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Corporate Author:
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Catholic Church.
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Uniform Title:
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Psalter (Ms. Free Library of Philadelphia. Lewis E 181)
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Title:
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[Gallican Psalter].
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Publication Information:
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[Flanders, ca. 1270].
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Physical Description:
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198 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 127 x 95 mm.
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General Note:
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Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment, fol. i (paper) + 198 leaves + ii (paper)
Layout: Written in 1 column of 17 lines, ruled in lead; textblock: 75 x 55 mm.
Script: Written in gothic bookhand.
Decoration: 1 full-page initial (a modern forgery); 5 large historiated initials, smaller historiated initials and figured initials (with heads) throughout; borders on three sides with zoomorphic terminals on almost every page. This manuscript belongs to the "Tweede" Group, as identified by Carlvant.
Shelfmark: Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, MS Lewis E 181.
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Contents:
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1. fol. 1v-170v: Gallican Psalter. Incipit: "beatus vir qui non abiit . . ."
2. fol. 170v-189v: Canticles.
3. fol. 190r-192r: Litany.
4. fol. 192r-198v: Office of the Dead. Explicit: ". . . in eterne claritatis gaudio fac vivere."
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Corporate Subject:
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Catholic Church Prayer-books and devotions Latin.
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Subject Term:
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Illumination of books and manuscripts, Gothic Belgium.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Gothic Flanders.
Manuscripts, Latin medieval and modern Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Psalters Belgium.
Psalters Flanders.
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Added Author:
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Lewis, John Frederick,
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Added Author:
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Tweede Group.
Free Library of Philadelphia.
Free Library of Philadelphia.
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