CHOIR PSALTER, use of the Dominicans, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum [southern Germany] 1476 A dated German Choir Psalter decorated with charming initials in gold and scrolling penwork, in a 16 th -century Frankfurt binding. 160 x 120mm. iii (paper) + 197 + iii (paper) leaves 1-17 10 , 18 9 (of 10, viii a cancelled blank), 19 10 , 20 8 , complete, 18 lines of text, music on 4-line staves, ruled space: 118 x 80mm, initials in red or blue throughout, large initials with music often inhabited by faces, one illuminated and 8 large decorated initials opening the divisions of the Psalms. 16th-century German calf over wooden boards with roll decoration, probably by Thomas Drechsler of Frankfurt (scuffed, rubbed and worn, spine flaking away, lacking one brass clasp) Provenance : (1) The colophon on f.197 dates the manuscript to 1476. The manuscript was intended for Dominican use, with Sts Dominic and Catherine of Siena repeated twice in the Litany. The saints also include Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor and his wife Cunigunde (especially venerated in Bamberg), Sebald (Nuremburg), and Elizabeth of Hungary or of Thuringia (Marburg), indicating a southern German provenance. (2) The binding is German and 16th century, with repeating rolls of saints above cartouches holding the text ‘Tu es Petrus et’ (Matthew 16:18), ‘Apparuit benignitas’ (Titus, 3:4), ‘Ecce Agnus Dei’ (John 1:29) and ‘Data est mihi o[mnis]’ (Matthew 28:18). These exact same rolls are attested on an Avicenna owned by Adam Lonicer bound by the Frankfurt binder Thomas Drechsler in or after 1560 (now at the Sibbald Library, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh) and a Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum published in Frankfurt by the heirs of Christian Egenhoff in 1582 (Princeton, RA775 .xR4 1582). (3) Sporadic 16th or 17th-century marginal annotations in German. (4) Note in an 18th-century german hand inserted loose. Content : Prayers, including the Our Father, Hail Mary and Credo, doxologies and invitatories ff.1-4; Psalter, with large initials at the 8 liturgical divisions for Psalms 1, 26, 38, 52, 68, 80, 97 and 109 and an extra initial for Psalm 21 opening the Prime psalms on f.26v, with noted responses, verses and antiphons, ff. 4-167v; Ferial canticles (including Benedicite, Te Deum and Benedictus) and Litany ff.167v-186; a set of 9 orations ff.186-7; hymns and antiphons ff.184v-197. The illuminated initials is on f.4; the decorated initials are on ff. 26v, 31v, 47v, 62, 77, 95, 112 and 129.
CHOIR PSALTER, use of the Dominicans, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum [southern Germany] 1476 A dated German Choir Psalter decorated with charming initials in gold and scrolling penwork, in a 16 th -century Frankfurt binding. 160 x 120mm. iii (paper) + 197 + iii (paper) leaves 1-17 10 , 18 9 (of 10, viii a cancelled blank), 19 10 , 20 8 , complete, 18 lines of text, music on 4-line staves, ruled space: 118 x 80mm, initials in red or blue throughout, large initials with music often inhabited by faces, one illuminated and 8 large decorated initials opening the divisions of the Psalms. 16th-century German calf over wooden boards with roll decoration, probably by Thomas Drechsler of Frankfurt (scuffed, rubbed and worn, spine flaking away, lacking one brass clasp) Provenance : (1) The colophon on f.197 dates the manuscript to 1476. The manuscript was intended for Dominican use, with Sts Dominic and Catherine of Siena repeated twice in the Litany. The saints also include Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor and his wife Cunigunde (especially venerated in Bamberg), Sebald (Nuremburg), and Elizabeth of Hungary or of Thuringia (Marburg), indicating a southern German provenance. (2) The binding is German and 16th century, with repeating rolls of saints above cartouches holding the text ‘Tu es Petrus et’ (Matthew 16:18), ‘Apparuit benignitas’ (Titus, 3:4), ‘Ecce Agnus Dei’ (John 1:29) and ‘Data est mihi o[mnis]’ (Matthew 28:18). These exact same rolls are attested on an Avicenna owned by Adam Lonicer bound by the Frankfurt binder Thomas Drechsler in or after 1560 (now at the Sibbald Library, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh) and a Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum published in Frankfurt by the heirs of Christian Egenhoff in 1582 (Princeton, RA775 .xR4 1582). (3) Sporadic 16th or 17th-century marginal annotations in German. (4) Note in an 18th-century german hand inserted loose. Content : Prayers, including the Our Father, Hail Mary and Credo, doxologies and invitatories ff.1-4; Psalter, with large initials at the 8 liturgical divisions for Psalms 1, 26, 38, 52, 68, 80, 97 and 109 and an extra initial for Psalm 21 opening the Prime psalms on f.26v, with noted responses, verses and antiphons, ff. 4-167v; Ferial canticles (including Benedicite, Te Deum and Benedictus) and Litany ff.167v-186; a set of 9 orations ff.186-7; hymns and antiphons ff.184v-197. The illuminated initials is on f.4; the decorated initials are on ff. 26v, 31v, 47v, 62, 77, 95, 112 and 129.
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