Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Psalter

Other related names

• Jackson, Johan C., former owner
• Campbell, Alexander, Sir, former owner
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 181
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1457698
• deRicci: 20
• Leaves-of-gold: 12

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Flanders

Summary

This manuscript is a Gallican psalter, followed by Canticles, the Athanasian Creed, a litany, and the Office of the Dead. Copied in textualis in Flanders in the mid-thirteenth century, it is extensively illuminated with small inhabited initials with busts and three-quarter borders with abstract vegetal motifs characteristic of the Tweede group of manuscripts from the Ghent-Bruges region of Flanders. A single leaf was added at the beginning with a modern full-page illuminated incipit of the beginning of Psalm 1, "Beatus vir."

Notes

• Fourteenth-century cursive inscriptions in Flemish in the lower margins on fols. 11v, 29v, 62r, 62v, 64v, 79v, 100v, 104r and 149r
   
• Quires from fols. 97r-109v are loose, and fols. 110r-115v are partially detached
   
• Folio 1v: modern forgery, Beatus initial with David playing the harp and David and Goliath; NY: PML MS M. 97, (folio 24v) the 13th century Psalter-Hours on which this forgery was based, was in the collections of William Morris (1834-1896) and Richard Bennett (1844-1900) in the nineteenth century; it was given to the Pierpont Morgan Library in 1924; see http://corsair.morganlibrary.org
   
• Paper flyleaves
   

Extent

I+198+ii; 127 x 95 mm bound to 132 x 102 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto and lower right recto

Collation

Structure uncertain

Support

Parchment

Binding

Nineteenth-century English green morocco, gilt tooled and blind-stamped; gilt edges

Layout

One column of seventeen lines; lead point ruling; written area: 75 x 55 mm

Decoration

One full-page initial (a modern forgery, Beatus initial with David playing the harp and David and Goliath, fol. 1v); five eleven-line historiated and inhabited initials, fol. 25v (Psalm 26), fol. 43v (Psalm 38), fol. 60r (Psalm 51), fol. 61r (Psalm 52), and fol. 76v (Psalm 68); four-line historiated and inhabited initials with busts throughout; three-quarter borders with zoomorphic terminals throughout; the abstracted vegetal motifs in the border decoration are characteristic of the "Tweede" group of manuscripts produced in the Ghent-Bruges region of Flanders, or modern-day Belgium

Script

Gothic--textualis

Provenance

• "Johan C. Jackson 1853" written above the text on folio 2; "Sir Alexander Campbell 1883-4" on verso of front flyleaf; E. H. Van Ingen; sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, November 25, 1897, lot 117, illus.; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

Related resources

• De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2028, no. 20.
• Free Library of Philadelphia, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (Philadelphia: The Library, 1937), p. 195-196, no. 181.

Keywords

• Psalter
• 13th century
• Flemish
• Illumination
• Inhabited initial
• Historiated initial
• Flanders
• Liturgy
• Biblical

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Gallican Psalter
• fol. 170v — Canticles
• fol. 187r — Athanasian Creed
• fol. 190r — Litany
• fol. 192r — Office of the Dead

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Full-page illuminated incipit, Beatus vir, historiated initial B, David playing the harp; David and Goliath
• fol. 2r — Inhabited initial Q, a man
• fol. 3r — Inhabited initial D, a nun
• fol. 3v — Historiated initial C, Virgin Mary
• fol. 4r — Inhabited initial U, a man
• fol. 5r — Inhabited initial D, King David
• fol. 6r — Inhabited initial D, Virgin Mary
• fol. 7r — Inhabited initial D, a saint
• fol. 7v — Inhabited initial C, a saint
• fol. 10v — Inhabited initial S, two men
• fol. 11v — Inhabited initial A, a man
• fol. 12r — Historiated initial D, Saint Peter
• fol. 12v — Inhabited initial D, a saint
• fol. 13v — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 14r — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 18r — Inhabited initial C, a saint
• fol. 19r — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 20r — Inhabited initial D, a saint
• fol. 21r — Inhabited initial O, a saint
• fol. 23r — Inhabited initial D, a saint
• fol. 23v — Inhabited initial D, a man
• fol. 25v — Historiated initial D, Jesus with altar, chalice, and host
• fol. 27r — Inhabited initial A, a monk preparing parchment
• fol. 28r — Inhabited initial A, a saint
• fol. 28v — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 31v — Illuminated initial B
• fol. 32v — Inhabited initial E, a nun
• fol. 34r — Inhabited initial B, a monk
• fol. 38r — Inhabited initial O, a monk
• fol. 39r — Inhabited initial N, a man
• fol. 41v — Historiated initial D, Jesus
• fol. 43v — Historiated initial D, Jesus with altar and chalice
• fol. 45r — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 47r — Historiated initial B, Jesus
• fol. 48r — Inhabited initial O, a saint
• fol. 49v — Inhabited initial D, a man
• fol. 51v — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 53r — Inhabited initial D, a nun
• fol. 54r — Historiated initial O, Jesus with two apostles
• fol. 54v — Historiated initial A, Jesus
• fol. 55v — Inhabited initial A, a nun
• fol. 57r — Historiated initial D, Jesus
• fol. 58v — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 60r — Historiated initial Q, Jesus confronts a devil
• fol. 61r — Inhabited initial D, Fool with a club and bread
• fol. 62r — Inhabited initial D, a man
• fol. 62v — Inhabited initial E, a monk
• fol. 64v — Inhabited initial M, nun and a man
• fol. 65v — Inhabited initial M, a saint(?)
• fol. 66r — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 67r — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 68r — Illuminated initial N
• fol. 69r — Inhabited initial D, saint(?)
• fol. 69v — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 70v — Inhabited initial D, a nun
• fol. 73r — Inhabited initial D, a monk
• fol. 73v — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 76v — Historiated initial S, David raising his arms toward Christ
• fol. 79v — Historiated initial D, Virgin Mary
• fol. 82r — Inhabited initial D, a man
• fol. 83v — Inhabited initial Q, a monk
• fol. 85r — Inhabited initial U, a man
• fol. 87r — Inhabited initial C, a monk
• fol. 88r — Inhabited initial N, a saint
• fol. 89r — Inhabited initial U, a man
• fol. 90v — Inhabited initial A, a saint
• fol. 95v — Inhabited initial D, a man
• fol. 96v — Inhabited initial Q, a saint
• fol. 97v — Inhabited initial Q, a saint
• fol. 98r — Inhabited initial B, a saint
• fol. 100r — Inhabited initial F, a man
• fol. 100v — Inhabited initial D, a woman
• fol. 104r — Inhabited initial D, a saint
• fol. 105v — Inhabited initial Q, devil (?)
• fol. 106v — Illuminated initial B, a saint
• fol. 107v — Inhabited initial D, devil
• fol. 108r — Illuminated initial D, a saint
• fol. 109v — Inhabited initial U, a monk
• fol. 110r — Inhabited initial C, a monk
• fol. 111r — Inhabited initial D, a man
• fol. 112v — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 114v — Inhabited initial B, a saint
• fol. 116r — Inhabited initial B(?)
• fol. 118r — Inhabited initial C(?)
• fol. 121r — Inhabited initial C(?)
• fol. 124r — Inhabited initial C, a saint
• fol. 127r — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 129r — Inhabited initial C(?)
• fol. 129v — Inhabited initial B
• fol. 130r — Illuminated initial L
• fol. 132v — Inhabited initial D, two nuns
• fol. 133r — Historiated initial C, King David(?)
• fol. 133v — Inhabited initial C, a nun
• fol. 135v — Inhabited initial B, a saint
• fol. 136v — Illuminated initial R
• fol. 137r — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 137v — Illuminated initial L
• fol. 138r — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 138v — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 139r — Inhabited initial P, a saint
• fol. 139v — Inhabited initial B, a saint
• fol. 140v — Inhabited initial N(?)
• fol. 141r — Inhabited initial D, a woman
• fol. 142r — Inhabited initial Q, a saint
• fol. 142v — Inhabited initial L, a man
• fol. 143v — Illuminated initial F
• fol. 144r — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 145r — Inhabited initial C, a man
• fol. 145v — Inhabited initial U, a saint
• fol. 146r — Inhabited initial P, a saint
• fol. 146v — Inhabited initial D, a man
• fol. 147v — Inhabited initial A, a nun
• fol. 148r — Illuminated initial L
• fol. 148v — Illuminated initial L
• fol. 149r — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 149v — Inhabited initial N, a saint
• fol. 150r — Inhabited initial Q, a saint
• fol. 151r — Inhabited initial N, a saint
• fol. 151v — Inhabited initial B, a saint
• fol. 152r — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 152v — Inhabited initial D, a saint
• fol. 153r — Inhabited initial D, a saint
• fol. 153v — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 154v — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 155r — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 155r — Illuminated initial L
• fol. 156v — Inhabited initial C, a saint
• fol. 157v — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 158r — Inhabited initial C, a nun
• fol. 159r — Inhabited initial D, a saint
• fol. 160v — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 161v — Inhabited initial D, a saint
• fol. 162v — Inhabited initial D, a saint
• fol. 163v — Illuminated initial B
• fol. 164v — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 166v — Illuminated initial L
• fol. 167r — Illuminated initial L
• fol. 168r — Illuminated initial L
• fol. 168v — Inhabited initial L, a nun
• fol. 169v — Inhabited initial D, a monk
• fol. 170r — Illuminated initial L
• fol. 170v — Inhabited initial C, a saint
• fol. 171r — Inhabited initial E, a monk
• fol. 172r — Inhabited initial E, a man
• fol. 173v — Inhabited initial C, a saint
• fol. 175r — Inhabited initial D, a man
• fol. 177v — Inhabited initial A, a man
• fol. 182r — Inhabited initial D, a man
• fol. 183v — Inhabited initial B, a saint
• fol. 185r — Inhabited initial B, a man
• fol. 186r — Inhabited initial N, a monk
• fol. 186v — Inhabited initial N, a nun
• fol. 187r — Inhabited initial Q, a saint
• fol. 190r — Inhabited initial R, king David
• fol. 192r — Inhabited initial P, nude male(?)
• fol. 192v — Inhabited initial P, a man
• fol. 193v — Inhabited initial D, a man
• fol. 194r — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 195r — Inhabited initial R, a saint
• fol. 195v — Inhabited initial H, a man
• fol. 196r — Illuminated initial Q
• fol. 197r — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 197v — Inhabited initial P, a man
• fol. 198v — Inhabited initial P, a man
• fol. 198v — Illuminated initial D, a nun