Psalter, [circa 1275-1299].

Description

Title: Psalter, [circa 1275-1299].
Abstract: Manuscript, on parchment, in Gothic script, produced in Flanders during the fourth quarter of the thirteenth century
Description: In Latin, French, and Middle English.
Decorations include a half-page initial on f. 43r (six other half-page initials have been cut from the manuscript) and illustrations of the labors of the months in the calendar.
The back flyleaf has, in two fourteenth century hands, a French song "Une bon chanson ay troue" and a Middle English carol "Mayde and moder, glade thou be."
On the calendar page for December, St. Thomas of Canterbury's name has been erased from its place, indicating English ownership at least in the sixteenth century.
Binding: dark brown calf skin over pasteboards (sixteenth or seventeenth century).
Provenance: Bequest of James M. Osborn, 1976.
Extent: 1 14 cm. x 10 cm. v. (157 ff.)
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Texts
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Name): Catholic Church.
Subject (Topic): Catholic Church
Liturgy
Psalters
Subjects: Catholic Church
Catholic Church > Liturgy > Texts
Psalters
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Psalter. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.