Accession number
MS S.10
Object title
Psalter, canticles, and additional prayers (MS S.10).
Display Date
ca. 1300-1320.
Created
Amiens, France, ca. 1300-1320.
Binding
Front and back panels from original 16th-century French gold tooled and painted binding inset in 19th-century brown gilt-tooled calf binding, with leaves from 19th-century printed book used as filler.
Credit line
Bequest of E. Clark Stillman, 1995.
Description
238 leaves (1 column, 18 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 178 x 116 mm
Provenance
Owned 22 February 1610 by Egrolin (?) Robin (inscription on paper flyleaf and the inscription Citoyen Robin (?) written upside down on folio 16 bas-de-page); apparently passed to Delahav(?)e in 1627 (inscription reads + pace don dud[it] Robin 1627); 1881 written in brown ink on first vellum flyleaf; E. Clark Stillman Collection.
Notes
Ms. psalter, calendar for Amiens, written and illuminated in Amiens, France, ca. 1300-1320.
Decoration: 9 historiated initials, 2 large decorated initials, many pages entirely framed with bar border in pink and blue and gold leaf studded with birds perched on leaf clusters. Elaborately decorated catchwords in green wash and brown ink filigree.
Subjects of the 9 historiated initials are as follows: 1. fol. 7r: Beatus vir initial -- 2. fol. 38r: Anointing of David -- 3. fol. 58v: David with hand to mouth -- 4. fol. 77r: Crowned warrior about to cut off cleric's head with sword -- 5. fol. 78r: The fool with large white bread, club, faced by naked winged devil -- 6. fol. 97v: David in canoe, sinking -- 7. fol. 121v: David playing bells -- 8. fol. 143v: 3 tonsured clerics in front of bookstand, singing from scroll; inscribed on it: Domine miserere mei -- 9. fol. 167r: God the Father, God the Son seated, both with cross-haloes, but no Dove.
Collation: Quires of 8, some with signature marks i-iiii, 5th folio +, on lower corner of rectos.
Decoration: 9 historiated initials, 2 large decorated initials, many pages entirely framed with bar border in pink and blue and gold leaf studded with birds perched on leaf clusters. Elaborately decorated catchwords in green wash and brown ink filigree.
Subjects of the 9 historiated initials are as follows: 1. fol. 7r: Beatus vir initial -- 2. fol. 38r: Anointing of David -- 3. fol. 58v: David with hand to mouth -- 4. fol. 77r: Crowned warrior about to cut off cleric's head with sword -- 5. fol. 78r: The fool with large white bread, club, faced by naked winged devil -- 6. fol. 97v: David in canoe, sinking -- 7. fol. 121v: David playing bells -- 8. fol. 143v: 3 tonsured clerics in front of bookstand, singing from scroll; inscribed on it: Domine miserere mei -- 9. fol. 167r: God the Father, God the Son seated, both with cross-haloes, but no Dove.
Collation: Quires of 8, some with signature marks i-iiii, 5th folio +, on lower corner of rectos.
Contents
19th-century vellum flyleaf; 17th-century paper flyleaf; 2 14th-century vellum preliminary leaves (unfoliated) with alphabetical list of text incipits in a 15th-century hand-- fols. 1r-6r: Calendar-- fols. 7r-211v: Psalter-- fols. 211v-229v: Weekly canticles: Confitebor tibi (211v), Ego dixi (212r), Exultavit cor (213r), Cantemus domino (214v), Domine audivi (216r), Audite celi (218r), Te deum (222v), Quicumque vult (224r), Benedicite omnia (227r), Benedictus dominus (228r), Magnificat anima (229r), Nunc dimittis (229v) -- fols. 230r-237v: Litany, followed by prayers -- fols. 237v-238v: Mass of the Virgin (ending lacking).
Script
textura
Language
Latin and Middle French
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