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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. Widener 9)
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Title:
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[Psalter-Hours : use of Amiens].
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Publication Information:
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[Amiens, France, ca. 1270].
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Physical Description:
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241 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 188 x 125 mm.
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General Note:
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Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment, fol. i (parchment) + 241 leaves + i (parchment)
Layout: Written in 1 column of 20 lines, ruled in lead; textblock: 120 x 80 mm.
Script: Written in gothic bookhand.
Decoration: 13 full-page miniatures; 17 historiated initials with framing bars, some inhabited; 24 roundels (in calendar) and illuminated initials and line-fillers throughout.
Shelfmark: Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, MS Widener 9.
The hands of two artists have been determined. The artist of the prefatory cycle and psalter also illuminated a psalter in the collection of the Comte de Boisrouvray (sold at auction Sotheby's, London, July 6, 2000, lot 77), as well as a manuscript of Chretien de Troyes in Princeton, University Library, Garrett 125, and a book of hours in Baltimore, The Walters Art Museum, W. 86. Two other manuscripts have been attributed to the second artist: Le Mans, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS 354, and Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, MS fr. 342).
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Contents:
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1. fol. 1v-12r: Prefatory cycle with scenes from the life of Christ.
2. fol. 13r-18v: Calendar for use of Amiens, in French.
3. fol. 19v-195r: Psalter with Canticles.
4. fol. 195v-199r: Litany.
5. fol. 199r-205r: Office of the Dead.
6. fol. 206r-v: Blank.
7. fol. 207r-233v: Hours of the Virgin.
8. fol. 234r-214r: Seven Penitential Psalms.
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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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Manuscripts, Latin Medieval and modern Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Gothic France.
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Added Author:
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Widener, Joseph E.
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Added Author:
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Free Library of Philadelphia.
Free Library of Philadelphia.
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