Psalms 87:12-88:41

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Saint Louis University, VFL MS 002, fol. g

St. Louis, MO

Psalms 87:12-88:41

Incipit, recto: [Numquid narrabit aliquis in sepul]//chro mi[sericordi]am tuam et v[er]itatem tuam in perditio[n]em...
Explicit, verso: ...posuisti firmamenta eius formidinem//[diripuerunt eum omnes...]

Single leaf; parchment; 275 x 200 (170 x 130) mm

Script: Gothic textualis rotunda in two columns of 30 lines.

Decoration, recto: 1 two-line initial, 23 one-line initials, two vertical bar extensions terminating in floral and foliate forms; verso: 24 one-line initials, two vertical bar extensions terminating in floral and foliate forms.

Giorgio d'Alemagna (active 1441-1479) and others

Ferrara, Italy

Latin

1441-1448

Leonello d'Este (1407-1450), Marchese of Ferrara, patron; John Allan Rolls, 1st Baron Llangattock (1837 – 1912), former owner; Bonham's Sale 12931, 25 June 2003, Lot 3021; John Windle. Cat. 44 (2008), no. 18.

Text: Psalter

John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller, Catalogue 44: Illuminations (San Francisco, CA: John Windle, 2008), no. 18.