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/)
• Gay, Emile, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 187
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1583247
• deRicci: 23

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Northern France?
Flanders?

Notes

• Marginal notation from later readers throughout
   
• Psalms 1-148 numbered in a later hand
   
• Eighteenth-century printed prayers and litany on front and back end papers
   

Extent

I+175+i; 113 x 85 mm bound to 120 x 87 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1-14 (12), 15 (7, +1)

Support

Parchment

Binding

Late 18th-century red morocco, gold stamped decoration on borders and spine; gilt edges; "PSALTERIUM" stamped on green morocco label on spine; marbled end papers

Layout

Frame-ruled in ink; one column of 18 lines; written area: 83 x 60 mm

Decoration

Three historiated initials; five-line puzzle initials in red and blue throughout; two-line pen-flourished initials in red and blue throughout; one-line initials in red or blue throughout; decorative line fillers in red or blue throughout

Script

Gothic--textualis

Provenance

• Unidentified 18th century armorial bookplate on inside of front cover; bookplate has the signature of Emile Gay and is dated 1821; on the verso of the front flyleaf is inscribed; "For Mr. Foggo with the kindest regards of his parishioner Caroline Countess Bouxhoevden, April 16th 1856" and "presented to W.W. Wiltbank Esqr. Octr 9th 1893." "XIII century" also written in pencil in Lewis's hand on the verso of the front flyleaf and again at the top of 1r
   

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. 2019, no. 23
• 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. 206, no. 187.

Keywords

• Psalter
• 13th century
• Christian
• Gothic
• Historiated initial
• Puzzle initial
• France
• Flanders
• Devotion

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Psalter
• fol. 156v — Canticles
• fol. 169r — Athanasian Creed
• fol. 171v — Litany and collects

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate
• Inside front cover — Signature, Emile Gay
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Notation, "For Mr. Foggo with the kindest regards of his parishioner Caroline Countess Bouxhoevden, April 16 th 1856"; and "presented to W. W. Wiltbank Esqr. Octr 9 th 1893."
• fol. 1r — Ten line historiated initial, initial B, King David and the Holy Spirit
• fol. 24r — Five line decorated initial D
• fol. 27v — Five line decorated initial D
• fol. 53r — Sixteen line historiated initial Q, Archangel slaying dragon
• fol. 53v — Six line decorated initial D
• fol. 85v — Five line decorated initial E
• fol. 105r — Ten line historiated initial, Initial D, Pope giving benediction
• fol. 121r — Five line decorated initial D
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Notation, "For Mr. Foggo with the kindest regards of his parishioner Caroline Countess Bouxhoevden, April 16 th 1856"; and "presented to W. W. Wiltbank Esqr. Octr 9 th 1893."