Holding institution title: W.35, Psalter, with added Office of the Dead and litany, Latin (1270-1280 CE, Bruges-Ghent)
Holding institution classification: Psalter with additions
Holding institution location: Baltimore, MD
URL: https://thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W35/description.html
URL2: https://manuscripts.thewalters.org/viewer.php?id=W.35
Digitization status: Digitized
Date: 1270-1280
Language(s): Latin
Use:
Country of production: Belgium
City or region of production: Bruges or Ghent
Illumination contents: Man drinking from a bowl, Woman holding a candle for Candlemass, Pruning, Cloaked child, Falconing, Man carrying a bundle of wood, Mowing, Reaping, Sowing seed, Harvesting grapes, Gathering acorns, Slaughtering a pig, Seated apostle in initial D, Seated apostle in initial D, Seated apostle in initial D, Seated apostle in initial D, Seated apostle in initial S, Seated apostle in initial E, Seated apostle in initial C, Seated apostle in initial D, Seated apostle in initial D
Text contents: Calendar, Liturgical Psalter, Canticles, Original Litany, Petitions, Collects, Added (fourteenth-century) Litany, Petitions, Collects, Prayer to Christ, Added (fourteenth-century) Office of the Dead
Hours intercalated?:
Personalization:
Scribe: production from the Bruges-Ghent region
Illuminator: Unknown
Patron: Originally a liturgical psalter, converted in the fourteenth century for an English owner, possibly a cleric, through the addition of a second litany focused on English saints and an Office of the Dead
Materials: Parchment
Binding original?: No
Binding description: Late-nineteenth or early twentieth-century red velvet; likely by Léon Gruel in Paris
Folio height (in centimeters): 22.4
Folio width (in centimeters): 16.6
