Psalter (incomplete).

Description

Title: Psalter (incomplete).
Published / Created: [between 1450 and 1499]
Publication Place: Germany
Abstract: Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, containing an incomplete Psalter with six illuminated initials. Supposedly created and used by a German nun in the last half of the fifteenth century, it has been considered an example of Nonnenarbeiten
Description: In Latin.
Engraved portrait bookplate? on front pastedown of Gerardus, dux Juliæ et Montium, Comes Ravensburgæ, Fundator ordinis anno 1444.
Layout: single columns of 14 lines.
Script: gothic bookhand.
Decoration: Rubricated. Some banners with texts in margins. Six illuminated initials with gold or silver decoration: decorated silver initial (3v); birds, silver decoration (14v); Jonah, gold decoration (24v); monk with textual banner, gold decoration (35v); Virgin Mary and child, textual banner, gold decoration (43r); animal blowing instrument, silver decoration (50v); trumpeter, textual banner, gold decoration (80v).
Binding: modern.
Provenance: Purchased from R. A. van der Graven on the John W. Corwith Memorial Fund, 2014.
Extent: 81 l. : 120 x 90 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Germany 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Germany.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Nuns
Books and reading
Nuns as artists
Psalters
Subjects: Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Nuns > Books and reading > Germany
Nuns as artists > Germany
Psalters
Germany > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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