Holding institution title: W.78, Psalter, Latin (1225-1275 CE, Augsburg, Germany)
Holding institution classification: Psalter
Holding institution location: Baltimore, MD
URL: https://thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W78/description.html
URL2: https://manuscripts.thewalters.org/viewer.php?id=W.78
Digitization status: Digitized
Date: 1225-1275
Language(s): Latin
Use:
Country of production: Germany
City or region of production: Augsburg
Illumination contents: Annunciation, Adoration of the Magi, Death of the Virgin, Crucifixion, Lion, Aquarius, Griffin, Pisces, Swan, Ariea, Plant, Taurus, Man wearing a wreath, Gemini, Man with a scythe, Cancer, Woman with a sickle, Leo, Tonsured man, Virgo, Winepress, Libra, Bunch of grapes, Scorpio, Goose, Sagittarius, Hog, Capricorn, David herping and enthroned in initial B, King Oswald in initial D, Mary Magdalene in initial D, Ascension, St. Michael slaying a dragon in initial Q, Man holding sword and cup in initial D, Dragon in initial S, David playing the bells in initial C, Last Judgment, Sts. Elizabeth and Catherine in initial D, St. Cesarius of Terracina in initial D
Text contents: Calendar, Psalter, Canticles (Biblical Canticles, Pater Noster, Apostles’ Creed, Te Deum, Quicumque Vult), Litany, Collects
Hours intercalated?:
Personalization:
Scribe: Unknown
Illuminator: Unknown
Patron: Monastery in the Diocese of Augsburg
Materials: Parchment
Binding original?: No
Binding description: Ca. 1900; purple velvet over millboard; sewn on five thin recessed cords; blind-tooled with an ivy leaf rolled border and a three-line roll formed into a saltire
Folio height (in centimeters): 22.7
Folio width (in centimeters): 15.8
