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'N' Psalter

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Elbląg, Biblioteka Elbląska im. C. Norwida, SD.XVI.1480 (inw. 736)

Monika Opalińska, Paulina Pludra-Żuk, Ewa Chlebus 2023 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Psalter
Shelfmarks SD.XVI.1480 (inw. 736)
Former Shelfmarks Ob.6.II.3742
Material Parchment
Script, Hands

Latin text rendered in Standard Late English Caroline Minuscule that resembles the handwriting associated with Eadwig Basan and the tradition which sprang from Christ Church, Canterbury; English text rendered in Vernacular Minuscule; possibly in the same hand.

Original Condition

Page Height 300 mm
Page Width 165 – 190 mm
Height of Written Area 210 mm
Width of Written Area 140 mm
Number of Columns 1
Number of Lines at least 15
Ruling dry-point lines below and above the Latin script
More about the Condition

Originally, the page must have contained 17 lines. The number of lines and the original dimensions are estimated on the basis of the evidence from other extant fragments of the manuscript.

Current Condition

Dimensions 180 x 35 mm (front endleaf guard); 179 x 35 mm (rear endleaf guard)
More about the Current Condition

Endleaf guards detached from a binding

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Rubrics; capital letters in alternating red, blue and green

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Latin and Old English
    • Title Psalter
    • Content Description

      F. 2r and 1r (aligned)
      Psalm 113, 16–20
      [S]imiles illis fiant qui [faciunt ea] ...><... benedixit [domui Aaron]

      F. 1v and 2v (aligned)
      Psalm 113, 22–114,1
      [dom]inus super uos ; sup uo[s] ...><... [Dilexi quoniam] exaudiet [dominus]
    • Glosses and Additions Old English glosses contemporary with the main text

History

Provenance

1. The volume was owned by Samuel Meienreis (1572–1604), as attested by a supralibros (monogram SM with the date 1604 encircled with a sentence Ecce quam bonum habitare fratres in unum from Psalm 133 (132)). Based on other evidence, the volume was bought by Meienreis in Leiden shortly after it was printed.
2. In 1714, along with the entire book collection, it was donated by Samuel Meienreis' heirs to the Gymnasiumsbibliothek in Elbing (currently Biblioteka Elbląska).
Remarks

In secondary literature, the original manuscript is known as the 'N' Psalter. Other fragments from the same codex can be found in Cambridge, Pembroke College (MS 312, no. 32, items i-ii), Haarlem Stadsbibliotheek (MS 188 F 53), Schlossmuseum of Sondershausen (MS Lat. liturg. IX.1).

Host Volume

Title Caspar Waser, Archetypus grammaticae hebraeae, duabus praecipuis partibus, etymoligia et syntaxi absolutus
Date of Origin/Publication 1600
Place of Origin/Publication Basileae: typis Conradi Waldkirchii
Remarks

Laced-case parchment binding with paper lining over thin millboards; the book block sewn on four double white leather thongs with sprinkled red edges; the endbands worked with green silk on a white leather core with a couple of tie-downs.

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