![]() ![]() Gall, are also in the calendar, although not in red. The feasts of Erhard, bishop of Regensburg, Kilian, bishop of Würzburg, and Magnus, a monk from St. Gall (16 November), and Conrad, bishop of Constance (26 November), as is Ulric, bishop of Augsburg (4 July). Gall (16 October), Othmar, the first abbot of St. The calendar is graded with twelve lessons for major feasts, and includes numerous Benedictine saints including Maurus, Scholastica, three feasts in honor of Gregory (in red), and two in honor of Benedict himself. Gallen, in the middle of the fifteenth century, c. Evidence of the calendar indicates that this was made for use in a Benedictine monastery in Southwestern Germany in the diocese of Constance, or in Switzerland, perhaps St. ![]() The darkened lower outer corners of many of the pages in this manuscript are a direct link to the monks who used this book centuries ago for their daily prayers. Especially striking is the tree-like form used to decorate one of the computistc tables. These decorative initials were executed by artists of considerable skill. Dimensions 100 x 80 mm.Ī tiny gem of an illuminated Psalter, this volume is notable for its very small size, the fineness of its script, and the vivid colors of its illuminated initials and borders. Bound in sixteenth-century blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards with two clasps, fastening back to front, spine with three raised bands, green and white head and tail bands, scattered wormholes especially on upper board, a bit worn with small areas of loss to leather at edges, but overall in good condition. 82), illumination occasionally slightly rubbed, outer corners often very dirty. 45 and 56, heavily cropped, affecting the ‘KL’ letters in the calendar and the illuminated borders, short strip of illuminated border pasted to the bottom of last leaf (f. I (parchment) + 82 +i (parchment) on parchment, modern foliation in pencil top outer corner, lacking at least one leaf at the end (collation i-iv 10v 8vi-viii 10 ix 4), calendar very faintly ruled in ink(?), otherwise no discernible ruling (justification 72-70 x 54-52 mm.), written in a very small, uniform hybrida script in 31-33 long lines, red rubrics, 1- and 2-line red or blue initials, 4- to 9-line larger red or blue initials with pinkish-purple pen flourishing including foliage decoration, and occasionally grotesque and zoomorphic figures (listed below), two with partial borders of scrolling foliage, 10 large initials formed of light-colored fleshy acanthus on red, blue, green, pink, purple, or finely pounced burnished gold, infilled with contrasting colors in the same, on contrasting square grounds with partial borders of delicate scrolling foliage terminating in flower buds often with long stamens, ONE LARGE FULL-PAGE INITIAL of burnished gold pounced with small flowers, infilled with fleshy acanthus in light colors on blue, on a dark reddish purple ground with white tracery, the remaining letters of the word written below the initial, with a full foliage border, ONE CIRCULAR DIAGRAM with a tree-like acanthus growing from its center, original holes in the parchment, ff.
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