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          Psalter, in Latin, with calendar and canticles; Middle English
     carol and Old French chanson. Flanders; 4th quarter of the 13th
     Century.

     ff. 1r - 6v    Calendar

     ff. 7r - 144r    Psalms

     ff. 144r - 157v    Canticles

     Parchment. i (parchment) + 157 + i (parchment). 142 x 97 mm. 1 column,
     21 lines.

          I (6 + 1), II-XIX (8), XX (10), XXI (6 leaves). Lacks IV (7); VIII
     (3, 6); IX (8); XII (1, 8); XIII (8); XV (8); and at least one folio
     between quires I and II (calendar and Psalms).

          Gothic script. Gold, blue and rose initials used for chapter
     headings, blue and red alternate for verse headings; one half-page
     initial on f. 43r at Psalm 39. Six other half-page initials have been
     cut from the manuscript, before folios 29, 56, 67, 83, 96, and 111. 12
     illustrations in the calendar, representing the different occupations
     of the month. Rubrications in certain listings in the calendar. Bound
     in dark brown calf skin over pasteboards (sixteenth or seventeenth
     century).

          Purchased from Laurence Witten, 1965 (Catalogue 5, lot 47).
     Bequest of James M. Osborn, 1976.

          Comment: On the calendar page for December, St. Thomas of
     Canterbury's name has been erased from its place, indicating English
     ownership at least in the sixteenth century. The back flyleaf has, in
     two fourteenth century hands, a French song "Une bon chanson ay troue"
     and a Middle English carol "Mayde and moder, glade thou be." The front
     flyleaf has musical exercises in the same hand as the English carol.

     Bibliography:

     Cvetko, Dragotin, ed. Report of the Tenth Congress of the International
     Musicological Society, Ljubljana, 1970, pp. 304-5.

     Greene, Richard L. The Early English Carols, Oxford, 1976, p. 335.

     "Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at Yale: A Selection," Yale
     University Library Gazette 52 (1978) pp. 192-93, no. 20.

	 
	 
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