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This fragmentary psalter was made in the thirteenth century in southern Germany. Several quires are missing from the beginning and end of the book, resulting in the loss of a large portion of the psalms, as well as most of the Office of the Dead. The manuscript itself has no decoration outside of slightly enlarged red initials. However, an ornate gilded and jewel-encrusted cover was added to the original wood boards in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century, and it is a product of that era. The only original medieval elements within this pastiche are the thirteenth-century enamels, which are of Cologne origin.
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A digital facsimile of selections fromWalters Ms. W.16, Fragmentary Psalter
Published by: The Walters Art Museum600 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21201
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This document is a digital facsimile of selections from a manuscript belonging to the Walters ArtMuseum, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscriptsthat have been digitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment forthe Humanities, and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details aboutthe manuscripts at the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's websitewww.thewalters.org. For further information about this book, and online resources for Waltersmanuscripts, please contact us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message tobe directed to the Department of Manuscripts.
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Shelf mark Walters Art Museum Ms. W.16
Descriptive Title Fragmentary Psalter
Text title Psalter
Abstract This fragmentary psalter was made in the thirteenth centuryin southern Germany. Several quires are missing from thebeginning and end of the book, resulting in the loss of alarge portion of the psalms, as well as most of the Office ofthe Dead. The manuscript itself has no decoration outsideof slightly enlarged red initials. However, an ornate gildedand jewel-encrusted cover was added to the original woodboards in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century, and itis a product of that era. The only original medieval elementswithin this pastiche are the thirteenth-century enamels, whichare of Cologne origin.
Date 13th century CE
Origin Wurzburg (?), southern Germany
Form Book
Genre Devotional
Language The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Support material Parchment
Parchment is in poor condition, with top and bottom edgesseverely damaged by water and/or fire
Extent Foliation: 61Several quires cut out at beginning and end of book; currentcondition reflected in modern pencil foliation in upper rightcorners of rectos, with occasional second number that hasbeen struck out
Collation Formula: 1(8), 2(6), 3(8,-6), 4(8,-4), 5(8,-6), 6-8(8), 9(2,-2),10(2,-2)
Catchwords: None
Signatures: None
Comments: Quire 2 composed of a bifolium with four singlesheets sewn in; quires 9 and 10 are detached, non-continuous
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folios; quires begin on fols. 1(1), 9(2), 15(3), 22(4), 29(5),36(6), 44(7), 52(8), 60(9), and 61(10); stubs from two quiresof eight remain at the beginning, and from two quires of eightand one quire of six at the end
Dimensions 14.7 cm wide by 20.9 cm high
Written surface 8.0 cm wide by 13.2 cm high
Layout Columns: 1Ruled lines: 18Ruled in dark brown ink
Contents fols. 1r - 61v:Title: PsalterText note: Text incomplete due to large groups of pagesmissing from beginning and end, and several othersmissing throughoutHand note: Formal Gothic bookhand; two sizes usedaccording to liturgical function; two scribes evident;mainly second scribe who varies size of script (e.g. fols.60r-61v: Office of the Dead)Decoration note: Enlarged red initials (2-7 lines) begineach psalm; smaller red initials (1 line) at beginning ofeach line; rubrics in red; text in black ink
fols. 1r - 38r:Title: PsalmsIncipit: ...[taber]naculis iustorum dextera Domini fecitvirtutemText note: Text begins imperfectly at the very end ofPsalm 117:15; stubs visible between fols. 13 and 14, 19and 20, 24 and 25, 33 and 34, however no text is missing
fols. 38r - 55r:Title: CanticlesIncipit: Confitebor tibi
fols. 55r - 57v:Title: Litany and collectsIncipit: Kyrie eleyson
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Text note: Notable in the litany: SS. Burchardus,Udalricus, and Pinnosa
fols. 58r - 61r:Title: Office of the DeadRubric: Vigilia.Incipit: Verba mea auribus percipeText note: Fragmentary
fols. 61r - 61v:Title: CollectsRubric: In depositione defunctorum oratio.Incipit: Quesumus domineText note: Text ends imperfectly
Decoration Upper board outside:Title: Upper board outside, nineteenth-century pastichewith authentic thirteenth-century champlevé enamelpanelsForm: Upper board outside
fol. 2v:Title: Capital "R"Form: Text page with capital "R" (2 lines)Text: Psalm 118
Binding The binding is not original.
Wood boards are original; ornate gilded metal cover is anineteenth- or early twentieth-century pastiche, with Christenthroned surrounded by Evangelists in medallions; a letterfrom Léon Gruel in states that he thought it was authentic; ca.1200 German champlevé enamel panels embedded in coverare authentic (one was removed due to condition in 1955);nineteenth-century red velvet on lower board
Provenance Created in southern Germany, possibly Wurzburg, in thethirteenth century
Léon Gruel, Paris, late nineteenth or early twentieth century
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Léon Gruelbefore 1931
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Acquisition Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Bibliography De Ricci, Seymour. Census of Medieval and RenaissanceManuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. NewYork: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935, p. 771, cat. no. 89.
Contributors Catalogers: Dutschke, Consuelo; Herbert, Lynley; Noel,William; Sciacca, Christine; Valle, ChiaraEditor: Herbert, LynleyCopy editor: Joyal, StephanieConservators: Owen, Linda; Quandt, AbigailContributors: Bockrath, Diane; Davis, Lisa Fagin; Emery,Doug; Klemm, Elizabeth; Tabritha, Ariel; Toth, Michael B.
This document is a digital facsimile of selections from a manuscript belonging to the Walters ArtMuseum, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscriptsthat have been digitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment forthe Humanities, and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details aboutthe manuscripts at the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's websitewww.thewalters.org. For further information about this book, and online resources for Waltersmanuscripts, please contact us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message tobe directed to the Department of Manuscripts.
Released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcodePublished 2013
The Walters Art Museum600 N. Charles StreetBaltimore, Maryland
21201http://www.thewalters.org/
