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Fragmenta Manuscripta 050: Psalter

medieval manuscript fragment in one column, brown ink, with initials in red and blue inks, and designs in red ink (recto)
medieval manuscript fragment in one column, brown ink, with initials in red and blue inks, and designs in red ink (verso)

Information About This Item

Title

Fragmenta Manuscripta 050: Psalter

Date

1240 - 1260

Description

Contents: Pss. 103, 104.
Single column with 21 lines visible, no bounding lines visible, leadpoint ruling on recto and verso (ruled separately)
Script: Gothic littera prescissa
Condition: Some evidence of cropping on all sides, but text cut away only at bottom; evidence of use in binding: 5 stiching holes across top in line (circa 30 mm apart)

Relation

M. McC. Gatch, "Fragmenta Manuscripta and Varia at Missouri and Cambridge," Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society9 (1990) 434-75.

Is Referenced By

Digital Scriptorium: https://search.digital-scriptorium.org/catalog/DS10123

Identifier

Fragmenta Manuscripta 050

Provenance

John Bagford (1650s-1716) to St. Martin-in-the-Fields; sale 1861 to Sir Thomas Phillipps, n.15758; his sale 22 May, 1913, lot 742; Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962) sale Sotheby's 3 April, 1957; William Salloch (Ossining NY) Cat. 258 (1968) to U. Missouri.

Format

Parchment - 184 x 134 mm

Language

Latin

Type

manuscript fragment

Coverage

England

Collection

Fragmenta Manuscripta Collection.

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