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Psalter and Hours
Title
Psalter and Hours.
Created
England, [between 1400 and 1415]
Physical Description
ff. i + 194 + i : parchment ; 123 x 83 (79 x 51) mm.
Language
English, Middle (1100-1500); Latin
Notes
Script: Written in small, well formed gothic bookhand.
Five 6- to 5-line initials at the liturgical divisions of the Psalter (Psalms 26, 52, 68, 80, 97; initials for Psalms 1, 38, and 109 missing, offset initials on ff. 35v, 109r, and 156r), pink and blue with white highlights against cusped gold grounds, filled with brown, blue, and pink foliage with curling foliate serifs; pink, blue and gold bar border in outer margin with foliate shoots, terminals and horizontal extensions full across in upper and lower margins. Eleven 5- to 4-line initials (ff. 139v, 158v, 161r, 162r, 163r, 163v, 164r, 165v, 168r, 169v, 176v), gold, edged in black against a cusped ground, quartered in blue and pink, with white highlights and floral hair-spray. 3-line initials, blue with red penwork throughout. Capitals alternating red and blue. Rubrics throughout. Red and blue line-fillers in litany.
Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Brown leather case, blind-tooled. Red edges. Smells like a Middleton binding.
In Middle English and Latin.
Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Barbara Shailor.
Provenance
Purchased from Henry Fletcher in 1965 by Edwin J. and Frederick W. Beinecke, for the Beinecke Library.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Psalter in English, in the 8-part liturgical division, beginning defectively. Text is the later version of the Wycliffite translation of the Psalms. 2-7) Book of Hours, use of Sarum. 8) St. Jerome's Psalter, with introductory prayer and text followed by a suffrage to the Virgin. With Notes on Historia, Alegoria, Anagogia, Tropologia.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 02, 2011
References
Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 360.
Psalter and Hours. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Psalter and Hours. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - England - 15th century.
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