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Psalter and prayers : [manuscript]

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ff. 17-162. [Psalter]. Latin. Psalter in biblical order, with tituli psalmorum of the Old and New Testaments. On ff. 162-176v, canticles, Te deum, Quicumque vult, Credo, Gloria, Pater noster. On ff. 176-181, litany, including Bernardinus and Leonard among monks, and Clare and Margaret among virgins. ff. 181v-182v, ruled, but blank. On ff. 183-218, Passion according to the 4 Gospels. Preceding the psalter, on ff. 1-12v, calendar in red and black including the feasts of the Translation of Anthony of Padua (15 February),"Resurrectio domini" (27 March, in red), Severus (30 April, in red),"Inventio sancti michaelis" (8 May, in red), Restituta (17 May, in red), Peter de Morrone (19 May), Bernardinus (20 May, in red), Euphebius (23 May, in red), Translation of Francis (25 May, in red), Anthony of Padua (13 June, in red),"Dedicatio sancte marie de angelis" (2 August, in red),"Festum nivis" (5 August, in red), Clare (12 August, in red), Louis of Toulouse (19 August, in red), Antoninus (2 September), Stigmata of Francis (17 September, in red), Januarius (19 September, in red),"Dedicatio sancti michaelis" (29 September, in red), Francis (4 October, in red), Agnellus (14 December, in red); later entries by 2 hands: Francis de Paola (2 April), Thomas Aquinas (8 July),"Sancta maria del carmino" (16 July; now erased), Exuperius bishop and martyr (28 September). On ff. 13-16v, list of the psalms, alphabetical in the first letter only, thereafter in the order of appearance in the psalter, with reference to psalm number. ff. 218v-235. [Prayers]. Latin; Catalan. A number of the prayers are preceded by narratives of the circumstances of composition, of discovery or of recitation; many include phrases such as"da michi famulo tuo T." presumably in reference to the book's first owner; for a prayer on f. 222, the rubric is in Catalan: La sequent oratio feu lo glorios doctor ebisbe mosser sant agosti e demana gratia ad nostro senyor . . . , Deus propicius esto michi peccatori et custos mei esse digneris . . . [Römer, i, 374]; the prayer on f. 236r-v was added in a later hand: O domine iesu christe fili dei vivi crucifixe propter hominem rogo te propter sancta vulnera tua . . .
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Date
[between 1485 and 1499]
Call number
mssHM 1064
Provenance
Written at the end of the fifteenth century, probably in Naples and under Franciscan influence to judge from the saints in the calendar. The first owner's name began with "T.": he is often included in the prayers on ff. 218v-235 by his intitial; he also may have been Aragonese, the rubric on f. 222r-v being in Catalan. Unidentified coat of arms on f. 17: azure a flower plant eradicated vert between two affronted lions or, on a chief argent a helmet sable plumed gules; the same coat of arms, lacking the charge in chief but surmounted by the plumed helmet is on f. 128v; the arms may be later additions. An erased inscription, s. XVIII (?), in the upper margin of f. 17. Said in the Bragge sale catalogue to have come from the Prince Petr Dmitrievich Soltykoff collection (not in his sale, Paris, 8 April 1861). Belonged to William Bragge (1823-84); his sale, Sotheby's, 7 June 1876, n. 119 to Quaritch. Belonged to Dr. Thomas Shadford Walker; his sale, Sotheby's, 23 June 1886, n. 346 to B. F. Stevens. Owned by Robert Hoe: Grolier Club (1892) n. 12; Cat. (1909) p. 165; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1911, pt. I, n. 2175 to G. D. Smith. Source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.
Restrictions
RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Dimensions
167 x 244 mm
Associated people
Felice, Matteo, (active 1467-1493,)
Bragge, William, (1823-1884,)
Walker, Thomas Shadford, (1834-1885,)
Stevens, Benjamin Franklin, (1833-1902,)
Hoe, Robert, (1839-1909,)
Associated organization
Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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