. Probert, Newport, Essex (inscription, inside front cover); gift of J. Rendel Harris
   

Keywords

• Psalter
• Prayer book
• 15th century
• English
• England
• Missing leaves

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Calendar (March-December)
• fol. 6r — Psalter (beginning in Psalms 4:6)
• fol. 139v — Canticles
• fol. 150v — Athanasian Creed
• fol. 152v — Litany
• fol. 154v — Prayers
• fol. 169v — Office of the Dead

Decorations

• fol. 40r — Illuminated border
• fol. 40r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 96r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 119v — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 139v — Illuminated initial C