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Detailed record for Royal 2 B X
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| Title |
Psalter with canticles, imperfect |
| Origin |
England, S. E (London?) |
| Date |
2nd quarter of the 15th century |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Gothic |
| Decoration |
6 historiated initials with full foliate borders in colours and gold, at the beginning of certain major Psalm divisions (ff. 8, 42, 54v, 67, 97v, 113), 2 leaves with initials incised (after f. 29 and after f. 82). 'Champ' initials in gold on rose and blue grounds with penwork decoration in white and foliate extensions, at the beginning of other Psalms. Initials in red with dark blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing, at the beginning of verses. Line-filler in red and blue. The figure of God perhaps deliberately erased (f. 113). |
| Dimensions in mm |
300 x 210 (165 x 100), in one column |
| Official foliation |
ff. 157 (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end; f. 1 is a medieval parchment flyleaf) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. |
| Provenance |
The calendar perhaps of London origin: includes two feasts of Erkenwald in red (30 April, f. 3v and 14 November, f. 7).
Added prayer in Middle English by Palden: inscribed 'Ihesu amarcy one Palden' and 'Iesu that all thys worlde hath wroght / Heven and erthe ye made of nowght...', c. 1500 (f. 1).
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. |
| Notes |
Includes a calendar (ff. 2-7v). Missing leaves at the end; texts ends with the beginning of the canticle 'Magnificat anima mea dominum' (f. 157v)
According to Scott 1996, the work of the main illuminator of the Brut Chronicle, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Library of Professor Robert G. Heyneman, and perhaps of Harley Charters 51. H. 6.
Catchwords in decorated ink frames, bifolium signatures. |
| Select bibliography |
George F. Warner and Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1921), I, p. 48.
R. H. Bowers, 'Palden's Middle English Prayer', Literary and Historical Notes, (1951), 134 (p. 134).
Kathleen L. Scott, Later Gothic Manuscripts 1390-1490, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 6, 2 vols (London: Harvey Miller, 1996), pp. 168, 216, 217, 224, 225. |
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f. 8
David |
f. 8
David |
f. 42
David and Goliath |
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f. 54v
Anointing of David |
f. 67
Triumph of Saul and David |
f. 67
Triumph of Saul and David |
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f. 97v
David |
f. 113
Trinity |
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