Cistercian psalter : in ten parts : with calendar, canticles and litany : in Latin

Item Information

Title:
Cistercian psalter : in ten parts : with calendar, canticles and litany : in Latin
Description:
An early 13th-century psalter, produced in present-day Germany or Austria, with courses of late-13th- and 15th-century additions, insertions, and marginal annotations.
Creator:
Catholic Church
Former owner:
Otto Haas (Firm)
Date:
[1200–1225]
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Germany
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Austria
Manuscripts, Medieval--Germany
Manuscripts, Medieval--Austria
Psalters
Inscriptions
Marginalia
devotional calendars
Protogothic
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
Places:
Germany
Austria
Extent:
200 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 147 x 105 (95 x 70) mm bound to 17 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3t94cm481
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
[Germany?]
Language:
Latin
German
Table of Contents:
1. fol. 1: blank.
2. fol. 1v-2v: liturgical notes in Latin and German.
3. fol. 3-10v: Hours of the Virgin (highly abbreviated) and other prayers.
4. fol. 3-4: Hours of the Virgin (too abbreviated for localization)
5. fol. 4-9v: weekly liturgy for feasts with 12 lections.
6. fol. 10: Eterne rex conditor.
7. fol. 10v: Splendor paterne glorie.
8. fol. 11-12v: prayers, in German.
9. fol. 13: Psuedo-Augustinus, Meditationes XL (begins and ends imperfectly): "...teneam caritatem mala obliviscar.../...confessorum virginum et omnium." (Patrologia Latina (PL) XL: 938-940) [this seems to have been a scrap page from an unfinished manuscript, salvaged for use here]
10. fol. 13v-18v: calendar (lacking December, one folio after fol. 18)
11. fol. 19-19v: prayers to the Crown of Thorns, with an epithet seeking blessing from Sts. Margaret and Jacob.
12. fol. 20-21v: psalms for Temporale feasts, highly abbreviated.
13. fol. 22-152v: psalter (10-partite division), with 14th-century antiphons and other marginal additions throughout.
14. fol. 152v-162v: canticles.
15. fol. 163-168v: Matins (Hours of the Virgin, Cistercian Use)
16. fol. 168v-173: Lauds (Hours of the Virgin, Cistercian Use)
17. fol. 173v-174v: Prime (Hours of the Virgin, Cistercian Use)
18. fol. 174v-175v: Terce (Hours of the Virgin, Cistercian Use)
19. fol. 175v-176v: Sext (Hours of the Virgin, Cistercian Use)
20. fol. 176v-177v: Nones (Hours of the Virgin, Cistercian Use)
21. fol. 177v-181v: Vespers (Hours of the Virgin, Cistercian Use)
22. fol. 181v-183v: Compline (Hours of the Virgin, Cistercian Use)
23. fol. 183v-188v: Litany.
24. fol. 189-199v: 15th-century liturgical additions on an added quire.
25. fol. 200-200v: originally blank flyleaves, 15th-century liturgical additions on fol. 200.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Origin: Written in Southern Germany or Austria in the early 13th century, with additions throughout the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries in Latin and German. The litany includes typical southern German/Austrian saints such as Oswald, Quirinus, Kilian, Udalricus, Columbanus, Gall and Othmar.
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: Early-modern monogram "JJS" inside rear cover; ownership stamp "SE" inverted on fol. 3.
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased in 1957 from Otto Haas, London.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Notes (citation):
Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 219
Notes (object):
Secundo folio: [fol. 2, 15th-century] Dominicus diebus/ Invitatorium Adoremus/... [Psalter, fol. 23]...filius meus et tu.
Collation: Parchment, fol. i (modern parchment) + 200 + i (modern parchment) ; 1¹⁰⁺² (15th-century) 2⁸⁻² (mid-13th-century, lacking 2 folios after fol. 18) 3²⁺¹ (fol. 19-21 added 15th century; fol. 19 is a singleton, fol. 20-21 a bifolium) 4-15¹⁰ 16⁸ 17¹² 18⁸ 19¹² 20⁶⁺¹(fol. 188 is a singleton and was the original explicit of the manuscript) 21¹⁰ (added 15th century) 22² (blank bifolium, the original flyleaves) ; 19th-century ink (or dark pencil) arabic foliation, lower center margin of each recto, begins with "4" on fol. 5, makes several mistakes, and so reaches "196" on fol. 198; modern pencil arabic foliation, upper outer corner of each page, this series used here for reference.
Layout: Single column, 19 lines. Bounding and writing lines in blind.
Script: Written in a late romanesque bookhand, additions in various gothic cursives in brown ink with red rubrics
Decoration: Minor Psalms begin with three-line initials in green with red, or green, or red, throughout; verse initials mid-line in red capitals; some decorative orange line-fillers; decorative initials at major Psalm divisions, in two styles: 1thirteen-line white vine initials in red ink filled with colors at major Psalm divisions (Psalms 1, 38, 51 and 101), each followed by the first few words of the Psalm in uncials alternating orange and blue, and ten-line "puzzle" initials in red with blue with red and blue filigree added slightly later to originally blank spaces (Psalms 26, 52, 68, 80, 97 and 109); canticle section begins with four-line initial in red with purple filigree, also in a slightly later style.
Binding: Modern German light-brown blind-stamped and -ruled sheespkin, vellum pastedowns and conjugate flyleaves, spine in compartments, gilt-stamped title on spine: "PSALTERIUM/ VEL/ LECTIONARIUM/ LATINUM/ 14. JAHRH."; metal clasps intact.
Notes (language):
In Latin, with rubrics and additions in German.
Identifier:
06_01_018708
Call #:
RARE BKS MS q Med.163
MS 1588 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999090789072