Psalter with Gospel readings Electronic version according to TEI P5.1 Fragmentarium - Digital Research Laboratory for Medieval Manuscript Fragments

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 Adelaide State Library of South Australia 091 M489b Psalter with Gospel readings Southern Italy <note type="persons"/> <note type="description">The invocations to local bishops could help to localise the Psalters. The Litany of both the State Library of South Australia and Trinity College includes the saints: Sancte gulielme 
Sancte gaudenti
 Sancte rofille
 Sancte mercurialis
 Sancte egidi et prophete
 Sancte leonarde
 Sancte paterniane
 Sancte mauriti
 Sancte benedicte
 Sancte maure
 Sancte ilare The Maggs Bros catalogue suggests the regional saints listed in the litany associates the Psalter to a patron from NE Italy, specifically singling out: Eleucadius (Ravenna), Gaudentius (Rimini), Mercurialus (Forli) and Paternianus (Fano or Bologna). Peter Kidd in his blog Medieval Manuscripts Provenance (17 October 2015) narrows the locality, proposing an association with Ravenna. M. R. James (1862–1936)  conjectured that references in the Kalendar of the Trinity College manuscript to the feast days of two Bishops of Naples linked the Psalter to that diocese – Severe (30 April), and A[g]nelli (14 December). He missed a further two Neapolitan bishops: Januarius (19 October), and Saint Louis (26 August). Only St Severe is included in the Litany.</note> </msItem> </msContents> <physDesc> <objectDesc form="Fragment"> <supportDesc> <support> <material>Parchment</material> </support> <extent> <dimensions type="leaf_orig"> <width min="122" max="123">122 123</width> <height min="155" max="158">155 158</height> </dimensions> <dimensions type="written_orig"/> <measure type="pageDimensions">158 x 122 mm</measure> </extent> <condition> <p>Cropped, tension mounted and framed.</p> </condition> </supportDesc> <layoutDesc/> </objectDesc> <handDesc> <handNote> <p>Written in a formal humanistic minuscule with generous word separation, consistent punctuation and  abbreviations confined to commonly occurring words. Decorated initials (3-line) in gold with interlaced branchwork in white on parti-coloured ground, blue, green and red. One possible candidate for the illuminatation is Matteo Felice or his workshop. Versals (1-line), now faded, alternate between red with violet pen flourishing and blue with rose pen flourishing.</p> </handNote> </handDesc> <decoDesc> <decoNote> <persName/> </decoNote> </decoDesc> <musicNotation/> </physDesc> <history> <summary/> <origin/> <provenance/> </history> <additional> <adminInfo> <recordHist> <source> <bibl type="not-printed">Description by: Rose Faunce, Australian National University, 2026</bibl> </source> </recordHist> </adminInfo> </additional> </msDesc> </sourceDesc> </fileDesc> </teiHeader> <text> <body> <p/> </body> </text> </TEI>