A Flemish Psalter, c.1500.

Psalter with canticles and apostles creed in Flemish with Latin rubrics. Illuminated initials. Written in the Netherlands.

Books of the Psalms were known as psalters, often also containing calendars, canticles, prayers and creeds. They were popularly used for private devotions but could also be used for liturgical purposes where all 150 psalms were to be recited each week. Depictions of King David, supposed author of many of the Psalms, frequently introduce the psalter; many of the surviving examples are richly ornamented. Psalms were also important elements of prayer books and later in books of hours.

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Presented to the library by Dr George Walker, minister of Castle Douglas [Kirkcudbrightshire], 1919.

Call number used to be ms650.

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Binding, morocco, of the 19th century. Embossed geometric
decoration on covers. Embossed on spine Liber Psalmorum, MSS Germanice.Vellum: 8X11.6cm.

Description compiled by Maia Sheridan, Archives Hub project archivist, based on material from the Manuscripts Database

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Bookseller’s label. At one time in the possession of James Walker of Aberdeen, brother to Dr George Walker. A card pasted inside the front cover states 'The gift of Mr James Walker, Aberdeen, to his brother Alexr'.

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Fully noticed in N R Ker and A J Piper Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, Vol.IV (Paisley to York), Oxford, 1992, pp.243.