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Psalter

Psalm 68-70

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Brugge, Stads- en O.C.M.W.-archief Brugge, reeks 538: Fragmenten van handschriften, nr. 46

Roos in't Velt, Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken, 2023 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Psalter
Shelfmarks Brugge, Stads- en O.C.M.W.-archief Brugge, reeks 538: Fragmenten van handschriften, nr. 46
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Low Countries
Date of Origin first half 13th century
Script, Hands

Main text written in Praegothica, Middle Dutch instructions on fol. [1] written in a much later smaller gothica cursiva libraria.

Original Condition

Number of Columns 1
Number of Lines 18
Ruling No longer visible

Current Condition

Extent 1 bifolium

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Gilded initial 'D' with red and blue pen flourishes (fol. [1]r); marginal grotesque depicting a dragon (fol. [1]v); plain versals, alternately in red and blue ink.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Latin (main text); Middle Dutch (instructions)
    • Title Psalter
    • Content Description

      Psalm 68-70, with added instructions in Middle Dutch on fol. [2].

      • Fol. [1]: Psalm 68:18 - 32.
      • Fol. [2]: Psalm 68:32 - 69:6.
    • fol. [1]r
    • Remarks

      Fol. [2]r-v has Middle Dutch instructions related to the corresponding Psalms. The instruction on fol. [2]r instructs that someone had to read Psalm 69 before an altar ('Item die wil doen een groete saken, hi [...]ghe over s[...] bineden voerden outare. Ende lese vijfwerven Deus in adiutorium meum intende [i.e. Psalm 69] Item de here sal daer [...] volbringhe [...]')

      The instruction on fol. [2]v refers to Psalm 70 ('In te domine speravi...'), which was to start on the following page. One had to recite this particular psalm to avoid posession by the Devil ('Item die in hem ghevoelt die macht vanden duvel of hi in een mensche come wille, hi lese In te domine speravi [i.e. Psalm 70]. Hij en sal geen macht over hem hebben').

Host Volume

Remarks

The fragment was used as a cover for a register containing the rents owed to a sheath makers' guild, according to a later-added note on fol. [1]r ('Schêemakers-renten').
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