Psalter (incomplete).

Description

Title: Psalter (incomplete).
Published / Created: [between 1450 and 1499]
Publication Place: Germany,
Abstract: Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, containing an incomplete Psalter with six illuminated initials. Supposedly created and used by a German nun in the last half of the fifteenth century, it has been considered an example of Nonnenarbeiten.
Description: Binding: modern.
Decoration: Rubricated. Some banners with texts in margins. Six illuminated initials with gold or silver decoration: decorated silver initial (3v); birds, silver decoration (14v); Jonah, gold decoration (24v); monk with textual banner, gold decoration (35v); Virgin Mary and child, textual banner, gold decoration (43r); animal blowing instrument, silver decoration (50v); trumpeter, textual banner, gold decoration (80v).
Engraved portrait bookplate? on front pastedown of Gerardus, dux Juliæ et Montium, Comes Ravensburgæ, Fundator ordinis anno 1444.
Layout: single columns of 14 lines.
Script: Gothic book hand.
Extent: 81 l. : parchment ; 120 x 90 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Format: text
Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval--Germany--15th century.
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven.
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Nuns as artists--Germany.
Nuns--Books and reading--Germany.
Psalters.

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Citation: Psalter (Incomplete). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Orbis Record: 12426116
Object ID (OID): 17356870
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.ms1194.htm