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Calendar 1r - 6v;

    Biblical Psalter 7r - 173v;

    Illuminations (7)

    • Initial "B" with David beheading Goliath, and David as king playing harp fol. 7r
    • Initial "D" with David crowned by Samuel fol. 33r
    • Initial "D" with King David pointing to mouth before altar and face of God fol. 50r
    • Initial "D" with the fool eating a loaf fol. 65r
    • Initial "S" with King David orant, and Christ blessing fol. 81r
    • Initial "E" with King David playing bells fol. 101r
    • Initial "D" with Throne of Grace fol. 135r

    Weekly canticles 173v - 190v;

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      Illuminations (7)

      • Initial "B" with David beheading Goliath, and David as king playing harp
      • Initial "D" with David crowned by Samuel
      • Initial "D" with King David pointing to mouth before altar and face of God
      • Initial "D" with the fool eating a loaf
      • Initial "S" with King David orant, and Christ blessing
      • Initial "E" with King David playing bells
      • Initial "D" with Throne of Grace
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      Manuscript Overview
      References
      Bindings & Oddities

      Abstract

      This Psalter, dating to the last quarter of the thirteenth century, was made in French Flanders for use in the diocese of Metz. Originally part of a Psalter-Hours, the two parts of the book were separated long ago and bound separately in the eighteenth century. The Hours half has recently been identified by François Avril as belonging to the Bibliothèque nationale de France, where it is n.a. Lat. 915. The Psalter component is heavily decorated, containing historiated initials as well as borders and line fillers full of hybrid creatures and grotesques.

      Hand note

      Compressed textura, at times closer to quadrata or semi-quadrata; calendar and main text by two different hands

      Contributors

      Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.

      Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley

      Editor: Herbert, Lynley

      Copy editor: Dibble, Charles

      Contributor: Emery, Doug

      Contributor: Herbold, Rebekah

      Contributor: Noel, William

      Contributor: Schuele, Allyson

      Contributor: Sedovic, Katherine

      Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel

      Contributor: Toth, Michael B.

      Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber

      Conservator: Owen, Linda

      Conservator: Quandt, Abigail

      Bibliography

      De Ricci, Seymour, and W. J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935; p. 772, cat. no. 97.


      Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 1. France, 875-1420. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1989; pp. 86-88, cat. no. 37.


      Avril, Francois. "915 N.A.: Leroquais, Heures, II, 277-278." In Fichier bibliographique des manuscrits latins et grecs. Nal 770-1196. Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 2009; p. 343. Can be accessed at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1401374/f343.image.


      Doyle, Maeve. "The Portrait Potential: Gender, Identity, and Devotion in Manuscript Owner Portraits, 1230-1320." Ph.D. dissertation, Bryn Mawr College, 2015.


      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.

      Upper board outside

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      141bookmarkv

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      Head

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      Keywords
      Psalter
      French
      Historiated initial
      Inhabited initial
      France
      13th century
      Devotion
      Scripture
      Christian
      Flemish
      Flanders

      Origin Place

      Northeast France (Flanders at the time)

      Date

      Last quarter of the 13th century CE

      Form

      book

      Binding

      Non-original Binding

      Binding Description

      Rebound with brown speckled calf skin in France, second half of the eighteenth century; gilt tooling on spine with inscription "PSAUME DE DAVID"; page edges regilt and leather tabs affixed late nineteenth or early twentieth century

      Language

      The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.

      Provenance

      Created in northeastern France, last quarter of the thirteenth century, for use in the diocese of Metz; contents suggest original owner had Franciscan or Dominican affiliation

      Early, subsequent owner also had Franciscan affiliation, indicated by additions made to calendar

      "Deberud[?]t" inscribed in lower margins of fols. 68v and 69r by seventeenth-century hand, possible ownership inscription

      Léon Gruel and Edmond Engelmann collection, Paris, late nineteenth or early twentieth century; their bookplate on front pastedown, inscribed "No. 134"

      Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel in 1903

      Acquisition

      Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest

      ← search Psalter from a Psalter-Hours (second half in Paris) W.113

      Origin Place

      Northeast France (Flanders at the time)

      Date

      Last quarter of the 13th century CE

      Form

      book

      Language

      The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.

      Provenance

      Created in northeastern France, last quarter of the thirteenth century, for use in the diocese of Metz; contents suggest original owner had Franciscan or Dominican affiliation

      Early, subsequent owner also had Franciscan affiliation, indicated by additions made to calendar

      "Deberud[?]t" inscribed in lower margins of fols. 68v and 69r by seventeenth-century hand, possible ownership inscription

      Léon Gruel and Edmond Engelmann collection, Paris, late nineteenth or early twentieth century; their bookplate on front pastedown, inscribed "No. 134"

      Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel in 1903

      Acquisition

      Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest

      Manuscript Overview

      Abstract

      This Psalter, dating to the last quarter of the thirteenth century, was made in French Flanders for use in the diocese of Metz. Originally part of a Psalter-Hours, the two parts of the book were separated long ago and bound separately in the eighteenth century. The Hours half has recently been identified by François Avril as belonging to the Bibliothèque nationale de France, where it is n.a. Lat. 915. The Psalter component is heavily decorated, containing historiated initials as well as borders and line fillers full of hybrid creatures and grotesques.

      Hand note

      Compressed textura, at times closer to quadrata or semi-quadrata; calendar and main text by two different hands

      References

      Contributors

      Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.

      Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley

      Editor: Herbert, Lynley

      Copy editor: Dibble, Charles

      Contributor: Emery, Doug

      Contributor: Herbold, Rebekah

      Contributor: Noel, William

      Contributor: Schuele, Allyson

      Contributor: Sedovic, Katherine

      Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel

      Contributor: Toth, Michael B.

      Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber

      Conservator: Owen, Linda

      Conservator: Quandt, Abigail

      Bibliography

      De Ricci, Seymour, and W. J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935; p. 772, cat. no. 97.


      Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 1. France, 875-1420. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1989; pp. 86-88, cat. no. 37.


      Avril, Francois. "915 N.A.: Leroquais, Heures, II, 277-278." In Fichier bibliographique des manuscrits latins et grecs. Nal 770-1196. Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 2009; p. 343. Can be accessed at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1401374/f343.image.


      Doyle, Maeve. "The Portrait Potential: Gender, Identity, and Devotion in Manuscript Owner Portraits, 1230-1320." Ph.D. dissertation, Bryn Mawr College, 2015.


      Bindings & Oddities

      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.

      Upper board outside

      60bookmarkr

      141bookmarkv

      Lower board outside

      Spine

      Fore-edge

      Head

      Tail

      Keywords
      Psalter
      French
      Historiated initial
      Inhabited initial
      France
      13th century
      Devotion
      Scripture
      Christian
      Flemish
      Flanders
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