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Glossed psalter Ms. Codex 1058
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Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Manuscript Overview
References
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Abstract

The Book of Psalms with extensive, mostly unattributed, interlinear and marginal glosses, followed by canticles with glosses.

Physical Description

Support: parchment; Extent: 109 leaves : 134 x 90 (95 x 48) mm. bound to 141 x 100 mm; Collation: Parchment, 109; 1-3⁸ 4⁸(-4, no loss of text) 5-7⁸ 8⁸(-5, no loss of text) 9-10⁸ 11¹⁰(gathering of 8 with additional bifolium sewn in) 12⁸ 13¹³ (gathering of 8 with 5 single leaves sewn in); modern pencil foliation, lower right recto.

Layout

Psalms written in 22 lines, marginal glosses written in up to 58 lines; ruled in drypoint for psalms and glosses.

Script

Written in a late Carolingian minuscule; opening words of psalms and some headings in glosses in majuscules.

Decoration

Large (three-quarters page) opening initial (f. 1v) added ca. 1250, divided brown and red with penwork infill and surround in brown and red; initials and versal capitals added to early pages (ff. 2-16) in red, probably 13th c., otherwise left blank.

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.

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

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.

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Keywords
12th century
Psalter
Bible
Biblical
France
French
Gloss
Annotated
Commentary
History
University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

Place of Origin

Laon?, France

Date

Written in northern France, probably Laon, ca. 1100.

Binding

18th-century French calf gilt (Quaritch).

Language

Latin

Provenance

Rebound and given the title Lectionnaire (f. 1r) in France in the 18th century (Quaritch).

Sold at auction at Christie's, 2 June 1999, lot 33.

Offered at auction at Sotheby's, 7 December 2004, lot 34.

Sold by Bernard Quaritch Ltd., cat. 1348 (2007), no. 11.

return to search Glossed psalter Ms. Codex 1058

Place of Origin

Laon?, France

Date

Written in northern France, probably Laon, ca. 1100.

Language

Latin

Provenance

Rebound and given the title Lectionnaire

Sold at auction at Christie's, 2 June 1999, lot 33.

Offered at auction at Sotheby's, 7 December 2004, lot 34.

Sold by Bernard Quaritch Ltd., cat. 1348

Manuscript Overview

Abstract

The Book of Psalms with extensive, mostly unattributed, interlinear and marginal glosses, followed by canticles with glosses.

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Script note

Written in a late Carolingian minuscule; opening words of psalms and some headings in glosses in majuscules.

Decoration Note

Large (three-quarters page) opening initial (f. 1v) added ca. 1250, divided brown and red with penwork infill and surround in brown and red; initials and versal capitals added to early pages (ff. 2-16) in red, probably 13th c., otherwise left blank.

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.

References
Binding Images

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.

Spine

Keywords
12th century
Psalter
Bible
Biblical
France
French
Gloss
Annotated
Commentary
History
University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
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