Psalter
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The digitisation and analysis of this fragment was generously supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
General Information
A Northern European proto-Gothic script, with features of the developing Gothic textualis, written by a single hand.
Original Condition
The text is written above the top line indicating a likely date of before c. 1240.
On dating, see also ampersands, traling Ss, and ae-dipthong.
Current Condition
Although the two leaves now function as flyleaves, hooked around the first and last quires of the host volume, the discolouration on the recto of the front leaf and verso of the rear leaf suggest they once functioned as pastedowns.
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There is light staining and loss of ink, particularly on the sides of the leaves which were once glued down to the wooden boards.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
One-line red penwork initials in the margin to the left of the text block marking new Psalm verses.
Content
- Content Item
- Text Language Latin
- Title Psalms
- Content Description
Two leaves from a psalter:
front flyleaf: Psalm 68:7-26
rear flyleaf: Psalms 75:2-76:12
History
Host Volume
15th-century stamped white binding over wooded boards typical of the Kartause Ittingen.
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ISTC No.: ib00662000
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. 81-82.