W.70, The Walters Art Museum

Holding institution title: W.70, Misbound liturgical Psalter, Latin (1200-1250 CE, Constance, Germany)

Holding institution classification: Psalter

Holding institution location: Baltimore, MD

URL: https://thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W70/description.html

URL2: https://manuscripts.thewalters.org/viewer.php?id=W.70

Digitization status: Digitized

Date: 1200-1250

Language(s): Latin

Use: Cistercian

Country of production: Germany

City or region of production: Constance

Illumination contents: Jewish priest in initial D, Apostle in initial D, Apostle in initial N, Fool holding a club in initial D, Jewish priest in initial C, Jewish priest in initial A, Jewish priest in initial C, Apostle in initial Q, Jewish priest in initial B, Deacon in initial D, Apostle in initial D, Apostle in initial C, Apostle in initial C, Jewish priest in initial E, King David in initial C, Jewish priest in initial D, Apostle in initial Q

Text contents: Psalms, Canticles, The Lord’s Prayer, Apostle’s Creed, Athanasian Creed, Litany, Petitions, Collects, Added Meditation on the Passion (late-thirteenth century)

Hours intercalated?:

Personalization:

Scribe: Unknown- suggest was possibly Cistercian

Illuminator: Unknown

Patron: Unknown

Materials: Parchment

Binding original?: No

Binding description: Late nineteenth-or early twentieth-century binding by Léon Gruel, Paris; red velvet over millboard(?); page edges are gilded

Folio height (in centimeters): 22

Folio width (in centimeters): 15.3

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