Fragmentarium

Psalter – Fragment

Parchment · 1 leaf · 1451 – 1500 CE · England · 123 x 85 mm

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Cambridge, Magdalene College, Pepys Library, PL 2981

Language
Latin

Reconstruction Summary

The Pepys Library holds a number of manuscript and printed book fragments. In 1700 these fragments were deliberately collected and arranged by Samuel Pepys into his ‘Calligraphical’ albums, with added written commentary by Pepys’s associate Humfrey Wanley. The appearance of the fragments in the album is much like a scrapbook, and they are arranged in a chronological order to demonstrate how handwriting styles changed over time. An image of the whole page of the album on which each fragment appears is also displayed, to show the arrangement of the fragments in their wider context.

(Catherine Sutherland (Pepys Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge, UK))

Scholarly description(s)

Rosamond McKitterick and Joyce Irene Whalley, Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College Cambridge. Volume 4, Music, Maps and Calligraphy. Woodbridge: Brewer, 1989.
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08/01/2023

Psalter

Parchment · 1 leaf · 1451 – 1500 CE · England · 123 x 85 mm

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Cambridge, Magdalene College, Pepys Library, PL 2981

Psalter – Fragment

Parchment · 1 leaf · 1451 – 1500 CE · England · 123 x 85 mm

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Cambridge, Magdalene College, Pepys Library, PL 2981

Pepys, Samuel, 1633-1703

Role: Previous Owner
Authority Source: VIAF
Biographical data:

Wanley, Humphrey, 1672-1726

Role: Describer
Authority Source: VIAF
Biographical data:

England

Role: Origin
Authority Source: Library of Congress

Psalter, Cambridge, Magdalene College, Pepys Library, PL 2981

Psalter Ps. 75(76). 2 - Ps. 76(77). 11

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