Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Psalter

Other related names

• Vremans, Anna, former owner
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 186
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1547293
• deRicci: 19

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin; Middle High German (ca. 1050-1500)

Origin

Place

Hildesheim?, Germany

Summary

This compact Psalter was produced in Germany in the mid-thirteenth century. It contains the Latin text of the Psalms, preceded by a calendar that can be localized to Hildesheim. The text of the Psalms is followed directly by the Canticles, Athanasian Creed, Litany and Collects, and an abbreviated Office of the Dead, the end of which is lacking. An unidentified Latin prayer is written in a different hand on the recto side of the final folio. The large initial B for Psalm one, depicting King David with his harp (fol. 7v), is intact, as are two further historiated initials at the habitual divisions (Psalm 38, fol. 49r; Psalm 80, fol. 97v). Early marginal notations in German and an obit in the Calendar for a certain Anna Vremans provide evidence of early ownership and use.

Notes

• Late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century binding is not original to this manuscript, but is a well-preserved example of a late medieval binding; the blind-tooled fleur-de- lis within a lozenge pattern was a typical type of decoration in the fifteenth and sixteenth century; the binding maintains its original clasps
   
• Several repairs in parchment; at least ten leaves, five of which would have contained illuminated initials, appear to be lacking: two leaves between fols. 6 and 7 (final page of calendar and an additional page); one leaf between fols. 33 and 34 (end of Psalm 25-beginning of Psalm 26); two leaves between fols. 63 and 64 (end of Psalm 50-beginning of Psalm 52); one leaf between fols. 78 and 79 (end of Psalm 67-beginning of Psalm 68); two leaves between fols. 114 and 115 (end of Psalm 96-beginning of Psalm 98); one leaf between fols. 131 and 132 (end of Psalm 108-beginning of Psalm 110); at least one leaf after fol. 194 containing the conclusion of the Office of the Dead
   
• Marginal notes in a northern German dialect
   
• An obit in the calendar for October (fol. 6r) reads: "Pie memorie obiit Anna Vr[e]mans requiescat i[n] pace"
   

Extent

195; 152 x 115 mm bound to 156 x 115

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (8, -7 -8), 2-4 (8), 5 (8, -4), 6-8 (8), 9 (8, -3 -4), 10 (8), 11 (8, -4), 12-15 (8), 16 (8, -1 -2), 17 (8), 18 (8, -4), 19-23 (8), 24 (10), 25 (10, +1 +10)

Signatures

Original signatures consisting of Roman numerals in red ink, numbered II-XXV, visible in lower center of folios: 14v, 22v, 30v, 37v, 45v, 53v, 61v, 67v, 75v, 82v, 90v, 98v, 106v, 114v, 120v, 128v, 135v, 143v, 151v, 159v, 167v, 175v, 185v, 195v

Support

Parchment

Binding

Late-fifteenth- or early-sixteenth-century, blind tooled pigskin with fleur-de-lis stamps within lozenge pattern, filleted border with rosettes, two decorated metal clasps; flush with book block

Layout

One column of sixteen lines, ruled in brown ink; written area: 103 x 78 mm

Decoration

One ten-line historiated initial (fol. 7v), two five-line historiated initials (fols. 49r and 97v), two-line illuminated flourished initials throughout, single-line initials in red, green, and blue throughout

Script

Gothic--semitextualis

Provenance

• Anna Vremans? (14th-century); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; an obituary in the calendar for October (fol. 6v) reads: "Pie memorie obiit Anna Vr[e]mans requiescat i[n] pace"
   

Related resources

• De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York,: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2028, no. 19.
• Free Library of Philadelphia, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (Philadelphia: The Free Library, 1937), p. 205, no. 186.
• Free Library of Philadelphia. Saints, Scribes, and Scholars: An Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Collections of the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia. Compiled by Satoko I. Parker, Walter A. Frankel, and Marie E. Korey (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1988), p. 9.

Keywords

• Psalter
• German
• Germany
• 13th century
• Christian
• Biblical
• Scripture
• Illustration

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Graded liturgical calendar (December lacking)
• fol. 7v — Psalter
• fol. 168v — Canticles
• fol. 182r — Athanasian Creed
• fol. 184v — Litany and Collects
• fol. 188v — Office of the Dead (end lacking)
• fol. 195r — Unidentified prayer in a different hand; incipit: Nisi dominus edificauit. Deus lampadis dictus sancte philippe... [fol. 195r]; explicit: ...martirio laureatiis gloriosus ad ...isti amen. [fol. 195r]

Decorations

• fol. 7v — Historiated initial B, King David
• fol. 8r — Illuminated initial Q
• fol. 9r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 9v — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 10r — Illuminated initial V
• fol. 11r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 12r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 13v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 14r — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 17r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 17v — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 18v — Illuminated initial U
• fol. 19r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 19v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 20r — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 21r — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 22v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 26r — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 27r — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 27v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 28v — Illuminated initial d
• fol. 30v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 31r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 32r — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 33r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 34r — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 35r — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 35v — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 38v — Illuminated initial B
• fol. 39v — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 40v — Illuminated initial d
• fol. 42r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 44r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 45r — Illuminated initial N
• fol. 47v — Illuminated initial d
• fol. 49r — Historiated initial D, King David holding a scroll
• fol. 50v — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 52r — Illuminated initial b
• fol. 53r — Illuminated initial Q
• fol. 54r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 54v — Illuminated initial d
• fol. 56v — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 57v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 58v — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 59r — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 59v — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 61r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 62v — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 64r — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 66r — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 66v — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 67v — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 68v — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 69v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 70v — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 71r — Illuminated initial N
• fol. 72r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 73r — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 73v — Illuminated initial T
• fol. 76r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 80v — Illuminated initial d
• fol. 81r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 82v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 84r — Illuminated initial q
• fol. 86r — Illuminated initial V
• fol. 87v — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 88r — Illuminated initial N
• fol. 89r — Illuminated initial U
• fol. 90r — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 95r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 96r — Illuminated initial q
• fol. 97v — Historiated initial E, King David
• fol. 98v — Illuminated initial d
• fol. 99r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 100r — Illuminated initial q
• fol. 101r — Illuminated initial B
• fol. 102v — Illuminated initial F
• fol. 103r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 104v — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 107v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 109r — Illuminated initial q
• fol. 110r — Illuminated initial b
• fol. 111r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 111v — Illuminated initial b
• fol. 112v — Illuminated initial U
• fol. 113v — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 114v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 115v — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 117v — Illuminated initial B
• fol. 119r — Illuminated initial b
• fol. 121r — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 123v — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 126v — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 129v — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 130r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 132v — Illuminated initial B
• fol. 133r — Illuminated initial L
• fol. 135r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 135v — Illuminated initial L
• fol. 135v — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 136r — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 137v — Illuminated initial b
• fol. 138v — Illuminated initial R
• fol. 139v — Illuminated initial L
• fol. 140r — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 141r — Illuminated initial B
• fol. 142r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 143r — Illuminated initial q
• fol. 144r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 145r — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 146r — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 147r — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 148r — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 148v — Illuminated initial L (x2)
• fol. 149v — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 149v — Illuminated initial N
• fol. 150r — Illuminated initial q
• fol. 151r — Illuminated initial N
• fol. 151v — Illuminated initial B
• fol. 151v — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 152r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 152v — Illuminated initial d
• fol. 153r — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 154r — Illuminated initial E (x2)
• fol. 154v — Illuminated initial L
• fol. 155v — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 156v — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 157r — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 157v — Illuminated initial d
• fol. 159v — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 160r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 161r — Illuminated initial V
• fol. 161v — Illuminated initial d
• fol. 162v — Illuminated initial B
• fol. 163v — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 165r — Illuminated initial L
• fol. 165v — Illuminated initial L
• fol. 166v — Illuminated initial L
• fol. 167r — Illuminated initial L
• fol. 167v — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 168v — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 169r — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 170r — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 171r — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 173r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 174v — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 178v — Illuminated initial T
• fol. 180r — Illuminated initial b
• fol. 181r — Illuminated initial B
• fol. 181v — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 182r — Illuminated initial N
• fol. 182r — Illuminated initial q
• fol. 184v — Illuminated initial K
• fol. 188r — Illuminated initial O (x2)
• fol. 189v — Illuminated initial N
• fol. 189v — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 190r — Illuminated initial q
• fol. 190v — Illuminated initial V
• fol. 191r — Illuminated initial h
• fol. 191v — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 192r — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 192v — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 193v — Illuminated initial D (x3)
• fol. 194r — Illuminated initial T
• fol. 194r — Illuminated initial d
• fol. 194r — Illuminated initial F