Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 628: Psalter (Latin)

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 628: Psalter (Latin)
Language:
Latin
Extent:
Single column, 20 lines per page
Dimensions:
121 Height (mm) and 90 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1240]
Provenance:
Presented to the College by the Rev. William Favell (Old Member, matriculated 1922) of Hove, Sussex, in April 1976, as recorded in a pencil note on f. 1r. A letter is also kept with the manuscript giving further information. He had inherited it from the estate of his cousin, Richard Vernon Favell, sheriff of Cornwall, who died in 1936. The Psalter appeared in the Sotheby sale 14th July 1937, lot 616, but seems to have been withdrawn and given to a member of the family.
Table of contents:
  • Psalter
  • Canticles, Gloria and Credo
  • Litany
  • Prayers
Description:
The Revd. William Favell, an old member of the college (matric. 1922), gave this illuminated French Psalter, CCCC MS 628, to Corpus Christi College in 1976. It was probably made in Paris c. 1240, certainly after 1234 because St Dominic, canonised in that year, is in the Litany. At the liturgical divisions of the Psalter there are eight fine full-page historiated initials. The figure style derives out of that of the artists of the Bibles moralisées made for the French royal family in the period c. 1220-40.
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