Psalter

Description

Title: Psalter
Published / Created: [1475-1499]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript, on parchment, in at least two hands, containing the text of the psalter, preceded by prayers and a calendar, and followed by canticles and a litany. The calendar is very detailed and includes dates of various English battles, the latest of which is the battle of Dunkirk (1483).
Description: In Latin; a few notes in the calendar in Middle English.
Note concerning the probable date of the volume in Latin, in a later hand (9v.)
Layout: single columns of 21 lines.
Script: rounded gothic liturgical script.
Decoration: Rubricated. Small initials throughout in red and blue with contrasting penwork; seven large illuminated initials with two-sided borders; large illuminated initial on the first leaf of the text of the Psalter.
Binding: contemporary binding of reversed skin over bevelled wooden boards; sewn on five double bands. Remains of clasps on the front board.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Alan G. Thomas. Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Extent: 207 leaves : 224 mm x 160 mm
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: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
England
Subject (Name): Catholic Church
Subject (Topic): Liturgy
Prayers and devotions
Manuscripts, Medieval
Psalters
Subjects: Catholic Church > Liturgy
Catholic Church > Prayers and devotions
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Psalters
Psalters > England > Early works to 1800
England > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Takamiya, Toshiyuki > Ownership
Thomas, Alan G. > Ownership

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Citation: Psalter (Takamiya MS 47). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.