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Psalter

Ps 119, 121

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Toruń, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, Ob.6.III.669/1

Marta Czyżak, Toruń, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, 2020 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Psalter
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Teutonic Prussia?
Date of Origin 1300-1400

Original Condition

Page Height at least 390 mm
Page Width 260 – 285 mm
Width of Written Area at least 210 mm
Number of Columns 2
Width of Columns 90 – 95 mm
Line Height at least 10 mm

Current Condition

Dimensions 390 x 550

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Red one-line lombard initials at the beginning of the verses; red two-line lombard initials at the beginning of the psalms, cadels at the beginning of the chants.

Square music notation on a 4-line red staff.

Content

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    • Text Language latin
    • Content Description

      Front cover, column a: [Populus vitiorum victor se petit vivificari], quoniam mandata Domini summo studio exquisivit, principium quoque verborum Domini testatur esse veritatem… <P>rincipes persecuti sunt me gratis et a verbis tuis formidavit cor meum laetabor ego super eloquia tua [Ps 119, 161-168]... [column b] <A>ppropinquet deprecatio mea in conspectu tuo domine, iuxta eloquium tuum da mihi intellectum… >< ...Fiat manus tua, ut salvet me, quoniam mandata [tua elegii] (Ps 119, 169-173)

      Back cover, column a: [Dominus umbraculum tuum ad manum dexteram tuam. Per diem] sol non percutiet te, neque luna per noctem. Dominus custodiet te ab omni malo; custodiet animam tuam Dominus. Dominus custodiet introitum tuum et exitum tuum ex hoc nunc et usque in saeculum [Ps 121, 5b-8]. Oratio. Protege plebem tuum... [column b, rubro] Populi gaudet se monitum ad supernam Iherusalem esse venturum… >< ...ad cives Iherusalem pacis eis habundantiam optans.

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History

Origin

Teutonic Prussia
Provenance

The host volume belonged to private person and then to the church library in Świecie (German: Schwetz) in former Royal Prussia.
In the 19th century it became the property of the Königlische katholische Gymnasium zu Culm in the nearby Chełmno (German: Culm), on the other side of the Vistula River. The volume is mentioned in the list of books in the gymnasium library from 1876.

After second world war, in 1946, the valuable manuscripts and old prints of the gymnasium library were handed over to the University Library in Toruń.
Persons and Institutions 1. Private person (Procop [D]zwonowsky?); 2. Church library in Świecie (German: Schwetz); 3. Königlische (since 1920: State) Katholische Gymnasium zu Culm; 4. University Library in Toruń

Host Volume

Title Prima pars Dictionarii In qua dictio quelibet per literas alphabeti iuxta congruentia distinguitur…, Lugduni 1516.
Date of Origin/Publication 1516
Shelfmark Ob.6.III.669/1
Persons Pierre Bersuire (Petrus Belchorius)

Bibliography

  • M. Strutyńska, Stare druki bibliotek gimnazjalnych Chojnic i Chełmna w zbiorach Biblioteki Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, in: Bibliologia dyscypliną integrującą: studia ofiarowane profesor Barbarze Bieńkowskiej, Warszawa 1993 (Z Badań nad Polskimi Księgozbiorami Historycznymi, vol. 15a), p. 127-137.
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