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PSALTER, with Calendar, Canticles etc, in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Brabant or Hainault, c.1280] 130 x 90 mm, i + 229 + i leaves, the calendar and final, unwritten, leaf unfoliated, pencil foliation from beginning of Psalter, 1-223 followed here: 1 5(of 6, lacking vi), 1 9(ix a singleton), 3-27 8, 28 2(unwritten, structure unclear), 29 1 0, 30 3, signatures, 17 lines in black ink written in a gothic bookhand between two verticals and 18 horizontals, the first and last two lines extending across the page, ruled in brown, justification: 76 x 33mm, vertical prickings on some calendar leaves, a different scribe added ff.221v-223v with rubrics and one-line initials in red, text capitals touched red, otherwise rubrics in red, one-line initials alternately blue flourished with red and gold flourished with blue, line-endings in varied patterns of red and blue, two-line initials of burnished gold alternately with blue infills decorated with white leaf stems on red grounds, or red infills on blue grounds, one five-line initial with entwined scrolls in burnished gold with pink infill on a blue ground with white decoration, one four-line initial in burnished gold with blue infill patterned with white on a pink ground, NINE LARGE HISTORIATED INITIALS six to eight lines high with staves of blue and/or pink with white decoration with foliate terminals on grounds of pink or blue, framed in burnished gold extending into the margins, and with burnished gold infills as backgrounds to the scenes, ONE FULL-PAGE HISTORIATED INITIAL with staves of blue and pink with white decoration with foliate or beast head terminals, on a ground of blue patterned with pink and white above, and of pink patterned with white below, framed in burnished gold, infill of burnished gold as background to scenes, stitching holes from lost guards over historiated initials, four last lines of f.143v erased and verses 5-8 of Ps.113 written in a different hand in brown ink with more thickly flourished initials, additions and corrections in some margins, ferial annotation written vertically down outer margin f.30, fifteenth-century hand repeated verse 6 of Ps.51 at the top of the page (early repair to outer margin f.22, small tears to outer margins of ff.99, 117, 125, smudging to some two-line initials, rubrics on opening folio rubbed, slightly cropped). Modern brown morocco. PROVENANCE: 1. The Calendar (lacking November and December) is indicative of the southern Netherlands. It does not conform to the Liège Calendar, although it includes many of the canonised bishops of Maastricht-Tongeren: Servatius (13 May), Gundulf and Monulf (16 July), Remacle (3 Sept), Theodard (10 Sept), the red line through Lambert (17 Sept) may indicate that his feast should have been written in red, Severinus (3 Oct); other feasts are associated with Hainault: Aldegund (30 Jan), Waudru (9 April), Amalberga (9 July); and with Brabant: Gudula (8 Jan), Gertrude (16 March), Foillan (31 Oct), suggesting a possible association with the bishopric of Cambrai, chief patron Géry appearing (11 Aug). The commemoration of Amand on 26 Oct, his ordination and translation, might suggest a particular association with the abbey of St Amand near Tournai; St Firmin (25 Sept) and St Quentin (31 Oct) are also included. The Litany shows some similarities with Liège books, notably with Lambert, Gereon, Amand, Gertrude and Oda, but Aldegund is also invoked as is Bavo, particularly revered in Ghent (J. Oliver, Manuscript IIllumination in the diocese of Liège ). The Office of the Dead is very close to that recorded for Brussels; Ottosen lists one instance of this sequence of responses as an unidentified use from a manuscript of 1200-1220 with Quaritch ( The Responsicles and Versicles of the Latin Office of the Dead , 1993, p.176). 2. The added Psalter of the Virgin has some rubrics in Dutch, f.233. CONTENT: Calendar, lacking November and December, ff.i-v; Psalter ff.1-182v; Canticles ff.182v-200v; Litany an