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Beinecke MS 1194
Germany, [between 1450 and 1499]
Psalter (incomplete).
In Latin.
81 l. : parchment ; 120 x 90 mm.
- This material is open for research.
- 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.
- Purchased from R. A. van der Graven on the John W. Corwith Memorial Fund, 2014.
- 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.
- 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).
- Binding: modern.
- Psalter (Incomplete). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library,
Yale University.
Subjects:
- Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven.
- Nuns -- Germany.
- Nuns as artists -- Germany.
- Psalters.
- Manuscripts, Medieval -- Germany -- 15th century.
- Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.