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Filename:
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cc20190605_42
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Identifier:
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cc20190605_42
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Title:
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Psalterium: fragment
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Creator:
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Catholic Church
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Subject:
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Psalters - Illustrations
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Subject:
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Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
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Subject:
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Manuscripts, Medieval
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Summary:
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Ms. This manuscript leaf is part of a collection of medieval manuscript leaves selected to illustrate the art of the manuscript during the period of its greatest development and influence. They have been taken from books written in various European scriptoria by Benedictine, Franciscan, Carthusian, Dominican, and other orders of monks. Many are enriched with handsome borders, initial letters, and line-endings rendered in color. Twenty-five are illuminated with burnished gold or silver. The texts include the Bible, various church service books, the writings of the Church fathers, and some of the Classics.
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Summary:
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In angular gothic script; gothic notation
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Summary:
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This leaf from the Book of Psalms was written in the Benedictine monastery of St. Stephan in Würzburg and dated 1499 A.D. The book hand closely resembles the fine early gothic types called lettre de forme and used by Fust and Schoeffer in their superb Psalter issued in 1457. It is known that these printers also used this type to print the Canon of the mass which was frequently sold as a replacement for the soiled and worn out manuscript pages of that text. A close examination indicates that the scribe apparently tried to imitate printing type characters in many instances. In just the same way, the first printers had copied in their designs the current local book hand. The line of music giving the "free" melody of the psalm here retains the early XIIth century staff, with the C-line colored yellow and the F-line red. These note forms are frequently called Hufnagelschrift or horse-shoe nail notation because of their resemblance to hobnails. This vellum leaf was created in Germany.
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Digital Publisher:
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Rochester Institute of Technology - RIT Libraries - Cary Graphic Arts Collection
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Contributor:
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Ege, Otto F.
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Date of Original:
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1470 approximate
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Date of Digitization:
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2019
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Broad Type:
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still image
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Specific Type:
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manuscript (documents)
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Digital File Format:
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jpeg
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Physical Format:
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books
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Dimensions of Original:
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45 x 31 cm
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Language:
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Latin
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Original Item Location:
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PORTFOLIO BOX 2-42
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Digital Project:
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2019_027_manuscripts
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Catalog Record:
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https://albert.rit.edu/record=b1426769
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Place:
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Germany - Würzburg
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Rights:
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RIT Libraries makes materials from its collections available for educational and research purposes pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. It is your responsibility to obtain permission from the copyright holder to publish or reproduce images in print or electronic form.
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Notes:
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The manuscript leaves of this collection were accumulated and selected and most of the accompanying information was prepared over a period of forty years by the late Otto F. Ege, Dean of the Cleveland Institute of Art and Lecturer on the History of the Book at the School of Library Science, Western Reserve University. Each leaf is matted and accompanied by a descriptive letterpress label.
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Other Title:
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Psalter. Fragments. Late 15th century
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