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Psalter

Ps 51, 52, 57, 58

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Toruń, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, Ob.6.III.669/2

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

General Information

Title Psalter
Material Parchment
Date of Origin 1300-1400

Original Condition

Page Height 370 – 380 mm
Page Width at least 280 mm
Width of Written Area 200 – 210 mm
Number of Columns 2
Width of Columns 90 – 95 mm
Line Height at least 10 mm

Current Condition

Dimensions 380 x 560
More about the Current Condition

The top of the bifolium has been cut off, the parchment is dirty, the text is difficult to read.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Alternating red and blue one-line lombard initials at the beginning of the verses;

Alternating red and blue two-line lombard initials at the beginning of the prayers.

Cadels at the beginning of the chants.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language latin
    • Title Psalterium
    • Content Description

      Front cover, column a: [illegible text: Non enim sacrificio delectaris; holocaustum, si offeram, non placebit]. Sacrificium Deo spiritus contribulatus; cor contritum et humiliatum, Deus, non despicies [Ps 51,18-21]... <Q>uid gloriaris in malitia, qui potens es in iniquitate? ... ><[column b]: ...Sed speravit in multitudine divitiarum suarum et praevaluit in vanitate sua. Ego autem sicut oliva fructifera in domo Dei speravi in misericordia Dei [text illegible: in aeternum et in saeculum saeculi. Confitebor tibi in saeculum, quia fecisti; et exspectabo nomen tuum, quoniam bonum est, in conspectu sanctorum tuorum] (Ps 52,1-11).

      Back cover, column a: <M>iserere mei, Deus, miserere mei, quoniam in te confidit anima mea; et in umbra alarum tuarum sperabo, donec transeant iniquitas... ><column b ...Exaltare super celos, Deus, super omnem terram gloria tua (Ps 57, 2-12). [Oratio] <T>ransfer Domine iniquitatem familie humilis, sub tuarum alarum umbra sperantis, ut missa de celo misericordia tua, a nequissimis insidiarum foveis [eruamur. Per Dominum nostrum Ihesum Christum]… <S>i vere utique iustitiam loquimini, recte iudicate filii hominum? Etenim [in corde iniquitates operamini] (Ps 58, 1-3)
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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 Tertia pars Dictionarii In qua dictio quelibet per literas alphabeti iuxta congruentia distinguitur…, Lugduni 1517
Date of Origin/Publication 1517
Shelfmark Ob.6.III.699/2
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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