[Ferial Psalter].

Description

Title: [Ferial Psalter].
Alternative Title: Psalterium Davidicum ad usam Anglicanum, cum antiphonis et hymnis ecclesiae, calalendario, et Officio Defunctorum
Creator: Catholic Church
Published / Created: [between 1400 and 1450]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of a ferial psalter containing a calendar, a psalter with hymns and antiphons, canticles, a litany, and the Office of the Dead
Description: In Latin.
Six leaves containing Psalms 24-25, 51-52, 110-112 are missing.
Includes musical notation for the antiphons; neumes on red four-line staff.
Script: copied in northern gothica textualis formata (textus rotundus) with English features.
Decoration: rubrics in red (rare); red or blue paragraph marks. Red stroking of majuscules. Alternately red and blue versals; brown or grey cadels, often decorated with a grotesque human face; numerous 2-line dentelle initials; large foliate initials on ff. 7v, 52r, 63v, 74v; these are accompanied by three-margins left floral borders.
Binding: early binding; undecorated brown leather over wooden boards.
Extent: [124] ms. leaves : 21 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval England 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: music ;
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Catholic Church
Subject (Topic): Liturgy
Psalters
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Catholic Church > Liturgy
Psalters
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
England > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Ferial Psalter. Music Deposit, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.