IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 169756 accession number: MS 248 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, i medieval parchment flyleaf + 200 fols. + i medieval parchment flyleaf, 128 x 100 (78 x 56) mm, 17 long lines, ruled in plummet, leaves lost before fol. 1 and after fol. 200. BINDING: Early sixteenth-century, brown leather over wooden boards, sewn on five supports, blind-stamped panel with oak-leaf border and inhabited scroll with birds, harpy and mermaid, two metal pins and remains of two leather straps on upper cover, two catchplates on lower cover, green, red and yellow endbands, the top one carried over spine, repaired and re-bound by Robert Proctor, Fitzwilliam Museum, 1994. CONTENTS: fols. 1r – 179v Psalter, Gallican (begins imperfectly); fols. 179v – 196v Canticles and Quicumque vult; fols. 196v – 199r Litany; fols. 199v – 200r Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (addition); fol. 200v Pange lingua gloriosi prelium certaminis (addition, ends imperfectly). DECORATION: Eight historiated initials in white-patterned pink or blue on gold grounds, with extensions forming three-sided borders and incorporating birds, animals, hybrids and grotesques: fol. 27v Psalm 26, [D, 10 ll.] David pointing to eyes before God; fol. 45v Psalm 38, [D, 10 ll.] David pointing to tongue before God, peacock in border; fol. 62r Psalm 52, [D, 10 ll.] Fool with club and cake before God blessing; fol. 78v Psalm 68, [S, 9 ll.] David in water and God above; fol. 99r Psalm 80, [E, 10 ll.] David playing bells, ape-bishop in border; fol. 118r Psalm 97, [C, 9 ll.] Clerics singing at lectern; fol. 121r Psalm 101, [D, 10 ll.] David praying at altar, God’s hand blessing above, grey owl in border; fol. 138v Psalm 109, [D, 9 ll.] Throne of Mercy Trinity. ORNAMENTATION: Gold initials [3 ll.] on white-patterned blue and dark pink grounds extending into border for ordinary Psalms; gold one-line verse initials within blue or dark pink bands with white foliate ornament extending full length down the text column; gold, blue and red geometric line-fillers. title: psalter NOTES ----- type: history note value: partially trimmed notes in Middle Dutch written in fourteenth-century hand in lower borders of fols. 65r, 66r, 68r, 75v, 78v, 96v, 105r, 106v, 158r, 200r; pencil inscriptions ‘15336 / giu’ and ‘No. 12’ inside upper cover; purchased for the Museum from H. Chadwick in 1895. 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/169756 PEOPLE ------------------- Chadwick, H. TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1270 - 1299 creation date earliest: 1270 creation date latest: 1299 culture: 13th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Proctor, Robert EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum: An exhibition to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Death of the Founder, Richard, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion. CITATIONS -------- Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum: An Exhibition to Commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the Death of the Founder, Richard, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion Thirteenth-Century Illumination in Bruges and Ghent A Descriptive Catalogue of the Additional Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Musuem Acquired between 1895-1979 (excluding the McClean Collection) Leaves of Gold : Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections 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 ---