Folium from a Medieval Psalter, Fragment
Type: Fragment
Date: 15th century
Setting: City
Produced By/For: [unknown]
Contents: Devotional: Psalter
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.15
Location: Shelf 02/J/16c (Acc. 1994-013, Item #1)
Description
From the Medieval Folia Collection
Folium from a medieval Psalter
- Vellum, 125 x 90mm (77 x 62mm)
- Latin text in Gothic script (littera minuscula gothica textualis semi-quadrata formata) ruled in ink for a single column of writing.
- Psalter, Psalm 90:12-91:2
- Flemish (Ghent?), c. 1450-1460
- Decoration consists of the following: gilded litterae notabiliores pen-flourished in blue alternating with similarly pen-flourished letters of blue and red; a single gilded initial B on a cusped rectilinear ground in rose and containing white-highlighted blue in-fill; the head of the B extends into a partial rectilinear foliate bar border in gold, blue, and rose, from which issue gilded ivy leaves with pen-drawn tendrils; the upper and lower margins contain foliate borders, comprised of gilded ivy leaves with tendrils and other naturalistic elements in green, rose, and blue; line-fillers in blue and gold.
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