IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 169752 accession number: MS 239 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 18 July 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, xiv paper flyleaves (modern pencil foliation I – XV) + 174 fols. + xxiii paper flyleaves (modern pencil foliation 175 – 180, 180a, 180b, 181 – 193, XVI – XVII), 157 x 123 (125 x 89) mm, 16 long lines, ruled in brown ink BINDING: 17th century, brown leather over wooden boards, leather and brass straps on lower cover, brass catchplates on upper cover, parchment tabs, re-backed and repaired CONTENTS: Fols. 3r – 172v Psalter, Gallican, with Canticles, Te Deum, Pater Noster, Apostles Creed, and Quicumque vult. DECORATION: Eight full-page framed miniatures on gold grounds: fol. 1r Annunciation; fol. 1v Nativity; fol. 2r Ascension; fol. 2v Christ in Majesty with heads of Evangelists’ symbols; fol. 173r Adoration of the Magi; fol. 173v Flagellation; fol. 174r Crucifixion; fol. 174v Resurrection. Historiated initial in blue on gold ground within green and red frame: fol. 25r Psalm 26, [D, 10 ll.] man standing within initial and pointing at text. ORNAMENTATION: Blue, red and green stylized foliage initials [9 – 10 ll.] on gold ground within green and red frames for Psalms 1, 38, 51, 52, 68, 80, 97, 101, and 109 (fols. 3r, 40r, 53v, 54v, 68v, 86v, 104r, 107r, 123r); alternate red and blue pen-flourished initials [3 – 4 ll.] for remaining Psalms and Canticles; alternate red and blue one-line penwork verse initials. title: psalter NOTES ----- type: history note value: Howell Wills (1854 – 1901), his manuscript A.IV.93 (label inside upper cover); purchased at his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 11-17 July 1894, lot 1330. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/169752 PEOPLE ------------------- Wills, Howell TECHNIQUES ---------- penwork TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1270 - 1280 creation date earliest: 1270 creation date latest: 1280 culture: 13th Century# CITATIONS -------- A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part One. Vol. 1: The Frankish Kingdoms, Northern Netherlands, Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Austria; Vol. II: The Meuse Region, Southern Netherlands --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/522/911/large_MS_239_f174r_mas.jpg height: 1365 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/522/911/mid_MS_239_f174r_mas.jpg height: 667 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/MS 239_f174r_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/522/911/preview_MS_239_f174r_mas.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: 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