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Psalter with Passion readings

Psalterium

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Canberra, The National Library of Australia, Nan Kivell Calligraphic Collection MS 4052/3/107

Rose Faunce, 2018 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Psalter with Passion readings (colophon)
Shelfmarks Series 3. Miscellaneous documents, c1200-early 16th century Nan Kivell Calligraphic Collection MS 4052/3/107 (Series 3 formerly titled MS 4052/series ‘T’)
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Italy, perhaps Naples
Date of Origin 1441-1483
Persons Pietro Ursuleo
Script, Hands

The text is written in a fine and well-formed slightly clubbed upright humanistic minuscule, with generous word separation and consistent punctuation. The few abbreviations are confined to commonly occurring words.

Versal initial in blue. The colophon written in capitals in alternating brown and pale red inks.

Original Condition

Height of Written Area at least 135 mm
Width of Written Area at least 130 mm
Number of Columns 1
Number of Lines 19

Current Condition

Dimensions 172 x 125 mm

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title Gospel according to John 19: 36-42
    • Content Description

      recto

      […facta sunt enim haec ut scriptura impleatur os]

      non comminuetis ex eo. [37] Et iterum alia scri-

      ptura dicit . Videbunt in quem transfixerunt.

      [38] Post hec autem rogauit pilatum ioseph

      ab arimarhia: eo quod esset discipulus iesu:

      occultus autem propter metum iudeorum: ut

      tolleret corpus iesu. Et permisit pilatus. Venit

      ergo: et tulit corpus iesu. [39] Venit autem et ni-

      chodemus qui uenerat ad iesum nocte primum

      ferens misturam mirre et aloes: quasi libras

      centum. [40] Acceperunt ergo corpus iesu: et liga-

      uerunt eum linteis cum aromatibus: sicut mos

      iudeis. est sepelire: [41] Erat autem in loco ubi cru-

      cifixus est ortus: et in orto monumentum

      nouum in quo nondum quisquam positus [erat.] 

      [42] Ibi ergo propter parasceuen iudeorum [quia]

      iuxta erat monumentum posuerunt

      [?] LAUS. CHRISTO. VIVO. IESU.

      PETRUS URSULEUS. SCRIPSIT.
    • Remarks

      The name of the scribe provided in the colophon.

History

Provenance

The Psalter has been linked to the manuscript described Psalterium Davidis cun Canticis et Hymnis ecclesiasticis, Litania, Symbolis Apostolorum et S. Athasnasii, et Orationibus; accredit Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi in the library of John Boykett Jarman (1782-1864), auctioned by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge 13-14 June 1864 (lot 161).

A twin manuscript also written by Pietro Ursuleo is preserved (Cambridge: Trinity College, MS. O.7.46).

This leaf was acquired by Sir Rex De Charembac Nan Kivell for his collection of miscellaneous manuscripts and documents spanning several centuries accumulated over a number of years from various sources which are not recorded. The material was collected by him as specimens of early calligraphy and/or examples of early documentation. He presented the collection, referred to as the ‘Nan Kivell Calligraphic Collection’, to the National Library of Australia in 1969.
Remarks

In 1982 Albinia de la Mare of the Bodleian Library identified the leaf as coming from Pietro Ursuleo's Psalter.

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