#ferial psalter

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This is Ms. Codex 1057, a Ferial Psalter. All one hundred and fifty Psalms were recited each week during the Divine Office, and were gathered into books called Psalters. Psalters that also include antiphons, responses and other prayers, together with rubrics indicating the offices, are known as Ferial Psalters. This one was copied in Italy, probably Trento, around 1350, although the binding is not original - it’s a late 16th-century blind-stamped pigskin with two brass clasps.

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In medieval monastic houses, all one hundred and fifty Psalms were recited each week during the Divine Office, and were gathered into books called Psalters. Psalters that also include antiphons, responses and other prayers, together with rubrics indicating the offices, are known as Ferial Psalters. This one was copied in Italy, probably Trento, around 1350, although the binding is not original - it’s a late 16th-century blind-stamped pigskin with two brass clasps. It has some neat marginalia featuring dogs chasing prey. (Ms. Codex 1057)

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Today's #MiniatureMonday is this little 14th century Italian Psalter. The 'miniature' in this case is an inhabited initial and marginal decorations, in part illustrating the hunt (look for dogs, the fox and a rabbit in the bottom margin) This is a Ferial Psalter - in addition to the psalms, it includes antiphons and other prayers. (Ms. Codex 1057)

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Ms. Codex 1057 - [Ferial psalter]

This manuscript is a ferial psalter, containing the psalms divided into eight sections: seven for the psalms for matins through the week and the eighth containing all the psalms for vespers, accompanied by indications of invitatories, antiphons, hymns, short chapter readings, and concluding with canticles, a litany, and prayers. The psalter is preceded by antiphons and hymns added in the 16th century and a 14th-century liturgical calendar including the feast day of Vigil, Bishop of Trent, and 17th-century entries for the deaths of members of the community of the abbey of Saint Walburga. It was possibly written in Trento (Italy), starting with the year 1350 CE.

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Reach, reach, just a bit further! A bit of drollery combined with a more serious inhabited initial creates something just lovely on folio 132v of Ms. Codex 1057, our Ferial Psalter. See more at Penn in Hand: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4087611

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Omnomnom, a yummy inhabited initial from Ms. Codex 1057, a Ferial psalter, containing the psalms divided into eight sections. It was probably written in Trento, ca. 1350. 

See the complete manuscript at Penn in hand: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4087611