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Carthusian Psalter

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Description: Fourteen leaves from a rubricated Carthusian psalter believed to be from a 15th century mansucript, hand-written in Church Latin in a Gothic bookhand in black and red ink on vellum; 5 lines per page; tied to wooden boards.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: between 1400 and 1499.
Call number: mssHM 80420
Creator: Catholic Church(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Mrs. Edward J. Loftus, February 1975.
Dimensions: 180 x 125 mm. bound to 190 x 130 mm

Carthusian Psalter with musical notations

Manuscripts

Psalterium cum Hymnarium et Calendario, early and late 15th century; handwritten in Church Latin in Gothic bookhand in black and red ink on 7 vellum leaves, in three hands, with large initials in blue or red. Originally this psalter had 211 leaves but only these 7 leaves remain; penciled page numbers added by a previous owner.

mssHM 82931

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Psalter

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Two non-consecutive leaves from a psalter written in Italy.

mssHM 80509

Psalter, with collects : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-188v; ff. 189-194v blank. [Psalter]. Latin. Biblical psalter, each psalm proceded by a titulus and followed by collects (here "oratio"); the collects generally agree with the Roman series, except for 12 of the Hispanic series and 27 not precisely identified; collect R74 is copied twice, after Pss. 73 and 74; the collect after Ps. 118, 96 is R11811; after Ps. 118, 153 there are 4 collects. See L. Brou, The Psalter Collects. HBS 83 (London 1949). On ff. 167-177v, canticles; on ff. 177v-181v, Gloria, Credo, Pater noster, Te deum, Quicumque vult; on ff. 181v-187, litany including Germanus, Nicholas and Louis among the confessors; Benedict, Maurus, Placidus, Onuphrius and Leonard among the monks and hermits; Scholastica among the virgins; on ff. 187-188v, added, s. XVII, an index in Italian of the psalms for the office of the Virgin arranged according to the hours of the office, and index of the penitential and gradual psalms with reference to page numbers added to the text leaves by the same person.

mssHM 1041

Book of Hours and Psalter : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-199; ff. 199v-200v, blank. [Book of Hours and Psalter]. Latin; French. f. 1, drawing; f. 1v, blank; ff. 2-12, Hours of the Passion; ff. 12v-13v, blank; ff. 14-18, Short Hours of the Cross; f. 18v, blank; ff. 19-26, Hours of the Virgin, Dominican use; ff. 26-35, Psalter of St. Jerome; f. 35v, blank; ff. 36-41v, Calendar; ff. 42-175v, Psalter; ff. 175v-187v, Ferial canticles; ff. 188-192v, Litany; ff. 193-199, Office of the Dead, use of Rome.

mssEL 9 H 17

Psalter : [manuscript]

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ff. 5v-107. [Psalter]. Latin; French. The psalter is in biblical order, with antiphons and versicles added in the margins, s. XV, but later erased, except on f. 84v, where they were written straight on below the text. On ff. 107-115v, canticles, Quicumque vult; an alphabet: a-z, ampersand, punctuation marks and the ""et cetera"" abbreviation; Pater noster; Credo in deum; Magnificat. On f. 116r-v, litany of saints, beginning defectively. On f. 117r-v, in 3 different but contemporary gothic hands: Ave stella matutina . . . [RH 2135]; Tres sainte arme de ihesucrist santefie me . . . e me prene iouste toy ma suy ut cum beatis laudem in secula seculorum Amen; Du haut seignor de gloyre quil du ciel descendit/ Qui por nous devint homme e que iudas vendit . . . A Touz mes biens fetours presenz e de iadis/ Enuoit diex es cors ioie es ames paradis Amen. [in 25 monorhyme verses; listed by K. V. Sinclair, French Devotional Texts of the Middle Ages: A Bibliographic Manuscript Guide (Westport, Connecticut, 1979) n. 2811.] Preceding the psalter, on ff. 1-4v, calendar in red and black, lacking 2 leaves after f. 2 with loss of May-August; included are the feasts of Vedast and Amand (6 February), ""Resurrectio domini"" (27 March), Invention of Denis (22 April), Bertin and Taurinus (5 September), Evurtius (7 September), Maurilius (13 September), Germar (24 September), Leodegar (2 October), Denis, Rusticus and Eleutherius (9 October), Mellonius (22 October), Romanus (23 October), Magloire (24 October), Hilary (25 October), Eustachius (2 November); 3 entries by a later hand: Eulalia of Barcelona (12 February), Michael (29 September), Conception of the Virgin (8 December); astrological month verses in Latin, beginning: Arva nemus prata dat aquarum ymbre rigata.

mssHM 1054

Breviary, use of Sarum : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-373v. Latin. On ff. 1-13v, additions of s. XV2 by various hands; ff. 14-185v, Temporale from Advent to the 25th Sunday after Pentecost; ff. 186-192, Dedication of a Church, and the office within the octave; ff. 192-193v, rubrics mainly regarding Sarum rite; ff. 194-199v, graded calendar in blue, red, and black; ff. 194-199v, added prognostications in English and Latin in the lower margin of each page, e.g. f. 194: "If it þundir in þe monþe of ianuarii ... In þis signe take þi iourney ..."; ff. 200-225v, Psalter (after f. 206, missing Psalms 21:27-48:15; after f. 225v, missing Ps. 102:14 to the end); ff. 226-345, Sanctorale, from Andrew to Saturninus (nine lections for David and Chad (respectively, 1 and 2 March); ff. 345v-366, Common of saints; ff. 366v-367, Benedictions "ante prandium" and "post prandium"; ff. 367v-373, additions by various hands; f. 373v blank.

mssHM 71520

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