Carthusian Psalter with Canticles and Creed

Description

Title: Carthusian Psalter with Canticles and Creed
Published / Created: [ca. 1550]
Publication Place: Germany
Abstract: Manuscript, on parchment, incomplete, of a Carthusian psalter with the Canticles and the Creed, with musical notation
Description: In Latin.
Incomplete. Text ends with Psalm 77.
Layout: single columns of 24 lines.
Script: large gothic script.
Decoration: smaller initial in alternate red and blue; 12 historiated initials; full illuminated border to one page with figures of Carthusian monks and an abbot.
Binding: contemporary pigskin over wooden boards; metal clasps, corner pieces and central bosses.
Provenance: Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Extent: 1 volume (77 leaves) : 635 mm x 419 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval Germany 16th century
Manuscripts, Renaissance Germany 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Germany
Subject (Name): Catholic Church
Carthusians.
Subject (Topic): Liturgy
Prayers and devotions
Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Renaissance
Psalters
Subjects: Catholic Church > Liturgy
Catholic Church > Prayers and devotions
Carthusians
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Manuscripts, Renaissance > Connecticut > New Haven
Psalters
Psalters > Germany > Early works to 1800
Germany > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Takamiya, Toshiyuki > Ownership

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Citation: Carthusian Psalter with Canticles and Creed (Takamiya MS 11). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.