Holding institution title: W.68, Ramboux Psalter, Latin (1265-1275 CE, Hainaut)
Holding institution classification: Psalter
Holding institution location: Baltimore, MD
URL: https://thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W68/description.html
URL2: https://manuscripts.thewalters.org/viewer.php?id=W.68
Digitization status: Digitized
Date: 1265-1275
Language(s): Latin
Use:
Country of production: Belgium
City or region of production: Hainaut
Illumination contents: The Ascension and Pentecost in initial B, Dragon in initial Q, David before God in initial D, David before God in initial D, King Enthroned in initial Q, Fool taking a bite of bread in initial D, God blessing David in initial S, David ringing bells in initial E, Singing cleric in initial C, David Praying before God in initial D, God Enthroned in initial D, David Praying before God in initial A, David praying before God in initial C
Text contents: Psalter, Canticles, Litany, Petitions, Invocations, Collects, Hours of the Virgin
Hours intercalated?:
Personalization:
Scribe: Unknown
Illuminator: Unknown
Patron: Unknown
Materials: Parchment
Binding original?: No
Binding description: Rebound in the fifteenth or sixteenth century in Belgium; brown calf over wood boards; blind stamped; vine patterns with beasts framed by inscriptions reading from top left corner, clockwise: “Deus de[di]t/ nobis sua[m] pace[m] et/ post morte[m]/ vita[m] eterna[m] amen”; a second inscription around the panels on the right side read “Deus dedit/ deus abstulerit/ sit nome[n]/ domini benedictu[m]”; one metal clasp detached (housed separately); one knotted fore-edge tab marks the beginning of the Canticles on fol. 97; fragment of an early liturgical manuscript used for front pastedown, and pieces of two different later service books reused as flyleaves
Folio height (in centimeters): 17.3
Folio width (in centimeters): 13
