The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
Ferial psalter, containing the psalms divided into eight sections: seven for the psalms for matins through the week and the eighth containing all the psalms for vespers, accompanied by indications of invitatories, antiphons, hymns, short chapter readings, and concluding with canticles, a litany and prayers. The eight sections are marked with illumination or penwork. The psalter is preceded by antiphons and hymns added in the 16th century and a 14th-century liturgical calendar including the feast day of Saint Vigilius, Bishop of Trent, and 17th-century entries for the deaths of members of the community of the abbey of Saint Walburga.
Support: parchment; Extent: 272 leaves : 116 x 75 (80 x 55) mm bound to 125 x 95 mm; Collation: Parchment and paper, 272; 1⁶ 2-22¹² 23⁶; quires 3-23 signed i-xxii in red on last verso, except quire 18 (xvi), where the lower margin of the last leaf has been repaired; [1-10; 10-271]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto, with two leaves marked 10; the foliation references in this record use the pencil foliation as it appears in the manuscript.
Written in 16 long lines (psalter).
Calendar and main text written in a Gothic hand; first quire of antiphons and hymns, additions to calendar, and marginalia in later hands.
Two historiated initials with painted initials with white tracery and painted ascenders and descenders with grotesques in the margins (ff. 15v, 182v); four 4- to 6-line painted initials in blue and red with openwork foliate motifs, decorated with red and blue penwork and grotesques (ff. 46v, 106r, 132v, 156v); two 2- to 3- line painted initials with red and blue penwork (ff. 67r, 86r); numerous 1- and 2- line initials alternating between red and blue; rubrics in red; handcolored engraving of St. Christopher pasted onto front pastedown.
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
6. ff.248r-252v: Litany.
7. ff.252v-271v: Prayers and hymns.
5. ff.245r-248r: Athanasian creed.
4. ff.229v-245r: Canticles.
3. ff.14r-229r: Ferial psalter.
2. ff.9r-13v: Calendar with 17th-century necrology.
1. ff.1r-8v: Antiphons and hymns added in the 16th century.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Trento (Italy)
Probably written in Trento (based on liturgical calendar), circa 1350.
Late 16th-century blind-stamped pigskin with two brass clasps.
Latin, with later additions in German
Sold by Les Enluminures (Chicago & Paris), 2007.
Trento (Italy)
Probably written in Trento (based on liturgical calendar), circa 1350.
Latin, with later additions in German
Sold by Les Enluminures
Ferial psalter, containing the psalms divided into eight sections: seven for the psalms for matins through the week and the eighth containing all the psalms for vespers, accompanied by indications of invitatories, antiphons, hymns, short chapter readings, and concluding with canticles, a litany and prayers. The eight sections are marked with illumination or penwork. The psalter is preceded by antiphons and hymns added in the 16th century and a 14th-century liturgical calendar including the feast day of Saint Vigilius, Bishop of Trent, and 17th-century entries for the deaths of members of the community of the abbey of Saint Walburga.
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
6. ff.248r-252v: Litany.
7. ff.252v-271v: Prayers and hymns.
5. ff.245r-248r: Athanasian creed.
4. ff.229v-245r: Canticles.
3. ff.14r-229r: Ferial psalter.
2. ff.9r-13v: Calendar with 17th-century necrology.
1. ff.1r-8v: Antiphons and hymns added in the 16th century.
Calendar and main text written in a Gothic hand; first quire of antiphons and hymns, additions to calendar, and marginalia in later hands.
Two historiated initials with painted initials with white tracery and painted ascenders and descenders with grotesques in the margins (ff. 15v, 182v); four 4- to 6-line painted initials in blue and red with openwork foliate motifs, decorated with red and blue penwork and grotesques (ff. 46v, 106r, 132v, 156v); two 2- to 3- line painted initials with red and blue penwork (ff. 67r, 86r); numerous 1- and 2- line initials alternating between red and blue; rubrics in red; handcolored engraving of St. Christopher pasted onto front pastedown.
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Clear All
