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  • Language: Latin. Incipit: fol. 1v: la<vabo> per singulas noctes lectum meum. Explicit: Illegible. Folio range: [1]r-[2]v
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Time Period
  • Mid-14th to mid-15th century
Place of Origin
  • Italy
Description
  • Two leaves from a Psalter, likely of Italian origin, produced in the second half of the fourteenth or first half of the fifteenth century. Leaves are very deteriorated and most text is illegible. The more complete leaf bears the text of Psalms 5:11-7:3. Both offprint and bleed-through evident due to extensive water damage.
Contributors
  • Records created or enhanced by the Peripheral Manuscript Project’s Description team, led by Dr. Elizabeth K. Hebbard and Dr. Sarah L. Noonan.
Source Identifier
  • smc_012_001
Keywords
  • Psalter
  • Italy
  • Pen-flourished initial
  • Devotion
  • Christian
  • Fragment
  • Damage
Title
  • Psalter [Fragment]
Physical Description
  • Physical type: Fragment. Fragment type: Detached. Classification: Leaf (untrimmed). Support material: Parchment. Page dimensions (in mm): 150 x 110. Written area (in mm): 102 x 87. Line height (in mm): 6.6. Script: Gothic. Script type: Rotunda. Layout: One column, fifteen lines per page. Number of columns: 1. Number of lines: 15. Decoration: Two-line rubricated initial on first leaf. Pen-flourished initial on second leaf (blue letter with red flourishing). Psalm verses introduced with alternating blue and red one-line initials.
Language
  • Latin
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Date Created
  • 14th century
  • 15th century
Owning Institution
  • Saint Mary’s College Cushwa Leighton Library Rare Book Room. Notre Dame, IN.
Provenance
  • Purchased by Saint Mary's College from an unknown source in the mid-twentieth century for $1.50.

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