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Psalter

Dimensions: 14 leaves ; 28.5 cm x 20.5 cm.
Call no: Ms. Codex 002487
Gift of the Friends of the Library and purchase on the Benz Fund.

Description

Fourteen leaves (five bifolia and four single leaves reattached to form bifolia) of a French psalter, ca. 1160-1180. Written in a fine romanesque hand in one column of 16 lines, it contains 11 large initials in gold, red, and blue. Each verse begins with a red or blue initial and there are line fillers present. There are additions to the text in a fifteenth-century gothic hand of the Netherlands and notes in Dutch.

folio 1, recto    folio 1, verso

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