Holding institution title: W.25, Premonstratensian Psalter
Holding institution classification: Psalter
Holding institution location: Baltimore, MD
URL: https://thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W25/description.html
URL2: https://manuscripts.thewalters.org/viewer.php?id=W.25#page/1/mode/2up
Digitization status: Digitized
Date: 1175-1225
Language(s): Latin
Use: Premonstratensian (Office of the Dead), perhaps Augustinian use (two mentions of Augustine and multiple prayers to the trinity in litany)
Country of production: Germany
City or region of production: Rhineland
Illumination contents: Men playing instruments in initial B, Dragon in initial D, Dragon in initial D, Man Battling Dragon in initial Q, Man Pointing in initial D, Man Battling Dragon in initial S, Dragon in initial D, God the Father and God the Son in initial D, Bust of Isaiah in initial C
Text contents: Prayer to the Virgin, Liturgical Psalter, Canticles, Hymns, Creeds, Litany, Petitions, Collects, Office of the Dead, Collects, Prayers, Hymns, Creeds, Gospel Sequence, Added Prayer
Hours intercalated?:
Personalization:
Scribe: Unknown; two sizes of script in Office of the Dead
Illuminator: Unknown
Patron: Made for a female supplicant (indicated by gender of speaker in prayers)
Materials: Somewhat yellowed parchment; uneven weight, ranging from thin to thick
Binding original?: No
Binding description: Sixteenth-century German beech boards, originally covered in brown leather; re-covered in green velvet in the nineteenth century by Léon Gruel, Paris; clasp and catch plates are sixteenth century, poorly refitted
Folio height (in centimeters): 21.3
Folio width (in centimeters): 13.8
