W.110, The Walters Art Museum

Holding institution title: W.110, Psalter, Latin (1310-1320 CE, Flanders or French Flanders)

Holding institution classification: Psalter

Holding institution location: Baltimore, MD

URL: https://thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W110/description.html

URL2: https://manuscripts.thewalters.org/viewer.php?id=W.110

Digitization status: Digitized

Date: 1310-1320

Language(s): Latin

Use: Unknown

Country of production: France or Belgium

City or region of production: Saint-Omer or Ghent

Illumination contents: God blessing kneeling King David in initial D, King David pointing at devil in initial Q, Fool biting loaf of bread in initial D, Clerics standing at altar in initial C, King David praying at altar in initial D with owner portrait, God holding crossed orb in initial A

Text contents: Seven Verses of St. Bernard and Prayer, Liturgical Psalter, Canticles, Litany, Petitions, Collects, Added Prayers (seventeenth century)

Hours intercalated?:

Personalization: Owner portrait (female) depicted in prayer in before clerics singing at an altar on f. 132v and before King David praying at an altar on f. 136v.

Scribe: Unknown

Illuminator: Unknown

Patron: Female patron pictured kneeling on f. 132v and 136v.

Materials: Parchment

Binding original?: No

Binding description: Rebound with red velvet in Paris by Léon Gruel, late nineteenth or early twentieth century; originally sewn with five bands, re-sewn out of order with three cords; page edges re-gilded at this time; Gruel-made telescopic book box replaced by Walters conservation department 1986-87

Folio height (in centimeters): 11

Folio width (in centimeters): 8

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