Psalter with Gospel readings
Psalterium
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General Information
Written in a formal humanistic minuscule with generous word separation, consistent punctuation and abbreviations confined to commonly occurring words.
Decorated initials (3-line) in gold with interlaced branchwork in white on parti-coloured ground, blue, green and red. One possible candidate for the illuminatation is Matteo Felice or his workshop.
Versals (1-line), now faded, alternate between red with violet pen flourishing and blue with rose pen flourishing.
Original Condition
Current Condition
Cropped, tension mounted and framed.
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Content Description
The invocations to local bishops could help to localise the Psalters. The Litany of both the State Library of South Australia and Trinity College includes the saints:
- Sancte gulielme
- Sancte gaudenti
- Sancte rofille
- Sancte mercurialis
- Sancte egidi et prophete
- Sancte leonarde
- Sancte paterniane
- Sancte mauriti
- Sancte benedicte
- Sancte maure
- Sancte ilare
The Maggs Bros catalogue suggests the regional saints listed in the litany associates the Psalter to a patron from NE Italy, specifically singling out: Eleucadius (Ravenna), Gaudentius (Rimini), Mercurialus (Forli) and Paternianus (Fano or Bologna).
Peter Kidd in his blog Medieval Manuscripts Provenance (17 October 2015) narrows the locality, proposing an association with Ravenna.
M. R. James (1862–1936) conjectured that references in the Kalendar of the Trinity College manuscript to the feast days of two Bishops of Naples linked the Psalter to that diocese – Severe (30 April), and A[g]nelli (14 December). He missed a further two Neapolitan bishops: Januarius (19 October), and Saint Louis (26 August). Only St Severe is included in the Litany.
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Other available descriptions
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Maggs Bros. Ltd., Catalogue 1059. Papyrus to Paper: Papyri, illuminated initials and leaves, paleographical specimens, Books of Hours and other manuscripts, London [undated, c. 1985].
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