Psalter
offset of Oudenaarde, Stadsarchief Oudenaarde, Handschriften en Zeldzame Drukken, nr. 20-4, fol. 5v
F-85pt
General Information
Northern gothica textualis formata (second half 14th century)
Manuscript is part of the same original manuscript as Oudenaarde, Stadsarchief Oudenaarde, Handschriften en Zeldzame Drukken, nr. 20-4 (F-vzd3 on Fragmentarium), Stadsarchief Oudenaarde, Perkamenten nr. 56 c, fragm. 1 (F-0eng on Fragmentarium), Perkamenten nr. 56 c, fragm. 3 (F-6xfb on Fragmentarium), Perkamenten nr. 56 y (F-tg8m on Fragmentarium) and Oud Archief stad Oudenaarde, nr. 877/H/9 (in situ fragment, F-a2ke on Fragmentarium).
The fragment is an offset of the fifth leaf preserved in Oudenaarde, Stadsarchief Oudenaarde, Handschriften en Zeldzame Drukken, nr. 20-4 (F-vzd3 on Fragmentarium).
Original Condition
Current Condition
There are no stiff boards. The binding consists of a thick leather cover onto which parchment leaves have been pasted on the inside. This fragment is the offset of a leaf that was pasted onto the inside of the upper cover. The leaf itself is no longer present. Another fragment from the same manuscript has been used on the lower cover.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Pen-flourished initials, alternating red with blue penwork and blue with red penwork; line fillers in red and blue.
Content
History
The original leaf was removed from this binding at some point in the 19th century, and was bound in a binding alongside four different leaves from the same psalter (F-vzd3 on Fragmentarium). The leaf is the fifth leaf in this binding.
Host Volume
Fragment was used as lower pastedown. Another fragment from the same manuscript (F-a2ke on Fragmentarium) was used as the host volume's upper pastedown.