Psalter
Psalms 6-9 and 19-21
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The digitisation and analysis of this fragment was generously supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
General Information
A hybrid, French Gothic script written in a single hand.
Original Condition
The bifolia are unfunished and the absence of sewing stations suggests it may have never been gathered into a quire and bound.
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The two bifolia contain consecutive texts from the Psalter.
Current Condition
Two consecutive bifolia have been slighly trimmed and repurposed as pastedowns at the front and back of the host volume.
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The dorses are accessible.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Space is left for the addition of deocrated and/or penwork initials of between 1 and 3 lines high, with the scribe indicating the letter to be added. However, these were left unrealised.
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3-line initials would have marked Psalm divisions; 1-line initials would have marked verse divisions.
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Rubrics and paraphs in red.
Content
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Content Item
- Text Language Latin
- Title Psalter
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Content Description
Two bifolia from a psalter with Psalms and antiphons:
Front pastedown, left page: Psalm 6: 10-11 + antiphons; Psalm 7:2-18; Psalm 8:2.
Front pastedown, right page: Psalm 21:2-18.
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Back pastedown, left page: Psalm 9:16-35.
Back pastedown, right page: antiphons; Psalm 19:2-10 + antiphons; Psalm 20:2-7.
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Host Volume
Bibliography
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On the host volume:
Luginbühl, Marianne and Heinz Bothien. Meisterwerke des Frühen Buchdrucks: Die Inkunabel-Schätze der Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau aus den Klöstern von Ittingen, Fischingen und Kreuzlingen. Frauenfeld: Verlag Huber, 2011, p. 582.