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Country Malta Library of Congress Authorities VIAF
City Rabat Library of Congress Authorities VIAF
Repository Wignacourt Museum Library of Congress Authorities VIAF
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 Library of Congress Authorities VIAF
Title Psalter
Uniform Title Psalter VIAF
Alternate Title Psalter (Carthusian)
Language(s) Latin
Country Malta Library of Congress Authorities VIAF
City Rabat Library of Congress Authorities VIAF
Repository Wignacourt Museum Library of Congress Authorities VIAF
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 Library of Congress Authorities VIAF
Title Psalter
Uniform Title Psalter VIAF
Alternate Title Psalter (Carthusian)
Language(s) Latin
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