Description
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
Single column, 20 lines per page
Date created
[ca. 1240]
Language
Latin
Material
Vellum
Height (mm)
121
Width (mm)
90
Foliation
ff. i-ii + 1-198 + iii-iv
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 The Psalter appeared in the Sotheby sale 14th July 1937, lot 616, but seems to have been withdrawn and given to a member of the family.
Decoration
Illuminated historiated and ornamental initials and line endings. The style of all these can be compared with Parisian illumination of the mid thirteenth century as noted by C. de Hamel in The Parker Chronicle, 3, 2007, p. 13. The figure style can be compared with the later Bibles moralisées of the 1240s.
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- 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.
- Contents
- Psalter -- Canticles, Gloria and Credo -- Litany -- Prayers
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