Psalter : use of Sarum : in Latin

Item Information

Title:
Psalter : use of Sarum : in Latin
Former owner:
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962
Creator:
Catholic Church
Date:
[1425–1450]
Format:
Books
Manuscripts
Genre:
devotional calendars
Gothic scripts
Psalters
Embossed stamps
Inscriptions
Manuscripts, Medieval--England
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--England
Illuminations
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
Places:
England
Extent:
157 leaves :parchment, ill. ; 219 x 157 (160 x 100) mm bound to 23 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/ft84cn84b
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
[England]
Language:
Latin
Table of Contents:
1. fol. 1-6v: calendar.
2. fol. 7-148v: psalter, 8-partite division.
3. fol. 148v-151v: canticles.
4. fol. 151v-155v: Litany.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Origin: Written in England in the second quarter of the fifteenth century, Sarum use. The calendar includes St. Batildis (30 January), Richard Confessor (3 April), Swythunus (15 July), Edith (16 September), Edmund (16 November), and many other English saints, although it is not localizable beyond Sarum use. Easter is noted on March 27. The name of Thomas Becket has been expunged from the calendar (see 29 December).
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: Owned in the 15th and 16th centuries by one Cook family, with several birth and death notices in Latin and English throughout the calendar. Signature of Thomas Dunn, front flyleaf.
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Sold to BPL by Sydney Cockerell, 1901 (his annotation on front pastedown)
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Notes (citation):
Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. I, page 918
Notes (object):
Secundo folio: Marcius/ Primus mandantem...
Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (19th-century paper) + 157 + ii (19th-century paper) ; 1⁶ 2¹⁶ 3¹⁶⁺¹ (fol. 37 tipped-in singleton) 4-5⁸ 6⁶ 7-8¹² 9¹²⁻² 10²⁴ (two leaves cancelled between fol. 94 and 95) 11-12⁸ 13¹⁶ 14⁶ ; catchwords in lower outer corner, final verso of each quire. Modern pencil arabic foliation, upper outer corner of each page, skips second-to-last folio (blank) so reaches 156 instead of 157.
Layout: Single column, 20 lines. Bounding and ruling lines in light brown (calendar in red).
Script: Written in a gothic bookhand (calendar in a different hand) in black ink with red rubrics, fol. 36 only.
Decoration: Versal initials 1-line alternating red and blue; Psalm initials 2-line blue with red filigree; major divisions begin with 5-line initial in typical English palette of pale blue, pink and green on gold with acanthus and infill in colors, 3/4 gold-bar border, acanthus at corners, with black tendril vines.
Binding: English blind-rolled and -stamped brown morocco over pasteboard, ca. 1815, title gilt-stamped red leather spine label reads "ROMAN/ MISSAL", spine gilt in compartments, all edges gilt, paper pastedowns and endleaves, gilt fillet turn-ins and board edges.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: Zoltan Haraszti, "Medieval Manuscripts in The Library," More Books III (1928): 58 (this description pasted to front flyleaf)
Notes (language):
In Latin.
Identifier:
06_01_018628
Call #:
RARE BKS MS q Med.7
MS G.402.11 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999091846277