

Country |
Malta
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City |
Rabat
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Repository |
Wignacourt Museum
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Common Name | Wignacourt Psalter |
Current Status | In situ |
Type of Record | Manuscript |
Extent | 246 leaf(ves) |
Century(ies) | 14th century |
Language(s) | Latin |
Genre(s) | Psalters |
Feature(s) | Border(s), Decorative; Decoration, Zoomorphic; Illumination; Initial(s), Decorated; Initial(s), Historiated; Marginalia; Music |
Notes |
Lacking calendar. Possibly copied in Liège or Maastricht based on the inclusion of Saint Lambert, Bishop of Maastricht, and Saint Servatius |
Bibliography |
Martina Caruana, "A Contextual Analysis of the Illuminated Psalter at the Wignacourt Collegiate Museum in Rabat," in At Home in Art: Essays in Honour of Mario Buhagiar, 235-255 (2016). |
HMML Proj. Num. |
WGM 00001 |
Permanent Link | https://w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/view/132981 |
Processed By | HMML |
Acknowledgments | Cataloged by Martina Caruana |
Surrogate Format | Digital |
Access Restrictions | Registered |
Rights | http://www.vhmml.org/terms |

Type of Record | Manuscript |
Extent | 246 leaf(ves) |
Binding Dimensions | 11 x 8.5 cm |
Provenance |
Ownership mark in French of Jean Messieu on fol. 246r |
Condition Notes |
Imperfect: wanting one quire plus additional leaves |
Type | Manuscript |
Place of Origin | Flanders (?), Liège (?) |
Century(ies) | 14th century |
Year Range | 1350-1400 |
Support | Parchment |
Page Layout | 1 column, 13-14 lines per page ; 2 columns for the litany; pricking and ruled in plummet; first line written above horizontal bounding line |
Writing Space | 6 x 4.8 cm |
Signatures | Yes |
Writing System | Roman |
Script(s) | Gothic Textualis |
Decoration |
Four-line initial "Q" of King David and the Devil, fol. 76r; 165 2-3 line illuminated initials, some outside text block extending into margins; 1-line litterae florissae in red and blue ink, often featuring penwork into zoomorphic figures in margins; penwork line fillers with geometric decoration |
Notes |
Music notation on two-four staff-lines; music notations accompanied by a fere-textualis and hybrida cursiva script date to the fifteenth century |

Author |
Catholic Church
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Title | Psalter |
Uniform Title | Psalter VIAF |
Alternate Title | Psalter (Carthusian) |
Language(s) | Latin |

Country |
Malta
![]() |
City |
Rabat
![]() |
Repository |
Wignacourt Museum
![]() |
Common Name | Wignacourt Psalter |
Current Status | In situ |
Type of Record | Manuscript |
Extent | 246 leaf(ves) |
Century(ies) | 14th century |
Language(s) | Latin |
Genre(s) | Psalters |
Feature(s) | Border(s), Decorative; Decoration, Zoomorphic; Illumination; Initial(s), Decorated; Initial(s), Historiated; Marginalia; Music |
Notes |
Lacking calendar. Possibly copied in Liège or Maastricht based on the inclusion of Saint Lambert, Bishop of Maastricht, and Saint Servatius |
Bibliography |
Martina Caruana, "A Contextual Analysis of the Illuminated Psalter at the Wignacourt Collegiate Museum in Rabat," in At Home in Art: Essays in Honour of Mario Buhagiar, 235-255 (2016). |
HMML Proj. Num. |
WGM 00001 |
Permanent Link | https://w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/view/132981 |
Processed By | HMML |
Acknowledgments | Cataloged by Martina Caruana |
Surrogate Format | Digital |
Access Restrictions | Registered |
Rights | http://www.vhmml.org/terms |
Type of Record | Manuscript |
Extent | 246 leaf(ves) |
Binding Dimensions | 11 x 8.5 cm |
Provenance |
Ownership mark in French of Jean Messieu on fol. 246r |
Condition Notes |
Imperfect: wanting one quire plus additional leaves |
Type | Manuscript |
Place of Origin | Flanders (?), Liège (?) |
Century(ies) | 14th century |
Year Range | 1350-1400 |
Support | Parchment |
Page Layout | 1 column, 13-14 lines per page ; 2 columns for the litany; pricking and ruled in plummet; first line written above horizontal bounding line |
Writing Space | 6 x 4.8 cm |
Signatures | Yes |
Writing System | Roman |
Script(s) | Gothic Textualis |
Decoration |
Four-line initial "Q" of King David and the Devil, fol. 76r; 165 2-3 line illuminated initials, some outside text block extending into margins; 1-line litterae florissae in red and blue ink, often featuring penwork into zoomorphic figures in margins; penwork line fillers with geometric decoration |
Notes |
Music notation on two-four staff-lines; music notations accompanied by a fere-textualis and hybrida cursiva script date to the fifteenth century |
Author |
Catholic Church
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Title | Psalter |
Uniform Title | Psalter VIAF |
Alternate Title | Psalter (Carthusian) |
Language(s) | Latin |
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