Holding institution title: W.69, Psalter of St. Mary of Strasbourg, Latin (1250-1300 CE, Upper Rhineland, Germany)
Holding institution classification: Psalter
Holding institution location: Baltimore, MD
URL: https://thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W69/description.html
URL2: https://manuscripts.thewalters.org/viewer.php?id=W.69
Digitization status: Digitized
Date: 1250-1300
Language(s): Latin
Use:
Country of production: Germany
City or region of production: Upper Rhineland
Illumination contents: Annunciation, Nativity, Crucifixion, Christ in Majesty, Dragon in initial Q
Text contents: Psalter, Canticles, Pater Noster, Apostles’ Creed, Litany, Collects, Plainchant Hymn to Mary, Office of the Dead Vespers, Added Prayers (fifteenth- or sixteenth-century)
Hours intercalated?:
Personalization:
Scribe: Unknown Unknown Unknown
Illuminator: Unknown
Patron: Unknown
Materials: Parchment
Binding original?: No
Binding description: Possibly fourteenth century; beech boards covered with alum-tawed pigskin(?); pastedowns made from leaves of a thirteenth-century psalter litany; blind-tooled fillet decoration in a diaper pattern on boards, particularly visible on the lower board; brass clasp added in the fifteenth century(?); spine lettered in an eighteenth-century script, reading “Psalterium Msc. pergam. cum canticis et symbolis”
Folio height (in centimeters): 19.4
Folio width (in centimeters): 13.7
