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MS. 1

Dominican Psalter

Contents:

Dominican calendar
extent:ff. 1r-6v
Psalter with hymns and antiphons

extent:ff. 7r-184v

incipit: Venite exultemus domino

explicit: Spiritus laudet dominum

decoration:Alternating red and blue capitals with four-line illuminated initials throughout text. 7-line initial in blue, red, and gold, with vines in red, gold, and green above and to the left on fol. 8r. 4-line initial in blue and red with vines in red and blue above, below, and to the left on fol. 117v. 4-line initial in blue, red, and gold with vines in red and gold above, below, and to the left on fol. 136v.
Canticles

extent:ff. 184v-196v

rubric: Canticum Ysaye

incipit: Confitebor tibi domine

explicit: Domine ne moreris

decoration:Alternating red and blue capitals throughout. Some descenders on bottom line are decoratively extended to the bottom of the page.
Litany of the saints

extent:ff. 196v-201r

incipit: Kyrie eleyson

explicit: Et habundantia in turribus tuis
Prayers

extent:ff. 201r-202r

incipit: Protege domine famulos tuos

explicit: tua proteccione tranquilla
Hymns

extent:ff. 202r-211r

incipit: Verbum supernum

explicit: domino alleluia

decoration:Alternating red and blue capitals with four-line illuminated initials throughout text.

Date of origin:1456-1481

Place of origin: Nuremberg, Germany

Support: Parchment codex.

Foliation: Every tenth leaf numbered in lead by a modern hand.

Dimensions:166mm x 118mm (leaves), 115mm x 79mm (ruled space)

Collation: 1⁶ 2-9¹⁰ 10¹⁰ (-5) 11-21¹⁰ 22⁶ Catchwords written at the lower right at the end of every quire after the first.

Script:At least four hands, three for the text, and at least one separate contemporary corrector's hand. All text hands in Gothic litera quadrata, the first to f. 184v, the second to f . 192r, and the last to f. 211r.

Binding:Bound in crimson pigskin over wooden boards with leather thongs and metal pin clasps; the upper cover is paneled with blind tooled fillet lines and rows of fleurons with historiated squares at each corner; the center panel is crowded with fleurons and historiated squares and lozenges; the back cover has a fillet line border and a pattern of fleurons connected by lines interspersed with historiated squares and lozenges. The lower portion of the spine is detached with the sewing visible.

Additions:Contemporary corrections throughout in upper, lower, and outer margins. Some corrections in later hand. Some notes in later hand after fol. 142r. Leaf of corrections in contemporary hand tipped in between fol. 56v and fol. 57r.

Provenance: Contains a Dominican calendar on fols. 1-6 including name of St. Katherine twice and name of St. Sebald, indicating that this came from the Dominican convent of St. Katherine of Nuremberg. Ms. ex libris on first flyleaf "Disser Psalterii gehort der Schwester Maria Angness Hueberin." The inside front cover bears the label of George A. Levitt and Company, Auctioneers, New York, and one of D.G. Francis, Bookseller, 17 Astor Place, New York.

Bibliography:Corbett, James A. "Two German Dominican psalters," in Mediaeval Studies. v. 13 (1951): 247-252.

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