Psalter and Hours
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Description
- Title
- Psalter and Hours
- Published / Created
- [between 1400 and 1415]
- Publication Place
- England
- Abstract
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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
- Description
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In Middle English and Latin.
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. - Provenance
- Purchased from Henry Fletcher in 1965 by Edwin J. and Frederick W. Beinecke, for the Beinecke Library.
- Extent
- ff. i + 194 + i : 123 x 83 (79 x 51) mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Digitization Note
- Blank leaves 186v - 191v not digitized.
- Language
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English, Middle (1100-1500)
Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 360
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Prayers and devotions
Manuscripts, Medieval England 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- parchment ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
-
Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic)
-
Books of hours
Devotional literature, English (Middle)
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Psalters - Subjects
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Catholic Church > Prayers and devotions
Books of hours
Devotional literature, English (Middle)
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Psalters
England > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Psalter and Hours. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9782083
- Object ID (OID)
- 10269839
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