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Psalter

Psalms 106-108

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Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 288a

Fergus Bovill, 2025 (Born Digital)

Remarks by the Editor

The digitisation and analysis of this fragment was generously supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. 

General Information

Title Psalter
Shelfmarks Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 288a
Page/Folio Reference Flyleaves
Material Parchment
Place of Origin German speaking area
Date of Origin second half, 12th century
Script, Hands

A Northern proto-Gothic script written in a single hand. 

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Marginalia in an early 14th-century Gothic cursive hand on the dorse of the front pastedown. 
General Remarks

Below top line. 

Original Condition

Number of Columns 1
Number of Lines 22
Line Height 10 mm
Ruling hardpoint
More about the Condition

Signs of a repair to a tear in the parchment of the back pastedown. 

Current Condition

Extent 2 leaves
Dimensions 295 x 192 mm
More about the Current Condition

Two leaves have been repurposed as flyleaves at the front and back of the host volume. 

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

One-line penwork initials in red to mark verse divisions; two-/three-line penwork initials in red to mark Psalm openings. 
  • Musical Notation

    Staffless neumes above the text of two antiphons on the dorse of the front pastedown. 

    • Content

    • Content Item
      • Text Language Latin
      • Title Psalter
      • Content Description

        Two consecutive leaves from a Psalter: 

        Front pastedown, front: Psalm 106:14-30.

        Front pastedown, dorse: Psalm 106:30-43 + two antiphons with neumes; Psalm 107:2-3.

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        Back pastedown, front: Psalm 107:39-14; Psalm 108:2-4.

        Back pastedown, dorse: Psalm 108:4-18. 
      • front flyleaf

    History

    Persons and Institutions The host volume belonged to the nearby Kartause Ittingen outside of Frauenfeld, Switzerland.

    Host Volume

    Title Vincentius Ferrerius, Sermones de tempore et de sanctis (in three volumes)
    Date of Origin/Publication 1492
    Place of Origin/Publication Nuremberg
    Persons Anton Koberger

    Bibliography

    • 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, pp. 181-82.
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