Psalter, canticles, and litany : in Latin

Item Information

Title:
Psalter, canticles, and litany : in Latin
Title (alt.):
Psalter in Latin
Description:
Psalms, Old Testament canticles, New Testament canticles and Litany.
Creator:
Catholic Church
Former owner:
Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855
Former owner:
Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878
Former owner:
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962
Former owner:
Chartreuse de Valenciennes
Auctioneer:
Sotheby's (Firm)
Date:
[1275–1299]
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Gothic scripts
Psalters
Inscriptions
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--France
Manuscripts, Medieval--France
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
Places:
France
Extent:
73 leaves : parchment ; 142 x 95 (97 x 65) mm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/cn69q123p
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
[France]
Language:
Latin
Table of Contents:
Incipit: Beatus vir qui.../...supplicationibus consequantur. Qui vivis.
1. fol. 1-64v: psalter, 8-partite division (ends imperfectly at Psalm 124:2, nunc et...)
2. fol. 65-68v: Old Testament canticles (lacking all of the first two canticles and part of the third; begins imperfectly with Isaiah 38:17, [anim]am meam...)
3. fol. 68v-71v: New Testament canticles, doxologies and creeds.
5. fol. 71v-73: Litany.
6. fol. 73v: blank.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title devised by cataloger.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Origin: Written in France in the mid-fourteenth century, possibly for the Carthusians of Valenciennes (Later Our Lady in Macourt); 16th-century inscription, fol. 1v, reads "Liber domus Beatae Mariae De macourt ordinis carthusia prope valencenas in Hanonia."
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: Owned by Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Barrois (1784-1855), his 1849 sale (n. 275) to Bertram, the Fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878) (Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts 9471; green Barrois label on spine).
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's London, 10 June 1901, lot 496 to Sydney Cockerell for the Boston Public Library (Cockerell's notes and Sotheby's lot number inside front cover).
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Notes (citation):
Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 1, page 918
Notes (object):
Secundo folio: ...tis in cordibus vestris...
Collation: Parchment codex, fol. i (modern paper) + 73 + i (modern paper) ; 1-8⁸, 9¹⁰⁻¹. Final leaf cancelled. Lacking unknown number of leaves between fol. 64 and 65 (between quires 8 and 9) ; modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner each page.
Script: Written in an early gothic bookhand in black ink.
Layout: 1 column, 26 lines. Bounding and ruling lines in light plummet.
Decoration: 4-line blue and red "puzzle" initials with red and green filigree into margins, at major divisions (Ps. 1, 26, 38, 52, 68, 80, 95, 109); versal initials alternate red and blue, all other Psalms begin with 2-line initials alternating blue with red filigree.
Binding: 19th-century green sheep over pasteboard, spine gilt-stamped in compartments, "Liber/ Beatae/ Mariae/ de/ Macourt"; edges darkened, possibly by smoke; paper pastedowns and endleaves. Housed in a custom black cloth clamshell, "Marie de Macourt" on gilt red leather spin label, marble-lined inside.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: Zoltan Haraszti, "Medieval Manuscripts in the Library," More Books III (1928): 58 (this description pasted to the front flyleaf). Consult curatorial file for futher information.
Notes (language):
In Latin.
Identifier:
06_01_018627
Call #:
RARE BKS MS q Med.6
MS G.38.45. (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999091846269