[Glossed psalter].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Bible. Psalms--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Bible. Psalms.

Psalters--Specimens.

Psalters.

Learning and scholarship--History--Medieval, 500-1500.

Learning and scholarship.

History.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

commentaries

psalters (books)

glosses (annotations)

canticles

Manuscripts, Latin -- 12th century.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Specimens.

Penn Provenance:

Rebound and given the title Lectionnaire (f. 1r) in France in the 18th century (Quaritch).

Sold at auction at Christie's, 2 June 1999, lot 33.

Offered at auction at Sotheby's, 7 December 2004, lot 34.

Sold by Bernard Quaritch Ltd., cat. 1348 (2007), no. 11.

Physical Description:

109 leaves : parchment ; 134 x 90 (95 x 48) mm bound to 141 x 100 mm

Production:

[Laon?, France], [circa 1100]

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

The Book of Psalms with extensive, mostly unattributed, interlinear and marginal glosses, followed by canticles with glosses.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Collation: Parchment, 109; 1-3⁸ 4⁸(-4, no loss of text) 5-7⁸ 8⁸(-5, no loss of text) 9-10⁸ 11¹⁰(gathering of 8 with additional bifolium sewn in) 12⁸ 13¹³ (gathering of 8 with 5 single leaves sewn in); modern pencil foliation, lower right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.

Layout: Psalms written in 22 lines, marginal glosses written in up to 58 lines; ruled in drypoint for psalms and glosses.

Script: Written in a late Caroline minuscule script; opening words of psalms and some headings in glosses in majuscules.

Decoration: Large (three-quarters page) opening initial (f. 1v) added ca. 1250, divided brown and red with penwork infill and surround in brown and red; initials and versal capitals added to early pages (ff. 2-16) in red, probably 13th c., otherwise left blank.

Binding: 18th-century French calf gilt (Quaritch).

Origin: Written in northern France, probably Laon, circa 1100.

Local Notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Additional support from the Walter J. Miller Trust.

Publications about:

Holsinger, Bruce, On Parchment: Animals, Archives, and the Making of Culture from Herodotus to the Digital Age (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023), pp. 68, 72.

Cited as:

Glossed Psalter (Ms. Codex 1058). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

155933074

Online:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page

Collation model