Psalterium,

This material is held atNational Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

Reference
- GB 210 NLW MS 21877B [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
Alternative Id.
Dates of Creation
- [c. 1230x1250].
Language of Material
- Latin.
Physical Description
- v, 171 ff.; the leaf before f. 1, most of f. 41 and a leaf after f. 110 were probably removed for their illumination; two leaves after f. 11 and two after f. 166 are also wanting :Parchment ;173 x 122 mm. (written space 120 x 75 mm.).Re-bound at NLW in 1983 re-using covers of calf binding of seventeenth century with royal Stuart arms, gilt.Some leaves wanting.Some leaves wanting.
Location
- ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

The vulgate text of the psalter written in Paris, [c. 1230x1250], by one excellent hand and corrected by two others, one of whom wrote the cancels ff. 145 and 152-3, the other, who corrected one quire only, wrote the cancel f. 134. There are seven 8-line historiated initials, for psalms 26, 51, 52, 68, 80, 101 and 109; leaves now wanting probably bore those for psalms 1, 38 and 97 which would have completed a common sequence of illustrated psalms (cf. R. Branner, Manuscript painting in Paris in the reign of Saint Louis (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1977), p. 20). The initials, in colour on burnished gold ground, and other lavish decoration of the book are of high quality. The figures all appear to be the work of one hand, very close in style to Branner's 'Dominican Group', notably his 'third master' (op. cit., pp. 59-60).