Book of Hours or Psalter[?]

Published/Created:

England
s. XIII/XIV

Physical Description:

1 l.
245 x 170 mm.

Related Links:

https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.ms525.htm

Notes:

On parchment.
f. 1r-v //Nam et testimonia tua meditacio mea est ... Et ne auferas de ore meo verbum veritatis usque//[quaque]. Ps. 118 :24-43
Ruled with lead for one column of 19 lines below top line (type 31, 170 x 105 mm). The horizontal ruling is double, lines being traced for the headlines as well as for the baselines.
Written in a narrow Northern Gothica Textualis Formata (Textus Rotundus).
Abundant decoration consisting of line-fillers in gold and paint containing animal and hybrid bodies and ending in human or animal heads; 1- and 2-line initials, the latter ending on f. 1r in borders consisting of a horizontal bar in the upper and lower margin on which grotesques are painted: in the upper margin an animal (its head partly cropped) shooting a bird and in the lower margin a monkey looking at a hybrid.

Language:

Latin

Genre:

Decorated initials
fragments (AAT)
Manuscripts, Medieval

Format:

Text

Content Type:

Archives or Manuscripts

Rights:

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Access Restrictions:

Public

Digital:

The Osborn Collection

Source Title:

The Osborn collection of 12 fragments of illuminated manuscripts from the 14th to the 16th century

Call Number:

Beinecke MS 525.5

Yale Collection:

Beinecke Library

Digital Collection:

James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection

oid pointer:

10520836

Volume/Enumeration:

No. 5

Extent of digitization:

Complete work digitized.

OID:

10520819

PID:

digcoll:3787736