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

Title

Psalter

Other related names

• A follower of the Masters of the Golden Fleece, artist
• Master of Edward IV, active 1470-1490, artist (http://viaf.org/viaf/95690260)
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 182
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1542268
• deRicci: 26
• Leaves-of-gold: 13
• TELMA-Luxury-Bound: 2957

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin; Dutch, Flemish

Origin

Place

Flanders

Summary

This manuscript is a Gallican psalter made in Flanders circa 1470, probably for an English patron, based on the English saints in the calendar (Saint Cedd (October 26), Saint Cuthbert (March 20), and Saint Dunstan (May 19)) and the litany (Saint Swithun). The psalms are decorated with seven large illuminations by a follower of the Masters of the Golden Fleece and the canticles are decorated with twelve small miniatures by the Master of Edward IV. At the end of the volume, two leaves from two other, smaller manuscripts are tipped in. One leaf, containing the end of Psalm 10 and the beginning of Psalm 11, is from a manuscript from the first quarter of the fourteenth century (before fol. 165); the other, from a fifteenth-century Dutch book of hours, has text from the Office of the Dead, Use of Utrecht (after fol. 165).

Notes

• Flyleaves nineteenth-century paper
   

Extent

Iii+167+iii; 270 x 195 mm 190 x 122 mm 192 x 146 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (6), 2-6 (8), 7 (8, -7), 8-9 (8), 10 (9, +5), 11 (8), 12 (9, +9), 13-20 (8), 21 (8, +6 +8)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Vertical catchwords, lower right last verso

Binding

English, late nineteenth century; blind-tooled calf with gilt edges and gilt-lettered spine

Layout

One column of twenty-two lines, frame-ruled in red ink, written area: 160 x 115 mm (fols. 1-165); one leaf bound in (before fol. 165) with one column of sixteen lines, frame-ruled in brown ink, written area: 127 x 75 mm; one leaf bound in (after fol. 165) with one column of nineteen lines, frame-ruled in blue ink, written area: 88 x 64 mm

Decoration

In main manuscript (fols. 1-165): seven large arched miniatures in the Psalms by a follower of the Masters of the Golden Fleece, with elaborate gold borders and illuminated initials (fols. 7r, 27v, 41r, 65r, 81r, 96r, 112r), twelve small (seven-line) miniatures for the Canticles by the Master of Edward IV, small (one- or two-line) illuminated initials and line endings throughout; leaf tipped in before fol. 165: one two-line illuminated initial, several one-line initials, foliate bar border in outer margins; leaf tipped in after fol. 165: one illuminated initial with illuminated bar border with foliate spray in outer margin on front (true recto)

Script

Bâtarde

Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata

Provenance

• Wilfrid Michael Voynich (bookseller), London; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia, 1915; 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. 2029, no. 26.
• 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), pp. 196-198, no. 182.
• TELMA-Luxury Bound: A corpus of manuscripts illustrated in the Netherlands (1400-1550) (http://www.cn-telma.fr/luxury-bound/manuscrit2957/)
• Harrsen, Meta, "Mediaeval and Renaissance Miniatures in the John Frederick Lewis Collection in Philadelphia," Scriptorium, vol. 14 (1960), p. 78.
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections, edited by James R. Tanis (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001), pp. 58-59, no. 13.
• J. Paul Getty Museum, Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe, exhibit catalog by Thomas Kren and Scot McKendrick (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2004), p. 264 (as the Pembroke Hours).
• King'oo, Clare Costley, Miserere Mei: The Penitential Psalms in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame, 2012), p. 136. (f. 7r)

Keywords

• Psalter
• 15th century
• Flemish
• Flanders
• Devotion
• Illumination

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Calendar
• fol. 7r — Gallican Psalter
• fol. 144r — Canticles
• fol. 157v — Litany
• fol. 162r — Collects
• Insert i recto — Leaf from a Psalter containing Psalms 10 and 11.
• Insert ii recto — Leaf from the Office of the Dead, Use of Utrecht

Decorations

• Flyleaf 3 verso — Written in pencil "182"
• fol. 7r — Large miniature, David praying to God
• fol. 7r — Decorated initial B
• fol. 27v — Large miniature, David pointing to his eye
• fol. 27v — Decorated initial D
• fol. 41r — Large miniature, David pointing to his mouth
• fol. 41r — Decorated initial D
• fol. 65r — Large miniature, David in the watery deep
• fol. 65r — Decorated initial S
• fol. 81r — Large miniature, David playing the bells
• fol. 81r — Decorated initial E
• fol. 96r — Large miniature, Tonsured clerics singing before David
• fol. 96r — Decorated initial C
• fol. 112r — Large miniature, Enthroned Trinity with the Devil as a footstool
• fol. 112r — Decorated initial D
• fol. 144r — Small miniature, Prophet Isaiah
• fol. 144v — Small miniature, King Hezekiah
• fol. 145v — Small miniature, Prophet Anna
• fol. 146r — Small miniature, Moses with tablets and two other figures
• fol. 147v — Small miniature, Prophet Habakkuk
• fol. 149r — Small miniature, Moses praying to God
• fol. 152r — Small miniature, Three Hebrews in the fiery furnace
• fol. 153r — Small miniature, Prophet Zechariah
• fol. 153v — Small miniature, Visitation
• fol. 154r — Small miniature, Presentation in the Temple
• fol. 154v — Small miniature, Saint Augustine and Saint Ambrose
• fol. 155v — Small miniature, Saint Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria
• fol. 165r — Notes in pencil
• Flyleaf 3 verso — Written in pencil "182"