BSB-Ink dates about 1478 from paper evidence.
Collation: [1⁴ 2-41¹⁰]: 404 leaves, leaf [2]/1 blank.
German preface (leaf [1]/3r): "Ein kurtz verrede uber den spater und furchtbar lerwye sich der leser diss bůchs haltten sol. das er nit in irrunge oder verdriesz gefůrt werde. und spricht also. [A]ls etwan dashimelbrot in ime gehebt hat alle[n] wolust un[d] gesmack der süszikait..."
Latin preface (leaf [1]/1r): "De co[m]mendatione libri psalterii et utilitate legendi et psallendi in psalterio sequitur et est talis. [N]ota super psalterium in glosa..."
Madsen (Katalog over det Kongelige Biblioteks inkunabler, 2876) assigned to Michael Greyff.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.5 x 21 cm, témoin (leaf [38]/9): 29.8 x 21.5 cm
PML copy with leaf [2]/1.10 (blank/"Ir menschen") misbound as outside leaf of quire [1]. Leaf [2]/2r with manuscript quire number "2."
PML copy with water staining in margins, sometimes heavy.
Prefaces in Latin and German; text in German.
Printed in type 1:120G ascribed to Georg Reyser by Ohly (Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, 1956), and tentatively to Heinrich Eggestein by Needham (Christie's, Doheny, I: 19).
Title derived from GW and Verfasserlexikon; ISTC identifies as Psalterium [Latin and German].
Translated by Heinrich von Mügeln, see Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters: Verfasserlexikon (2nd ed.), III: 817-18.
Psalterium [Latino-Germanicum]
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, paragraph marks, and capital strokes. Black and red lombards at major canonical divisions; Beatus vir (leaf [2]/2r) with marginal red flourishing. Annotations: Marginal numeration of psalms. Note on leaf [2]/2 noting Lyra's authorship of glosses. Contemporary manuscript numeral signatures, mostly trimmed (bottom center margin) and guide numbers for psalms (bottom right corner).