Details

Subjects:

Bible. Psalms -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. Psalms.
Psalters -- Specimens.
Learning and scholarship -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500.
Learning and scholarship.
History.
Psalters.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Commentaries.
Psalters.
Glosses (annotations)
Canticles.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Specimens.

Language:

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.

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.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1058

OCLC:

155933074

Web link:

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

Collation model