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

Title

Psalter

Other related names

• 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 184
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1583244
• deRicci: 22

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin; German

Origin

Place

France

Summary

This fragment of a thirteenth-century Psalter begins with Psalm 75, verse 8, continuing to Psalm 78, verse 1, and then reading from Psalm 79, verse 12 to Psalm 97, verse 1, and finally from Psalm 99, verse 6 to Psalm 103, verse 1.

Notes

• Marginal notes in Latin and in a northern German dialect
   
• Fragmentary; pages excised from manuscript; stubs between fols. 4 and 5, 14 and 15, and two stubs after final folio (between fols. 14-15: stub with edge of illuminated initial visible); pages have been trimmed; right third of fol. 12 is trimmed
   

Extent

V+16+v; 197 x 130 mm bound to 202 x 146 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; bound catalog entry between folios four and five not included in foliation

Collation

1 (9, -5 +6), 2 (8), 3 (4)

Support

Parchment

Binding

Early twentieth-century half brown morocco; stamped in gold on spine: PSALMS (FRAGMENT) XIII. CENTURY MS.

Layout

One column of twenty-two lines, ruled in brown ink; written area: 152 x 108 mm

Decoration

Two illuminated initials; three- and one-line red decorated initials throughout

Script

Protogothic

Provenance

• John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia (note written in Lewis's hand on f. 1r: "Fragment XIII century Psalms 75-77, 79 [pro parte] 80-95, 98 [pro parte] 99-101; 2 initials in colours, 16 leaves, in quarto;" catalog entry bound in between leaves four and five); 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. 22.
• 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 Free Library, 1937), p. 199, no. 184.

Keywords

• Psalter
• 13th century
• French
• Fragment
• Illumination
• France
• Gloss
• Devotion
• Liturgy
• Scripture

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Psalm 75, Verse 8 (beginning lacking) to Psalm 78, Verse 1 (end lacking)
• fol. 5r — Psalm 79, Verse 12 (beginning lacking) to Psalm 96, Verse 1 (end lacking)
• fol. 15r — Psalm 98, Verse 6 (beginning lacking) to Psalm 102, Verse 2 (end lacking)

Decorations

• fol. 5r — Decorated initial E
• Stub recto — Edge of illuminated initial
• fol. 15v — Decorated initial E