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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 185)
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Title:
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[Lewis Psalter].
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Publication Information:
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[Paris, ca. 1225-1240].
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Physical Description:
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191 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 228 x 160 mm.
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General Note:
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Ms. codex.
Title from Leaves of gold.
Collation: Parchment, fol. 191 + i (paper)
Layout: Written in 1 column of 20 lines, lead point ruling; text block: 148 x 84 mm.
Script: Written in gothic bookhand.
Decoration: 25 full-page miniatures (prefatory cycle + initial B.) 24 roundels in calendar. 8 large (+/- 8 lines) historiated initials, smaller (3 line) historiated initials beginning with each psalm (including divisions in Ps. 118) and canticles throughout. Flourished and illuminated initials, illuminated line endings with marginal extensions throughout. Some inhabited margins. This manuscript is a member of Robert Branner's Leber Group.
Shelfmark: Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, MS Lewis E 185.
Several entries indicate usage in northwestern or central France, esp Savianus (Aug. 25; first archbishop of Sens), Amatus (Sept. 13) and Bercharius (October 16), both celebrated at the Abbey of Sens. Several English saints suggest possible English ownership: Cuthbert (March 20; graded), Abbani (Albanus) (June 22; graded), Suithuni (Swithun) (July 2), Edmund (November 20). Lacking important English saints like Dunstan (May 19) and Oswald (August 5). Litany includes English saints Oswald, Edmund, Edward, Augustine, Cuthbert, Dunstan, Frideswida, and Ethelrida, indicating possible English usage.
Fol. 1 has been removed from its original position preceding fol. 32r and attached to the upper wooden board of the binding.
Two additional prayers (fol. 2r and fol. 191v) have been added in fifteenth-century cursive hand.
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Contents:
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fol. 2v-25r: Prefatory cycle.
fol. 26r-191v: "[text] Beatus vir qui non abiit in consilio impiorum . . . omnium delictorum suorum veniam consequant."
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Summary:
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The Lewis Psalter consists of the following: The prefatory cycle containing 48 scenes from the Life of Christ, from the Annunciation to the Last Judgment (fol. 2v-25r) and the Gallican Psalter, which includes a Calendar (fols. 26r-31v), Litany (fols. 188v-191r), and Two Prayers (fols. 191r-v.)
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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 France Paris.
Manuscripts, Latin Medieval and modern Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Psalters France Paris.
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Added Author:
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Lewis, John Frederick,
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Added Author:
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Free Library of Philadelphia.
Free Library of Philadelphia.
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Electronic Access:
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LEWIS E 185 |
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