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f. 1 blank; ff. 1v-196v. [Psalter]. Latin. Loss of one leaf after f. 27 (Ps. 26, 1-8) and after f. 41 (Ps. 36, 26-40). On ff. 177v-195v, canticle and Quicumque vult; on ff. 195v-196v, litany, ending defectively; included are Livin among the martyrs; Bavo, Macarius, Landoald, Wandregisil, Gudwal, Donatianus, Basilius as the first 7 of 18 confessors; Amalberga, Gertrude, Bridget, Pharaildis and Adelgundis among the virgins. Title from printed catalog. Support: Parchment. Script: Gothic. Layout: 1⁸(+1) 2-3⁸ 4⁸(-3 after f. 27) 5⁸ 6⁸(-2 after f. 41) 7-12⁸ 13² 14-25⁸ 26⁴(-4). Quires and leaves signed with letters and roman numerals in red ink, visible in quires 4 (a) and 17 (b). 18 long lines, ruled in lead with double bounding lines to the left of the text; slash pricking in the 3 outer margins; double pricking marks at the penultimate line. Decoration: Full page historiated initial, f. 1v, of David playing his harp in the upper bowl of the B, and David slaying Goliath in the lower; initial itself in white-patterned pink, with ""-eatus vir"" in white capitals on the blue frame edged in gold. 8 other historiated initials, 10- to 8-line, in blue or pink on grounds of gold and the other color, with slightly cusped bar borders of both colors the length of the text, sometimes including grotesques; leaf missing after f. 27, presumably with historiated initial for Ps. 26 (blue offset on f. 27v). Other Decoration: 3- and 2-line initials in gold infilled in pink or blue against a ground of the other color and bar border of gold and both colors; 1-line gold versals, placed outside written space, occasionally corrected by 1-line red initials in the margin. Small holes across the top of the leaves with historiated initials suggest former presence of sewn-in protective cloths. Assigned Date: s. XIVin. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/31/2012. Cataloged from existing description: C. W. Dutschke with the assistance of R. H. Rouse et al., Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, 1989). Bound, s. XV/XVI, in Flanders in brown calf over bevelled wooden boards, each cover stamped with 2 impressions of a panel (63 x 40 mm.) with a marginal legend interrupted at each corner by a flower: ""Sit nomen domini benedictum ex hoc nunc et usque in seculum""; in each of the 2 internal compartments of the panel are 3 animals enclosed within the curves of a vine stem; space between the panels filled with 4 impressions of a 13 mm. square tool of a flower within a lozenge; quite worn and rebacked; gilt edges. HM 1050. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Written in the beginning of the fourteenth century in Flanders, presumably for use in Ghent, to judge by the saints in the litany. Belonged to Herschel V. Jones (1861-1928) of Minneapolis; his sale, Anderson, New York, 29 January 1919, pt. II, n. 1070 to G. D. Smith. Date and source of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.
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