Item Summary

English psalter known as the Tewkesbury psalter.

Descriptive Information

Title
[Psalter].
Call Number
Garrett MS. 34
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc2r36vb50x
Publisher
[Oxford?], [between 1260 and 1269?]
Language
Latin
Date Created
1260-1269
Format
Manuscript
Extent
148 leaves : parchment, illustrations ; 266-272 x 180 (170 x 120) mm bound to 278 x 192 mm.
Provenance
Early provenance unknown. By the 15th century owned by the Beauchamp family. Intermediate provenance unknown. Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 purchased it from Bernard Quaritch in 1900. He put it on deposit at Princeton University Library as deposit no. 964, donating it in 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Robert Garrett, 1942.
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 32-35.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1r-6v: [Graded calendar, use of Sarum]
2. fol. 7r-123v: [Psalms 1-150]
3. fol. 123v-135r: [Ferial canticles]
4. fol. 135r-139r: [Litany, Augustinian use]
5. fol. 139r-145v: [Office of the dead, use of Sarum]
6. fol. 146r-148r: [Anglo-Normal trental]
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title devised by catalog.
Beauchamp family members' obituaries added to the Calendar in the 15th century.
Collation: Parchment ; fol. i (modern) + 148 + i (modern) ; catchwords (mostly trimmed) ; modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: 23 lines lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Numerous page markers created by making a cut along the fore-edge of the page and folding the sliced piece through a slit in the paper and back out to extend beyond the edge of the page.
Decoration: English Gothic, possibly from Oxford. Nine historiated initials. Psalms open with 2-line gold and blue initials, subsequent verses with 1-line gold, blue and red initials. Blue and red line-fillers. See the entry in Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library for detailed descriptions of the initials.
Origin: Produced in England, possibly Oxford, in the second half of the 13th century for an unidentified woman depicted on folio 123v.
Binding Note
Later binding. 16th-century, English. Brown calf over wooden boards. Blind-stamped frame containing blind-tooled lozene pattern. Metal pins in upper and lower covers are evidence of 2 clasps.

Discovery Information

Subject
Psalters—England
Catholic Church—Prayers and devotions
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
304

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/8c59ad3c-be39-40b4-95ff-c938ceaafee5/manifest