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

Title

Psalter, glossed

Other related names

• Dore, J. R. (John Read), former owner (https://viaf.org/viaf/42208958)
• 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 188
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1583248
• deRicci: 24

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Germany

Summary

This manuscript, written on paper in Germany, is a glossed psalter which has had other devotional texts added to it. The psalter itself, which has marginal and interlinear glosses, is written in Gothic cursive and has a colophon dating it to the 1430s [fol. 125r]. The psalms are followed by the Canticles, in the same hand but mostly without glosses. Slightly later additions in hybrida script at the beginning and end of the volume, before and after the Psalms and Canticles, include prefatory material for the Book of Psalms, arguments (or synopses) of some psalms, prayers for the Office, sermons on the Virgin, and standard prayers such as the Pater Noster and the Apostles' Creed.

Notes

• Water damage in upper corner of all leaves has obscured some of the text
   
• Second front endpaper is glued to the recto of the first leaf of the manuscript, completely covering it
   

Watermark

Multiple watermarks, including one similar to Briquet Tête de boeuf 14515 (surmounted by cross, Brünn, 1432, fol. 79); one similar to Briquet Tête de boeuf 14752 (surmounted by a seven-petaled flower, 1429, Würzburg, fol. 110); and one somewhat similar to Briquet Tête de boeuf 14718, 14724, 14726 (surmounted by a five-petaled power, 1436-37, Tyrol, 1453 and 1454, Brescia, fol. 135)

Extent

I+154+i; 305 x 207 mm bound to 310 x 225 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper center recto

Collation

1 (4, +1 +2 +3 +4), 2 (16), 3-5 (12), 6 (14), 7-11 (12), 12-13 (10), 14 (5, +1 +2 -3 +3 +4 +5)

Support

Paper

Catchwords

One horizontal catchword in ink, lower right last verso (fol. 106v)

Binding

Eighteenth-century calf over spine; front joint cracked; leather of joints damaged at head of spine; old wooden boards; gilt title label on spine, Psalterium Davidis

Layout

Psalms written in ten to thirteen lines of psalm text, with interlinear and marginal glosses; box-ruled in brown ink; prickings visible; written area: 150 x 225 mm

Decoration

Colors other than red mostly seem to be later additions, including one small illustration of David with crown and harp (fol. 5v) and a large decorated B at the beginning of the Psalms (fol 6r); two-line red initials and initials stroked with red throughout; some marginal lemmata stroked with red

Script

Gothic--cursiva

Hybrida

Colophon

"... anno domini ab incarnatione domini nostri Ihesu Christi milesimo quadrigentesimo trecesimo [?] in vigilia beate marie magdalene ... est finis huius operis" [fol. 125r]

Provenance

• John Read Dore (1831-1895) of Huddersfield, author of Old Bibles: an account of the early versions of the English Bible, and a chemist; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; notes written in a nineteenth-century hand and pasted into the front cover and describing the manuscript's contents begin, "Mr. Dore's Ms. Psalter;" catalog entry pasted onto inside of front cover and on the inside of the back cover; bookplate of John Frederick Lewis attached to recto of front endpaper
   

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. 24.
• 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. 207, no. 188.

Keywords

• Psalter
• Commentary
• 15th century
• German
• Colophon
• Gloss
• Germany
• Prayer book
• Devotion
• Watermark

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Office of the Virgin
• fol. 5v — Preface
• fol. 6r — Glossed psalter
• fol. 125v — Canticles
• fol. 134v — Te Deum
• fol. 135r — The Lord's Prayer
• fol. 135v — Apostles' Creed
• fol. 135v — Athanasian Creed (partial)
• fol. 136r — Jerome's preface to the Psalms
• fol. 137r — Psalm synopses
• fol. 142r — Sermons on the Virgin
• fol. 152r — Office of the Visitation of the Virgin

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Printed catalog entry
• Inside front cover — Handwritten note
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookplate, John Frederick Lewis
• fol. 5v — Small miniature, King David
• fol. 6r — Decorated initial B
• fol. 22r — Inhabited initial I
• fol. 80r — Decorated initial D
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookplate, John Frederick Lewis
• Inside back cover — Printed catalog entry